Doomed Air France plane was not destroyed in flight

Washington Post ^ | 2 July 2009 | N/A

[Erik Latranyi]

PARIS (Reuters) - The state of the wreckage from Air France flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which crashed on June 1 with 228 people on board, suggest the plane was not destroyed in mid-air, French investigators said on Thursday.

Alain Bouillard, who leads the investigation on behalf of France's BEA air accident board, said the search for the flight recorders, or black boxes, from the Airbus A330 aircraft would continue until July 10.

[Erik Latranyi]

Getting interesting....back to rudder separation theories.

[DuncanWaring]

So the theory now is nominally-controlled flight into the water with no radio declaration of emergency?

I don’t think so.

[IYAS9YAS]

What about the fact that the bodies they found were stripped of their clothing? Didn’t that indicate they were basically exposed to the outside air at high speed?

[jws3sticks]

I like the phrase seen a few days ago on a related posting: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"

I have never liked the Airbus planes, especially in a "cross wind" landing. It was like flying on the top of one of those electronic bull riding machines.

[militant2]

It wouldn’t matter if they found bomb fragments or notes praising Ally Akbar for their martydom.......we would never hear the true story through the MSM anymore. Afterall, is-slum is the religion of peace!

Militant

[Vermont Lt]

Yeah, and flight 800 went down because of a bare wire in the gas tank. Yeah, that happened.

[Carley]

Actually it was the center fuel tank.

[Erik Latranyi]

If AF447 went nose-first into the water, they would not have recovered the pilot’s body....it would have been little pieces.

Something does not smell right about this entire investigation.....right from the begininng.

I fear this was a test-run for a new explosive used by Al Qaeda....who is keeping quiet until they can roll this out on a grander scale....perhaps Sept 11 2009?

It would be consistent with hitting Bush in his first few months.

[Travis T. OJustice]

“Zoom climb” and all that. Good stuff for a work of fiction.

[mreerm]

didn’t early reports say that wreckage was found in 2 separate areas?

[Jonah Hex]

Tagged for monitoring. On the face of it this finding doesn't makes sense, based on the wreckage scatter (especially the tail/rudder combo dozens of miles away from the main body), the state of the bodies, the sudden commo drop, etc. I'd like to see more on this.

I really want to see what, if anything, NTSB contributes since they're acting as an interested party (U.S. engine manufacturer).

[Blogger]

agreed. something isnt right.

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.

[Jewbacca]

I always been of the mind that they had some sort of emergency, stopped paying attention to altitude and flew into the ocean.

It’s a more common error than one would think.

[mad_as_he$$]

My current theory (with no inside info) is a fire or explosion in the avionics bay which could of taken the radio out.

[Erik Latranyi]

I don’t believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.

I don't believe you.

[TalonDJ]

I don’t believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.

I don't believe you.

I think you are both lying.

[DuncanWaring]

...stopped paying attention to altitude and flew into the ocean.

"Controlled Flight Into Terrain" is certainly far-too-common, thus the rise of the Ground Proximity Warning System industry.

But that sort of thing doesn't happen from seven miles up.

[paulycy]

I think you are both lying.

Liar.