New Wreckage found in AF447 crash

rd757 said:
They found the tail with a day or two of the crash, didn't they? Stupid way to gain attention for the article.
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Exactly what i was thinking. It would have sounded better if they would have said something along the lines of "Tail section if Air France 447 found!"
 
2BEER said:
I just watched an awesome documentary about the raising of a Russian sub in the 70's from like 15,000' in the Pacific. It's called Azorian: The Raising of the K-129. You can watch it online on Netflix.
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Its quite a fascinating story. Whats interesting is how it got noticed in the first place. US Naval Intelligence knew that Soviet submarines would transmit a coded burst message when they entered the Pacific, when they were on station and when they were returning. The K 129 was not sending one of its messages on schedule and subsequently the Russians started scrambling additional ships and were transmitting on various frequencies the callsign for the boat looking for it. The Navy started looking back at their acoustic logs (since they record basically everything in the Atlantic & Pacific) and were able to pinpoint what they thought was an implosion. From there, they were able to triangulate the source and setup a search grid to look further. They used the same methodology when looking for the Scorpion as well (and found it with pretty decent accuracy).

There is still some debate on what exactly got pulled up. I believe the guy who was operating the grappling arm has come out publicly and told his account of what happened (he explained why it failed in great detail). Aparently when they first got photographs down there, they were passed around DC amongst the military & intelligence scene and the CIA booted out the Navy and took over the recovery. The Navy wanted to send in robots to take out things one by one and the CIA came up with this multi-year crazy plan that didn't really pan out.
 
I hope for the sake of the families that lost loved ones on that plane they can come to a more conclusive decision on what happened exactly.
 
Oh, man. Talk about finding a needle in a haystack. That's amazing. Sure hope the flash memory is intact and undamaged.
 
My question is, everyone says it a great thing that these items were found so "there could be closure." But who do you think absolutely positively never wanted today to happen because of lawsuits? Airbus or Air France?
 
mikeypat15 said:
My question is, everyone says it a great thing that these items were found so "there could be closure." But who do you think absolutely positively never wanted today to happen because of lawsuits? Airbus or Air France?
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Or their insurers. Will be interesting to find out.
 
mikeypat15 said:
My question is, everyone says it a great thing that these items were found so "there could be closure." But who do you think absolutely positively never wanted today to happen because of lawsuits? Airbus or Air France?
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That is yet to be determined.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42850656/ns/world_news-europe

Determining the cause of the crash took on new importance in March, when a French judge filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France and planemaker Airbus.

Air France and Airbus are financing the estimated $12.5 million cost of the latest search effort, but the French government is to fund the retrieval effort. About $28 million has already been spent on the three previous searches for the jet's wreckage.
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Do you think the results will be falsified? AF and Airbus spent a lot of money on this and no doubt have interests at stake.
 
Well who knows ? There's a persistent rumor about data tampering at the Mont St Odile crash however not proven. I think that the battle between AF, Airbus and Thales will be fascinating.
 
Great news! Hopefully those people didn't die in vain and the industry can help indentify the problems. Thanks for the link and the update.
 
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