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Intense Winds May Have Doomed Plane

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 4, 2009 9:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Extremely high winds may have set off a chain reaction of mechanical problems that took down Air France Flight 447, the Wall Street Journal reports. The series of automated messages sent by the plane, typically intended to alert maintenance crews to mundane issues, reveal a...   Read full story »

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