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Air France Flight 447 stories: 42 news summaries

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(AP) - A French investigator says Air France Flight 447 did not break up in flight but plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean. Alain Bouillard, leading the investigation into the June 1 crash for the French accident investigation agency BEA, also says life vests found among the wreckage of the plane were... More »

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 Computer Crash 
 May Have Doomed 
 Air France Flight 

Crash raises questions on if today's pilots can cope with computer failure

Jun 27, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators trying to piece together the fate of Air France Flight 447 in the absence of its black boxes are focusing on possible computer failures, the Wall Street Journal reports. The evidence suggests a problem with the sensors quickly snowballed into widespread computer outages, leaving the crew struggling to manage... More »

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(Newser) - Brazil's Navy and Air Force gave up their search for Air France Flight 447 victims today, citing the difficulty of finding bodies and wreckage 25 days after the crash, Reuters reports. "It's already been nine days without seeing any bodies," a Brazilian officer said. French ships will remain,... More »

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 Airbus Glitches 
 Probed on 2 
 New Flights 

Cockpit sensors failed in same model as crashed Air France jet

Jun 26, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal investigators are probing two recent incidents in which speed and altitude sensors malfunctioned on Airbus 330s, USA Today reports. The failures, one on a Northwest Airlines flight and one on Brazil's TAM Airlines, are similar to those being investigated in the crash of an Air France A330 earlier this... More »

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 Air France Pilot's Body Found 


Jun 25, 09 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The body of the pilot of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 has been recovered, Reuters reports. A pilots union identified him as Marc Dubois, a 58-year-old Frenchman who had 21 years of experience at the airline. A male steward also was identified. More... More »

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Bolivian TV's Flight 447 Photos Actually From Lost

News program apologizes after gaffe

Jun 23, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In what was either a bizarre prank or heinous gaffe, a Bolivian TV station broadcast two photographs last week from the ABC series Lost as exclusive photos from the final moments of Air France Flight 447, the Telegraph reports. The first shows passengers in an aircraft cabin using oxygen masks,... More »

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 Signals Detected, but Officials 
 Deny They're Flight 447's 

Submarine sent to probe ocean floor

Jun 23, 09 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers are hot on the track of signals picked up deep in the Atlantic that could be from one of Air France Flight 447's black boxes, Le Monde reported today, but a French official denied that the signals could be originating from the doomed plane's flight recorder. “The black... More »

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(AP) - Bodies recovered in the Air France disaster show multiple fractures in the legs, hips, and arms, a Brazilian official said today. Experts said such injuries suggest the plane broke up in the air, and a spokesman for Brazilian medical examiners said autopsies on some of the 50 bodies recovered so... More »

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 I Know What 
 Happened to 
 Flight 447: 
 Trump 

Posts theory on his blog about 'plastic rudders'

Jun 16, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Trump: entrepreneur, reality show host, airline safety investigator. The real estate mogul has a friend who makes handcarts out of the same material the Airbus 330 rudders are made of, so the Donald has a theory about Air France Flight 447, the New York Post reports. More »

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(Newser) - All of Air France’s long-haul Airbus jets have had their airspeed sensors replaced, AFP reports. A pilots union says the airline accelerated its program to switch out questionable pitot tubes on A330s and A340s. Though the circumstances are unknown, some think a faulty sensor could have caused Flight 447... More »

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(Newser) - Autopsy reports indicate that Air France flight 447 did not crash because of a terrorist strike, the Independent reports. Examinations of the first 16 bodies—all recovered whole—show no signs of explosion, fire, or penetration by shards of metal. The autopsy details, leaked to the Brazilian press this weekend,... More »

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 6 More Air France Bodies Found


Jun 13, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six more bodies from Air France Flight 447 have been found, bringing the total to 50 even as authorities contemplate an end date for the search, the AP reports. Warm ocean water in the search area will speed up the sinking of bodies and attract feeding marine life, experts note,... More »

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(Newser) - Three families of victims in the Air France crash have signed on as plaintiffs in a manslaughter probe into the Air France crash, reports the BBC. Under French law, they'll now have access to investigative files. The Paris prosecutor launched the probe last week, which is routine in such cases.... More »

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(Newser) - An Italian woman who cheated fate when she missed her flight on the doomed Air France jet has been killed in a car crash, the London Times reports. Johanna Ganthaler and her husband were late to the Rio airport on May 31 and caught another flight the next day. The... More »

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Two on Flight 447 Labeled Terror Threats

Investigators find passengers on French list of radical Muslims

Jun 10, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two people on board crashed Air France Flight 447 were on a French list of radical Muslims seen as terror threats, London’s Evening Standard reports. French security officials sent to Brazil discovered the passengers’ status; a security insider called the terror link “highly significant,” though it could... More »

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(Newser) - A French nuclear submarine has joined the search for Air France Flight 447’s black boxes, ABC News reports. The sub boasts high-tech sonar equipment, which could help detect the acoustic signals the flight recorders transmit. The sub will work alongside a French research vessel set to arrive Friday, carrying... More »

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(Newser) - A French airline-workers union has urged Air France crews to boycott long-haul Airbus jets until new speed sensors are installed, the Times of London reports. “To prevent a repeat” of the Flight 447 disaster, the Alter union said, “we call on flight deck and cabin crew to refuse... More »

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 Air France Tail Found 


Jun 8, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(AP) - Brazilian searchers found a large tail section from an Air France jet today, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that could help narrow the search for Flight 447's black boxes. A US Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data... More »

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 15 More Bodies 
 Found at Crash Site 

Searches also find large amount of aircraft wreckage

Jun 8, 09 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Searchers have recovered 15 more bodies from the Air France 447 crash site in the Atlantic, bringing the total to 17. Brazil's military also collected large amounts of the plane's "structural components," officials tell Reuters. "Hundreds of items are being found and being stored until we know... More »

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 Air France Changes 
 Airbus Speed Sensors 

Icing concerns fueled replacements beginning last month

Jun 7, 09 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Air France is speeding up the process of replacing sensors on its Airbus planes following the crash of Flight 447, the BBC reports, a process it began in April. In May of last year, Air France said, it observed a “small number” of “incidents of loss of airspeed... More »

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