An Air France passenger jet with 215 people on board is missing after dropping off radar over the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast
Nobody is sure what could have happened.
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Air France jet missing off Brazil coast
Update: Now believed to have broken up on impact
Bloody hell that doesn't look good!
Read this on the French plane lost over Atlantic (BBC News).
I go with it having crashed. I hope that everyone survived.
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An Air France plane carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has gone missing over the Atlantic.
Paris Charles de Gaulle airport said contact was lost with the flight from Rio de Janeiro at 0600 GMT.
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An airport official told AFP the Airbus 330-200 had been expected to arrive in Paris at 1110 local time (0910 GMT).
Let the conspiracy theories begin! Hijacked? Faulty equipment? Crashed?Paris Charles de Gaulle airport said contact was lost with the flight from Rio de Janeiro at 0600 GMT.
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An airport official told AFP the Airbus 330-200 had been expected to arrive in Paris at 1110 local time (0910 GMT).
I go with it having crashed. I hope that everyone survived.
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I looks very bad indeed, it vanished several hours ago. It arrival time inparis was planned shortly after 11am
It´s an Airbus, so it is not related to Quatas' crash (Boeing 747)
An Air France Airbus A330-200, registration F-GZCP performing flight AF-447 (dep May 31st) from Rio de Janeiro,RJ (Brazil) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) with 216 passengers and 12 crew, is overdue at Paris Charles de Gaulle for more than an hour. The airplane had departed Brazil's radar coverage normally.
http://avherald.com/h?article=41a81ef1&opt=0It´s an Airbus, so it is not related to Quatas' crash (Boeing 747)
I reckon the Widmore Corporation is involved.
Am I the only one thinking that "Lost" finally may turn from fiction to reality?
In all seriousness, though, I hope everyone on board is okay.
In all seriousness, though, I hope everyone on board is okay.
no. did you not read the post above yours?
WILSON!!!
could it just be that however they communicate (radio?) has been compromised and the plane itself is actually okay? Does anyone know if all traces of it have disappeared from radar? I would guess that from its positio it would be too far out of range to tell.
EDIT: scrub that, just seen the coverage. It has been 'gone' for some time and should have been picked up on radar somewhere by now if still airborne. I hope to god that they managed to land safely on water and that passengers survived.
EDIT: scrub that, just seen the coverage. It has been 'gone' for some time and should have been picked up on radar somewhere by now if still airborne. I hope to god that they managed to land safely on water and that passengers survived.
I thought it wasn't actually on radar where it was and it just sent its position back every half hour.
Doesn't look good.
Air France crash: 'No hope' of survivors
Air France crash: 'No hope' of survivors
An Air France plane bound for Paris that disappeared with 228 people on board today has almost certainly crashed with no survivors, according to airline and government officials.
Air France said the plane sent a message at 3.14am British time reporting an electrical short-circuit after it had flown through a stormy area with strong turbulence, the Reuters news agency has reported.
Brazilian air force planes are searching the Atlantic for flight AF447, an Airbus A330-200 that left Rio de Janeiro at 7pm Brazilian time (11pm BST) yesterday. It had been expected in Paris at 11.15am.
The Brazilian air force told the Associated Press that a search was under way near the island of Fernando de Noronha.
An Air France source was quoted as saying that there was "no hope" for those on board.
Jean-Louis Borloo, the second most senior figure in the French cabinet, said: "By now it would be beyond its kerosene [aviation fuel] reserves so unfortunately we must now envisage the most tragic scenario."
Borloo told France Info radio that the plane disappeared from both military and civilian radar screens.
Air France said the plane sent a message at 3.14am British time reporting an electrical short-circuit after it had flown through a stormy area with strong turbulence, the Reuters news agency has reported.
Brazilian air force planes are searching the Atlantic for flight AF447, an Airbus A330-200 that left Rio de Janeiro at 7pm Brazilian time (11pm BST) yesterday. It had been expected in Paris at 11.15am.
The Brazilian air force told the Associated Press that a search was under way near the island of Fernando de Noronha.
An Air France source was quoted as saying that there was "no hope" for those on board.
Jean-Louis Borloo, the second most senior figure in the French cabinet, said: "By now it would be beyond its kerosene [aviation fuel] reserves so unfortunately we must now envisage the most tragic scenario."
Borloo told France Info radio that the plane disappeared from both military and civilian radar screens.
How horrible,
My sentiments for the families... My daughter flew yesterday across the atlantic, I cant even begin to imagine how the directly affected people are feeling.
My sentiments for the families... My daughter flew yesterday across the atlantic, I cant even begin to imagine how the directly affected people are feeling.
Apparently this plane can have approximately 26 business seats and 256 economy seats, so with 228 people on board, it was pretty full up. I was just thinking that if it had had fewer people/been lighter, they might have had a chance of ditching and getting into rafts, but all those people make it fairly unlikely.
I think that one of the reports said something like 2am GMT, so it would be a few hours before that local time, depending on which time zone, when it disappeared. ie in the middle of the night. Miserable chances. How awful.
I think that one of the reports said something like 2am GMT, so it would be a few hours before that local time, depending on which time zone, when it disappeared. ie in the middle of the night. Miserable chances. How awful.
The Airbus A330 has enjoyed a near-perfect safety record since it began commercial operation in 1993.
The wide-bodied, twin-engine passenger plane was designed to compete on long-haul routes with similar Boeing planes.
There have been no passenger deaths on A330s since it entered operation, although seven crew were killed during a test flight in June 1994 when the plane was simulating an engine failure on takeoff at the Airbus factory in Toulouse.
In August 2001, an A330 operated by Air Transat suffered double engine failure while flying from Toronto, Canada, to Lisbon in Portugal. The captain reported the left engine failed, followed 10 minutes later by the right one. The plane was able to glide for between 17 and 18 minutes – the longest ever for a passenger jet – and made an emergency landing in the Azores. Human error and lack of automated computer checks stopped the crew from realising that fuel was leaking via a broken pipe.
The wide-bodied, twin-engine passenger plane was designed to compete on long-haul routes with similar Boeing planes.
There have been no passenger deaths on A330s since it entered operation, although seven crew were killed during a test flight in June 1994 when the plane was simulating an engine failure on takeoff at the Airbus factory in Toulouse.
In August 2001, an A330 operated by Air Transat suffered double engine failure while flying from Toronto, Canada, to Lisbon in Portugal. The captain reported the left engine failed, followed 10 minutes later by the right one. The plane was able to glide for between 17 and 18 minutes – the longest ever for a passenger jet – and made an emergency landing in the Azores. Human error and lack of automated computer checks stopped the crew from realising that fuel was leaking via a broken pipe.
the BBC news reported that the aircraft hit some turbulence and then monitoring stations began receiving automated data feeds from it indicating that there were problems. The pilots were probably struggling too much to try and control it to make any transmissions themselves.
Certainly doesn't sound good. I've flown in the A330 many times and there've never been any hitches on my flights.
Could a direct lightning strike put out any systems? That was one of the theroies I heard.
Certainly doesn't sound good. I've flown in the A330 many times and there've never been any hitches on my flights.
Could a direct lightning strike put out any systems? That was one of the theroies I heard.
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