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Air France crash: plane may have broken up in mid-air
Telegraph UK ^ | June 3, 2009 | By Henry Samuel in Paris

Posted on 06/03/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The vast area over which debris has been found suggested there was an explosion while the aircraft was in flight.

Unnamed experts quoted by the Le Monde newspaper said the "wide dispersion of wreckage discovered suggests that the Airbus (A330-200) exploded at high altitude".

Terrorism has not been ruled out but they said the most likely scenario was that the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane.

If such depressurisation had occurred at high altitude, passengers would have almost certainly fallen instantly unconscious and may have been unaware of the their fate.

Professor Philippe Juvin, head of casualty at Beaujon hospital west of Paris, said: "It would have been as quick as the moment when one falls asleep."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airfrance; aviation; planecrash; terrorism
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1 posted on 06/03/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must have been one of those lighting strikes that blows up airliners...


2 posted on 06/03/2009 10:32:24 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Yeah it was a wire shorting out in the fuel tank ... and I’m the easter bunny


3 posted on 06/03/2009 10:34:18 AM PDT by clamper1797 (FUBO ... MUSLIM protege of the unholy union of Karl Marx and affirmative action)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

No, it was the friction of a wire rubbing against the fuel tank that caused a spark that actually was able to penetrate the fuel tank, that caused the explosion.


4 posted on 06/03/2009 10:34:28 AM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster...


5 posted on 06/03/2009 10:34:36 AM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

The instant they mentioned a 3 mile spread of debris, all my questions were answered.


6 posted on 06/03/2009 10:34:38 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: LikeLight

how long until Al Gore and CNN emerge blaming Global Warming..


7 posted on 06/03/2009 10:36:49 AM PDT by heiss
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a crock.


8 posted on 06/03/2009 10:37:02 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: heiss
From the linked article:

One anonymous Air France pilot suggested that a bomb could "very well" be the cause of the crash. He said: "One can very well imagine that a bomb caused the aircraft's depressurisation and that the plane took time to break up. It could just as well have been a big bomb that blew up the entire plane, which would explain why the aircraft didn't have time to send an alert signal."

9 posted on 06/03/2009 10:37:33 AM PDT by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Has anyone heard if any passengers contacted loved ones?


10 posted on 06/03/2009 10:37:41 AM PDT by roses of sharon (We must get a grip on what we can, and hold on. Hold on with energy, imagination, and ferocity)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Practically brand-new airplanes don't "blow-up" at altitude without some kind of intervening action or cause.
11 posted on 06/03/2009 10:38:10 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

:Massive depressurization...” just another way of saying having the holy crap blown out of you. We are so afraid to consider the possiblity of terrorism that we allow ourselves to be lulled to sleep.


12 posted on 06/03/2009 10:38:53 AM PDT by the long march
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Islamic bombs will cause that to happen.


13 posted on 06/03/2009 10:39:45 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (The great object is that every man be armed. - Patrick Henry)
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To: LikeLight
"Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster..."

LOL - Yeah, someone needs a new PR firm if they think the best "story" to put out there is that the plane "magically" blew-up, in flight and at attitude. Somehow, I don't think that's going to be a comfort to the flying public.

14 posted on 06/03/2009 10:40:04 AM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Mine too though I suspected it from the very first time I heard the weather theory.


15 posted on 06/03/2009 10:40:19 AM PDT by b4its2late (I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Terrorism has not been ruled out but they said the most likely scenario was that the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane.

Spontaneous depressurisation?

16 posted on 06/03/2009 10:40:27 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: PetroniusMaximus
There must have been some kind of explosion or catastrophic break up. But no one is claiming “credit” for this. Hmmm.
17 posted on 06/03/2009 10:40:56 AM PDT by colorado tanker ("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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To: LikeLight
One anonymous Air France pilot suggested that a bomb could "very well" be the cause of the crash.

Have any terrorist groups claimed credit? Terrorism doesn't work if no one knows it was terrorism.
18 posted on 06/03/2009 10:41:23 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: PetroniusMaximus
The instant they mentioned a 3 mile spread of debris, all my questions were answered.

By which, I presume, you mean to imply it was terrorism.

As for me, I could see that sort of spread taking place as a result of the fact that the plane was at 35k feet, in a line of severe thunderstorms.

The breakup can be explained by the turbulence reported by the pilots; the spread of debris can be explained by altitude, speed, and stuff getting caught in updrafts.

The string of automated failure messages was spread over several minutes, which seems more consistent with an explanation of gradual structural failure.

19 posted on 06/03/2009 10:42:20 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

That very same flight received a bomb threat two days earlier.


20 posted on 06/03/2009 10:42:33 AM PDT by Reagan69 (No Representation without Taxation !)
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