Wreckage from Air France jet found in Atlantic {2009 crash, Flight 447}

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: BBC

Wreckage from an Air France jet lost over the Atlantic nearly two years ago with 228 people on board has been found, French investigators say.

With the cause of the crash still unknown, a fourth attempt to locate the plane's voice and data recorders got under way last month.

Searchers located wreckage during the past 24 hours, investigators in Paris said, without giving details.

Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris came down in a storm on 1 June 2009.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12953432

[WheelWalker]

1. No way. This is news.

[tabatha]

2. I hope they find the box and the cause.

That was a huge tragedy.

[FLPanhandle]

3. As a very frequent flyer, I hate unsolved plane crashes

This one is weird. That far out they had to pretty high and the plane should be designed to handle the stresses of a storm.

Somewhere there is a design flaw in this Airbus. Hope they can figure it out.

[joshcryer]

4. NOVA did a documentary on this, you can watch it online here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/crash-flight-447.html

Highly recommended. They really figured out about 85-90% of what happened by the automated message data.

[FLPanhandle]

7. Thanks. I just finished watching it.

Amazing that all that technology and one of the oldest, most proven, and simplest device, the pitot tubes failed them

[XemaSab]

5. I was wondering about this the other day

:(

[Blue_Tires]

6. this also has to be one of the deepest air crash recoveries on record...

amazing feat...

[eppur_se_muova]

8. UPDATE: bodies found, to be recovered

Bodies found 2 years after French air crash, minister says
From Niki Cook, CNN
April 4, 2011 -- Updated 1406 GMT (2206 HKT)

Paris (CNN) -- Bodies from an Air France flight that crashed nearly two years have been found in the plane's wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, a French government minister said Monday.

"We have bodies... there are bodies that are still in the parts that have been found," Ecology Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet told said in a news conference Monday.

She said the bodies would be brought to the surface and identified.

The head of the agency investigating the crash said Monday he believed the main part of the wreckage had been found.
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more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/04/france.jet.wreckage/index.html?hpt=T1#

[closeupready]

10. I'm glad for the families of victims.

nt

[FLPanhandle]

11. Can there be much left after all this time?

I guess some bones.

[harun]

12. The water that deep will be just slightly above freezing.

Hard to say what is left.

[Travelman]

13. Also lots of hungry fishies down there

I would be surprised if there's much left at all, but who knows. :shrug:


I hope it can give those poor families some closure.

[Psephos]

14. Bodies are preserved at those depths, temperatures, and pressures.

There were largely-intact bodies found after 25 years in explorations of the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck, at far less depth.

[Baclava]

9. Pictures from the press conference

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/crash-rio-paris-il-y-a-plusieurs-corps-04-04-2011-1392938.php