[Dallas59]

1500 quatloos anyone?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Now we are going to hear Gaddafi did it so they can rush in the ground forces and kill him.

[NWFLConservative]

"With the cause of the crash still unknown.......Airbus, the maker of the jet......."

Sounds to me like the cause if the crash IS known.....AirBUST.

[Blueflag]

Officially, so far, the ‘findings’ blame the pilots and their training.

Essentially the pilots encountered atypical icing conditions after flying into bad tropical weather (thunderstorms) which caused the flight computers to “give up” flying the aircraft on autopilot.

When the crew took over, they APPARENTLY (deduced from telemetry) operated the controls in a manner that put the aircraft outside the controlled flight envelope, lost control of the aircraft, and the plane ‘flat spun’ onto the surface of the ocean like a frisbee. Forensics on bodies and aircraft structures recovered indicated ‘vertical compression’ which led investigators to conclude the pancake impact.

NOW ... if we have the FDRs we can work with more than a few cryptic telemetry signals and forensics.

Personally I think the pilots will NOT be exonerated, but, this was a situation they did not (apparently) adequately train on. Blame Air France. OTHER airbus aircraft and flight crews have emerged successfully on the other side of similar instrumentation/flight computer malfunctions.

Also, other aircraft with the old pitot tubes like this ship have had failures that the crew handled.

When fly by wire fails on cruise/autopilot, the crew has seconds to save the aircraft; apparently that did not happen.

**IF** real data can be retrieved, it’ll answer a LOT of questions and stop a lot of conjecture.

[krb]

I thought they already figured it out. Pitot tubes super-freezing up.

[BerryDingle]

With the cause of the crash still unknown.......Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris came down in a storm.

I'll bet the storm caused it.

A French judge recently filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France over the crash.

Is that common in France over accidents?

[Cementjungle]

With the cause of the crash still unknown...

A French judge recently filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France over the crash

Huh???

[eartrumpet]

“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.

[NittanyLion]

It’s pretty astonishing that they located this wreckage given the area they were searching. Hopefully they can find the black box.