Hot: Air France Jet Missing (AF 447)

Fifteen more bodies were pulled out of the Atlantic Ocean Sunday and spotters found more floating corpses, luggage and wreckage a week after an Air France jet blinked off radar screens.
Brazilian officials said crews searching by air saw airplane seats and debris with the Air France logo. Numerous personal items were also plucked from the waves.


"Hundreds of items are being found and being stored until we know where they should go," said Brazilian Air Force Col. Henry Munhoz.
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floating black boxes may be picked up by some pirate:drool: better let it stay down and keep sending signals. but a similar incident happened long back during 80´s when an Air India 747 was bombed in mid air from toronto to london, but still the black box was recovered but after a great struggle.so recovering the black box should be a tough job but not an impossible one.
 
trafficinsight said:
Hey, uh... Do the boxes float?... should they perhaps if they dont?
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There are probably good arguments for floaters and sinkers. I favor sinkers because the boxes have devices to assist in their location underwater, which can also assist in locating the wreckage.

It's my understanding that some military aircraft do have event recorders that somehow know to separate from the vehicle before a crash (best guess is that the recorder is part of an ejection seat).
 
Well it looks like they found part of the tail section. Saw a picture on yahoo...yep Air France livery. Looks like the rudder vertical stab.:(
 
The world governments are dumping pieces of the wreckage to hide the alien snatch/grab.

It's all BS.






:bandit:
 
H46Bubba said:
Well it looks like they found part of the tail section. Saw a picture on yahoo...yep Air France livery. Looks like the rudder vertical stab.:(
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That was one clean break, it looks like. Even the rudder is still attached.

What will be interesting to see will be:

1. Where the vert stab/rudder section is located in relation to the rest of the debris.

2. Where it broke off.

3. Is it really as clean of a break as it looks? If it was...was it caused by excessive rudder usage, sheared off from extreme turbulence in the storm, sheared off as the airplane fell uncontrolled, or sheared off as the airplane impacted the water?


One way or the other- the acars messages uplinked are the last communications of a dying airplane.
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
That was one clean break, it looks like. Even the rudder is still attached.

What will be interesting to see will be:

1. Where the vert stab/rudder section is located in relation to the rest of the debris.

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This one will be tough, seeing as how many days its been since the first debris found, and where (the square mileage) they could've spread from the initial event.
 
MikeD said:
This one will be tough, seeing as how many days its been since the first debris found, and where (the square mileage) they could've spread from the initial event.
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Very true. I'm not sure what the currents are like down there, but even the insane winds involved in a thunderstorm is enough to really mess with that thing's landing spot.... then add in current drift.

I'd like to think that someone a lot smarter than me is able to figure out what it's position means.
 
Did they determine the depth yet? I hear subs are on the way from both the French and US military. How deep can a US Navy sub go?
 
SeanD said:
Did they determine the depth yet? I hear subs are on the way from both the French and US military. How deep can a US Navy sub go?
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That's classified...for the layman, just know it can go deeper than you can hold your breath!!;)








Honestly, I have no clue. I'm sure they have them looking for the "pinger" so they can locate it and will send in deep submersibles, since the hatch does not let them out of the sub at depth!:panic::D
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
Twenty thousand leagues
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But ... but ... that's out the other side of the earth and a quarter of the way to the moon. :crazy:

The sea floor in the area of the last reported position and the location of the vertical fin is between 3,200m and 3,700m. The Titanic was found at 3,800m (12,470ft), and the deepest known dive was done by the Trieste, to 10,900m.
 
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