Where a Brit goes to take a quat
Posted on 04/03/2011 2:06:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Wreckage from Air France jet found in Atlantic
Wreckage from an Air France jet lost over the Atlantic nearly two years ago with 288 people on board has been found, French investigators say.
With the cause of the crash still unknown, a fourth attempt to locate the plane's voice and data recorders got under way last month.
Searchers located wreckage during the past 24 hours, investigators in Paris said, without giving details.
Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris came down in a storm on 1 June 2009.
A French judge recently filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France over the crash.
Airbus, the maker of the jet, says no one can know for sure how the crash occurred unless the so-called "black boxes" are found.
The search has been financed jointly by Air France and Airbus. It involves dives to depths of up to 4,000m (13,120ft) with the use of special robots to examine the ocean floor between Brazil and West Africa.
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Yes, but what, exactly, is a quatloo? What defines it? *Helicopter Ben starts to squirm in his seat*
Latinum is "real" money.
What percentage of flights operated with Airbus equipment end experience fatal accidents?
A quatloo is a monetary unit on the planet Triskelion which was used by the planet’s Providers to bet on drill thrall competitions. (Star Trek Original Series: “The Gamesters of Triskelion”)
Wow, as a teenager watching Star Trek reruns this was my dream girl! Way hot. glad they finally found the Air France flight, watched the Nova special on this so should be interesting to see if they were correct in their assessment.
Ha! Just as I thought. All non-latimun-backed quatloos eventually go the way of Zimbabwe.
That was a very informative post. Thanks.
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.
It wasn’t atypical. There is a record of Airbus pitot tubes freezing up and flight system crashes. 20 plus. There was a program in place that was replacing them.
Huh???
“It involves dives to depths of up to 4,000m (13,120ft) with the use of special robots to examine the ocean floor between Brazil and West Africa.”
It’s that nice they narrowed down the search area so much.
I’ll stick to Federation credits.
Mandatory carpet matches drapes inquiry?
It’s pretty astonishing that they located this wreckage given the area they were searching. Hopefully they can find the black box.
Where a Brit goes to take a quat
So, basically, not a real “pilot error” situation.
Don't have off-hand John Cox's video link on this. John Cox described in detail on Discovery or NOVA, can't recall, the most logical sequence of events and simple pilot error was not a factor.
Wrong input by the jet matched by correct pilot input based upon best (wrong) available input, does not equal pilot error.
Because Boeing is flying the most jets.
Airbus has system failures that can cause a crash, that can prohibit pilot control to save a jet. So, Airbus fly-by-wire is another link in the mishap chain that Boeing does not have.
I get the Star Trek reference. Tell me though, how does it apply here ?
What a business model. Let's be completely careless and not only neglect to maintain a 100 million dollar plane, and kill our customers and employees. Oh, and let's control the weather, too.
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