Posted on 07/02/2009 7:59:58 AM PDT by luckybogey
The BEA press conference has finished in Paris. I watched on TV however I dont speak French and Im not sure at this time what they have told us. If anything new? I did not hear any mention of the toilet leak? Sounds like total BS out of Air France and BEA? As first reported on this site on June 21, 2009 from Le Post: Was Air France Flight 447 Disaster Caused By Leaking Toilet! As shown below, we need to be careful on translation from one language to another...
The aircraft was not destroyed in flight, said Alain Bouillard, head of the BEA survey at a press conference at Le Bourget, near Paris . The aircraft appears to have struck the water line of flight with a strong vertical acceleration, he added with a report prepared on the initial investigation...
Mr. Bouillard has noted that had found no life jackets inflated, an index that shows clearly that the passengers were not prepared for a landing. Part of the crew rest room has been found, impact marks indicating that something came from the bottom up to the top.
Again, as a sign of the vertical acceleration he was mentioning, the official said thatthe bucking of one of the retrieved LDMCR walls showed a force acting from the bottom up
...From the La Depeche article (English Translation): According to one informed source, the first would have shown a water leak in the toilets, undetectable by the crew at the time of takeoff. The extended cash flow would gradually permeated the composite structure of the aircraft which, in contact with the temperature of high altitude would have frozen, causing sudden breakage of the aircraft in flight...
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Reports of naked bodies found, now reports that plane impacted water intact.
Something is fishy in Paris.
“...struck the water line of flight...”
Didn’t know “flights” had “water lines”.
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