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 ...
Must have been one of those lighting strikes that blows up airliners...
Yeah it was a wire shorting out in the fuel tank ... and I’m the easter bunny
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.
Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster...
The instant they mentioned a 3 mile spread of debris, all my questions were answered.
how long until Al Gore and CNN emerge blaming Global Warming..
What a crock.
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."
Has anyone heard if any passengers contacted loved ones?
: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.
Islamic bombs will cause that to happen.
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.
Mine too though I suspected it from the very first time I heard the weather theory.
Spontaneous depressurisation?
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.
That very same flight received a bomb threat two days earlier.
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