Posted on 06/03/2009 8:46:46 PM PDT by fortress
More debris from an Air France jet that came down in the Atlantic has been spotted, but investigators are pessimistic about finding the black boxes that could explain the tragedy.
The vast area over which the new debris was found has led some experts to suggest the plane exploded before it hit the water.
According to a report in French newspaper Le Monde, the "wide dispersion of wreckage discovered suggests that the Airbus (A330-200) exploded at high altitude".
The experts, who were not named, said the plane most likely broke up after a "massive depressurisation" in the cabin. If this happened, most of the 228 people on board the ill-fated flight would have lost consciousness instantly.
The new debris was found overnight by a Brazilian air force plane fitted with a special sensor. Ten items were found, some metallic — including an object 7m in diameter — and a fuel slick 20km long, spokesman Colonel Jorge Amaral told reporters.
Five Brazilian navy vessels were on their way to join three cargo ships already in the zone, with the first to arrive today to begin debris-recovery efforts.
No bodies were found, Amaral said.
He added that, despite the evidence of destruction, the air force continued to "work with the hypothesis of survivors — up until we find and identify bodies that indicate that it is technically impossible that anyone survived."
The pilots issued no distress call, but the plane sent automated messages over three minutes suggesting it had been damaged or was breaking up.
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Allah Ahkbar!
Can't imagine.
Sounds like a bomb.
If there was an "explosion" at anmy height, it is unlikely that they would find the type of slick that they have located on the ocean.
But that's just my opinion based on what they have found so far.
Lighning strike in some sensitive area like the fuel tanks or a catastrophic failure due to bad weather.
Agreed, but no one has claimed credit yet.
This is the only thing which makes sense when you take into account the fact that the pilots didn’t even have time to hit the alarm button.
No I cannot imagine either ... unless of course it was a bomb. But it cannot have been, because we are assured it was an accident.
Must have been windshear suddenly pulling the plane to bits - like that flight over Queens New York, on its way to South America, shortly after 9/11. Another “accident” ...
ping.
The O Admin will cover it up anyway. Can’t blame his own religion for a disaster!
A suspected al Queda operative was arrested in Brazil a few days before the explosion of the Air France plane (see reference link below). Bomb threats were made to Air France for weeks leading up to the explosion. Meanwhile 98% of the sheep know absolutely nothing of these facts due to the massive cover-up by the democrat party media. The peons think it was a rain cloud that did the deed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522078,00.html
Yes. But will the French and Brazilians?
Al Queda did not take credit for 9-11 and other attacks.
It seems the French newspapers are not affraid to speculate on the cause, I heard that in addition to Le Monde Le Figaro also opines that this plane exploded in mid air
The 20 km fuel slick indicates NO BOMB. The weather tore this airbus apart.
Horribly insensitive comment IMHO
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