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AF 447: Inflight disintegration
Le Figaro ( via Google Translate) ^ | 6.3.09 | Delphine Chayet and Cyrille Louis

Posted on 06/03/2009 9:38:04 PM PDT by libh8er

To advance this hypothesis, the experts note that the debris is scattered, sometimes separated by more than 300 km.

Two days after the disappearance of the Airbus A 330 Air France in the middle of the Atlantic, experts have a first index material to show that the aircraft disintegrated in high altitude. Tuesday, the first conducted a survey in fact shows that the dispersion of debris at sea is very wide. "You can see fragments of more than 300 km from each other," says a source close to the technical investigation. Subject to further information, the first element calls for an explosion that would affect the aircraft in flight. "If it were to be confirmed, such an disintegration at an altitude of about 10 000 meters could be explained both by the action of an exceptionally violent weather phenomena, plausible in the intertropical convergence zone used by the flight by a sudden depressurization or a terrorist attack.

Four working groups

To investigate the disaster, the experts of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) argue for hours not favor any scenario despite the ample evidence already collected. Wednesday, new debris, including a metal 7 meters in diameter and a record of kerosene by 20 km, in addition to seat and an orange buoy already found Tuesday, were detected by the Brazilian Navy.

On Monday evening, two investigators assisted by two representatives of Air France and Airbus took off for Brazil. In addition, four working groups were formed to focus respectively on the research at sea, the aircraft maintenance, operations and equipment. "We already have much information and we are now working to analyze their relevance in the understanding of the event," says the Director of BEA, Paul-Louis Arslanian, who adds: "My goal is to deliver a first report of By the end of June "Refusing to interpret this stage to the cascade of warning messages Acars transmitted by the aircraft shortly before the crash, Mr. Arslanian merely clarified Wednesday that the pilot of flight AF 447 referred "severe turbulence" during his last contact with the Brazilian air controllers. Turning to the history of the aircraft, he noted: "There is no evidence that the aircraft had a problem before the start."

Without concealing that it will probably be very difficult to locate the two black boxes from the aircraft by the deep stretching in the area of the crash, Mr. Arslanian finally conceded: "The investigation is likely to be long and I can not exclude that it is ultimately unable to reach a total certainty. "Meanwhile, the floor of Paris was taken yesterday of the investigation before announcing the opening of a judicial inquiry. > swap


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1 posted on 06/03/2009 9:38:05 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

thanks.


2 posted on 06/03/2009 9:41:18 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: libh8er

TWA flight 800 - Jack Cashill proved it was brought down by a rocket. You have to think it was a terrorist bomb. Everybody is being so quiet!


3 posted on 06/03/2009 9:42:35 PM PDT by ncfool
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To: GOP Poet

300 kilometer = 186.4114 miles

(I had to look that up so thought I would save someone else the trouble.)


4 posted on 06/03/2009 9:42:59 PM PDT by Tomato lover (Believe on the Lord Jesus now; too late may come too soon!)
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To: Tomato lover

:-). Thanks. LOL.


5 posted on 06/03/2009 9:44:20 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: ncfool

isn’t is amazing how physics change so dramatically starting in the year 2001.


6 posted on 06/03/2009 9:46:26 PM PDT by GoreNoMore
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To: KeyLargo; alfa6; Aeronaut
More theories for the yet to be explained.

No joy.....ping
7 posted on 06/03/2009 9:46:44 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
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To: Tomato lover
That cannot be right - maybe 30 km. If there were a thermonuclear device exploded on board it wouldn’t scatter debris that far.
8 posted on 06/03/2009 9:50:01 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

If it broke up in a thunderstorm imagine how far lightweight material would be blow as it falls 35,000ft.


9 posted on 06/03/2009 9:51:42 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: stormer

Don’t forget ocean drift amidst stormy weather.


10 posted on 06/03/2009 9:51:49 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Straight Vermonter
No question that things can be blown far, but they still have to be big enough to be found. I just can't imagine parts light enough to float reacting so differently.
11 posted on 06/03/2009 10:00:15 PM PDT by stormer
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To: libh8er

I can see certain flotsam having more of a sail - but 180 miles?


12 posted on 06/03/2009 10:23:10 PM PDT by stormer
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To: libh8er

Some people think it could not have been a bomb because fuel was left.

However depending where the bomb was and what it was designed to do, it may never have had to touch the fuel. All that may have been needed was to blow a big hole into the skin of the aircraft, and cause enough structural damage to rip the thing apart.


13 posted on 06/03/2009 10:28:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Tomato lover

Thank’s dude. LOL.


14 posted on 06/03/2009 10:44:37 PM PDT by 506Lake
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To: stormer

It’s realistic, consider that upon disintigrating at 35,000 plus feet, there will be plenty of debris that is light enough, has a high enough velocity and shape to get a glide slope of 20 or so to 1. That would put stuff out 140 miles...


15 posted on 06/03/2009 11:29:27 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: libh8er

While offering that there WAS an earlier bomb threat; no one saying what else may have been said; like what group may have made the warning and/or without providing details; if this info was even provided.


16 posted on 06/04/2009 12:11:11 AM PDT by cricket ('Don't bow for me . . Obama ' (America's 'sorry' President))
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To: libh8er
"On Monday evening, two investigators assisted by two representatives of Air France and Airbus took off for Brazil."

So what are the chances these folks flew on a Boeing aircraft to Brazil?

17 posted on 06/04/2009 12:35:16 AM PDT by SERE_DOC (Today's politicians, living proof why we have and need a second amendment to the constitution.)
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To: libh8er
I've seen this scenario somewhere before... an aircraft approaches a lightning storm then disappears.... Hmmmmmmmm??????

I got it!!

Romulans


18 posted on 06/04/2009 5:08:06 AM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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To: libh8er

My gut feeling says it was a SAM that took it out, possibly from offshore. Though I think the security may not be as intense as flights in the US I still think it would be too difficult to smuggle a bomb on board because if that were the case this would be happening more often.


19 posted on 06/04/2009 5:13:00 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: ncfool

I will never forget how Rushbo supported the theory that the Fuel Tanks ignited and I think it was because his Buddy with the FBI was heading up the investigation of TWA 800. After the Sheeple were convinced the head FBI investigator retired and started with an independant security agency.


20 posted on 06/04/2009 5:16:32 AM PDT by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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