Air France Flight 447 - Blue Ice?

LuckyBogey's Blog ^ | June 21, 2009 | LuckyBogey

[luckybogey]

Starting on Sunday, June 21, 2009, I expect more news coming out of Paris and the le Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses (BEA). The “big tent” for the “le cirque” came down on the Paris Air Show Saturday night and the French press/media restrictions on Air France Flight 447 will be most likely be lifted by the Euro/French government.

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) and Navy have been doing a great recovery operation under difficult sea conditions. I don’t expect the additional recovery of any significant wreckage or remains. Brazilian families of Flight 447 are sequestered in the Guanabara Hotel in Rio and their public and media access is being controlled by Air France management. It is my understanding that as of this date, the Brazilian medical examiners have not given full access to the French authorities to these medical examinations.

From the FAB photos yesterday, Row 42 was the only visible seating that I was able to identify from the wreckage. Additional clues are starting to trickle out with the evening article from Le Journal du Dimanche quoting an informed source saying:

“one of the avenues explored by the BEA is a leak in a waste water circuit of the device, reported shortly after take-off by a first automated message warning”

Now this is were the “leakage” problem starts to become very interesting after takeoff. Obviously, Air France, BEA, and the French Government have looked over the history string of warning/maintenance messages from ACARS for this aircraft. Note 2245 first reported problem with toilet:

[luckybogey]

Posted in Blogger Section. I have translated the article from Le Journal du Dimanche if interested.

[parsifal]

I got part way thru it.The toilet waste water froze and ruptured the plane?

parsy, who got lost in the fobs

[HapaxLegamenon]

Sounds like a polite way of saying that the Airbus was a piece of sh**.

[silverleaf]

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