AF Flight 447 – Pitots – ACAR Messages and Radar “Blackholes”

Eurocockpit ^ | June 19, 2009 | LuckyBogey

[luckybogey]

Following the EuroCockpit article published June 17, we received letters which shows abundantly [clear] that even if the debate is highly technical, many of our readers are interested in ACARS messages.

But as everyone knows, the ACARS messages in question since the day of the accident were never broadcast. Only a [main line code vs sub-code lines] list of these messages (in different versions) has been distributed to the press - France2 in log 20h of June 4.

...We should not rely on the BEA to have full knowledge of the ACARS messages. According to our information, "official version" of the tragedy is being developed (Announced watermark on the pages "opinions" of the world) and says essentially that: “the aircraft entered a storm”.

In this case, the pilots are not only responsible for the path that leads into the storm cell, but they are doubly [responsible] for having lost control of the daircraft. A version that would fix everybody, but will not be easy to impose as the facts point to other causes.

...To confirm, we have found the right documents, we show by example [below] that the aircraft left in technical tolerance following an exchange of RMP (control box radios), and departed with the INOP RMP3, this which is also perfectly consistent with the MEL.

Vous savez : "cet orage"... You know: "this storm" ...

[luckybogey]

If you are interested, my Blog Post has the English Translation. Also posted is the most recent weather chatter plotting the official last ACARS position (previously identified as 0214UTC) corrected as 0210UTC.

[Blueflag]

I am a private pilot. Tell me what your phrase

“that the aircraft left in technical tolerance”

means to a pilot?