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SAO PAULO — A weak signal from the flight data recorders of the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board have been located, French newspaper Le Monde reported on its web site Tuesday. According to the report, French naval vessels picked up a weak signal from the flight recorders on Monday and that a mini submarine has been dispatched to try and find the "black boxes" on the bottom of the rugged ocean floor. An Air France spokeswoman told Reuters she could not confirm the report. The Transport Ministry and the air accident...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Bodies recovered in the Air France disaster show multiple fractures in the legs, hips and arms, a Brazilian official said Wednesday. Experts said such injuries suggest the plane broke up in the air. "Typically, if you see intact bodies and multiple fractures — arm, leg, hip fractures — it's a good indicator of a midflight break up," Ciacco said. "Especially if you're seeing large pieces of aircraft as well." Jack Casey, an aviation safety consultant in Washington, D.C., who is a former accident investigator, said the lack of clothing could be significant: "In an in-air break...

Some details of a US carrier running one of the crash cause scenarios through its Airbus A330 flight simulators are being circulated on several private airline forums and on the public Pprune or Professional Pilots Rumour network. It has been a long standing habit of airlines with a serious interest in flight standards to do flight simulations based on probable causes or using factual data as it comes to hand. This is what happening in what is believed to have been a US flight simulator. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The scenario was conducted several times and the results at the...

As a French nuclear submarine arrived off the coast of Brazil to join the effort to locate the black box from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, aviation experts stressed the necessity of recovering those cockpit recorders in order to learn what exactly brought down the Airbus A330 and the 228 people on board. In past inquiries into airline disasters, investigators have been able to figure out the cause by piecing together clues from the wreckage itself, sometimes without information from the black box. But after 10 days of searching, the authorities combing what's believed to be Flight 447's crash...

As the remains of Air France Flight 447 are still being recovered after last week's crash in the Atlantic that saw all 228 people aboard lose their lives, this story has emerged in headlines today. As the Times online reports, an Italian woman who arrived late for the flight has been killed in a car crash: ohanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31... The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had...

Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged. Debris from Air France flight AF 447 has been recovered from the Atlantic French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31. Flight AF 447 crashed in the mid-Atlantic en route to Paris during a violent storm. While it is certain there were computer malfunctions, terrorism has not been ruled out. Soon after news of the fatal crash...

I just finished listening to a podcast where an avionics engineer goes over the final messages sent by the Air France Flight 447 plane before it crashed. The error messages sent by the plane show that multiple computer failures happened simultaneously, starting at 02:10 GMT, when a series of 14 warnings and failures emerged at once. Addison Schonland, president of Innovation Analysis Group, and Michael Ciasullo, IAG's managing director of consulting services, led the podcast discussion. The engineer, who went only by Darryl, and his interviewers were careful not speculate. Darryl is introduced as an engineer familiar with the the...

A BRAZILIAN search team has recovered the tail fin from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic a week ago, the first important piece of debris from the accident, officials said. The Brazilian navy released photos showing four divers securing the half-submerged fin - also known as the vertical stabiliser - while another four helped from an inflatable rubber dinghy. The find could be especially significant because it could point to the location underwater of the black boxes, which are mounted in the tail section of commercial aircraft. It is hoped the boxes - the flight data recorder...

RECIFE, Brazil – Brazilian divers found a large tail section from an Air France jet on Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that is helping narrow the search for Flight 447's black boxes. A U.S. Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data and voice recorders. Brazilian and French military ships that have so far recovered 16 bodies and large amounts of plane wreckage searched amid a sea of floating debris, finding the tail section with Air France's trademark red and blue stripes. Brazilian military officials reduced the number...

Washington: A new theory has emerged that says the mysterious disappearance of Air France Flight 447, points to a possible terrorist attack against the aircraft by religious zealots. The theory has been put forward by Douglas Woodwell, assistant professor of international relations at University of Indianapolis in the US. According to Woodwell, the recent opening of a French military base in Dubai may have angered Islamic extremists in South America, sparking plans for attacks against French targets.lthough there have been no claims of responsibility or specific indications of sabotage, the disappearance of a large airliner without warning is extremely rare,...

Air France plane: full story of the horror on board Flight 447 Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris began as an ordinary flight across the Atlantic, carrying passengers from 32 nations. But it ended in disaster. Philip Sherwell in Natal, Brazil 06 Jun 2009 Bianca Cotta and Carlos Mello (L) took flight 447 while Bianca Igregas and Rodrigo Motto decided not to fly after staying up late celebrating their wedding Just 24 hours after celebrating their marriage with an extravagant Balinese-themed reception for 300 guests, Bianca Cotta and Carlos Eduardo de Melo set off for honeymoon in France...

Many years ago, before I "went Galt" and turned in my brain for bluejeans and a screwdriver, I was required to think up non-traditional answers to unorthodox problems which would arise from time to time. Because I was the only "Right-Brained" person working in a "Left-Brained" department, I was able to take entirely new perspectives to these problems and usually come up with non-traditional solutions. Now, thinking non-traditionally, if this was a terrorist attack, it was performed in a most unorthodox manner. IOW, a traditional attack is a bomb..now you're here, BOOM, now you're not. It's immediate and spectacular. However,...

At least 12 airplanes shared the trans-Atlantic sky with doomed Air France Flight 447, but none reported any problems, deepening the mystery surrounding the cause of the plane's disappearance. Image released by the Brazilian Air Force shows oil slicks in the water near a debris site. Image released by the Brazilian Air Force shows oil slicks in the water near a debris site. Airlines confirmed that at least a dozen aircraft departed roughly at the same time and traversed approximately the same route, but did not report problematic weather conditions. This has led some aviation experts to suggest that technical...

he Bermuda Triangle and missing aircraft may seem like science fiction, but there is a well documented region off of the coast of Brazil that contains highly charged particles. This area is known as the South Atlantic Anomaly and is avoided at all costs by orbiting satellites. NASA satellites that do travel in the region are shut down, or go into SAFE mode to avoid damage while passing over the Atlantic between Brazil and Africa. The electrical field around earth protects us from cosmic rays. There are two bands that trap highly charged particles circle the earth. The protons trapped...

PARIS (AP) — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air France flight 447 from the fate of 228 others who lost their lives in the mid-Atlantic. The survivors say their relief is overshadowed by the immense sense of loss they feel for those who didn't make it. "It feels miraculous and sad at the same time," said Amina Benouargha-Jaffiol, who tried to get on the flight Sunday night, even enlisting a diplomat friend to try to pressure Air France to let her and her husband on....

To advance this hypothesis, the experts note that the debris is scattered, sometimes separated by more than 300 km. Two days after the disappearance of the Airbus A 330 Air France in the middle of the Atlantic, experts have a first index material to show that the aircraft disintegrated in high altitude. Tuesday, the first conducted a survey in fact shows that the dispersion of debris at sea is very wide. "You can see fragments of more than 300 km from each other," says a source close to the technical investigation. Subject to further information, the first element calls for...