Monday, June 15, 2009

Still missing on Airbus A330-200 crush.

Searches for the missing «Air France» plane crash site continues. Currently intensive search has not brought results.


Most likely the Airbus A330-200 is disbanded in the air, announced an anonymous source from Air France.
The experts believe that the airplane crushed approximately 13 000 meters from the Brazilian coast, and located up to 5000 meters of ocean bottom.

Aaround 800 soldiers, the Brazilian and French ships, aircraft and submarines are involved in search.



As reported by media, the Atlantic Ocean found in 49 human remains. Search will continues until 19. June evening.
As reported, the Air France aircraft Airbus A330-200 with 228 passengers and crew disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean at night on June 1, when it was en route from Rio to Paris.

This catastrophe has become the largest during the last eight years and the highest 75 years of Air France's history.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

History

Well, heres some facts in Air Crash history. Must say - not my composition, I took them from:
http://toolkit.bootsnall.com/
Hope that will give You at least some small look about what have we gone through till now :)



1. March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s, operated by KLM and Pan Am, collide on a foggy runway at Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands killing 583 people. The KLM jet departed without permission and struck the Pan Am jet as it taxied along the same runway. Confusion over instructions and a blockage of radio transmissions contributed to the crash.

2. August 12, 1985. A Japan Air Lines 747 crashes near Mt. Fuji after takeoff from Tokyo on a domestic flight killing 520. The rupture of an aft bulkhead, which had undergone faulty repairs following a mishap seven years earlier, caused destruction of part of the airplane’s tail and rendered the jet uncontrollable. A JAL maintenance supervisor later committed suicide, while the president of the airline resigned, accepting full, formal responsibility for the crash and visiting victims’ families to offer a personal apology.

3. November 12, 1996. An Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane from Kazakhstan collides in midair with a Saudia 747 near Delhi; all 349 aboard both planes are killed. The Kazakh crew had disobeyed instructions, and neither airplane was equipped with collision-avoidance technology.

4. March 3, 1974. In one of the most notorious and gruesome crashes ever, a THY (Turkish Airlines) DC-10 crashes near Orly airport killing all 346 passengers and crew. A poorly designed cargo door had burst from its latches, and the subsequent depressurization caused failure of the cabin floor and impairment of cables to the rudders and elevators. Out of control, the plane slammed into the woods northeast of Paris. McDonnell Douglas, maker of the DC-10, which would see even more controversy later, was forced to redesign its cargo door system.

5. June 23, 1985. A bomb planted by a Sikh extremist blows up an Air India 747 enroute between Toronto and Bombay (with stops in Montreal and London). The airplane fell into the sea east of Ireland killing 329. Investigators in Canada cited shortcomings in baggage screening procedures, screening equipment, and employee training. A second bomb, intended to blow up another Air India 747 on the same day, detonated prematurely in a luggage facility in Tokyo before being loaded aboard.

6. August 19, 1980. A Saudia L-1011 bound for Karachi returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following an in-flight fire that broke out just after departure. For reasons never understood, the crew takes its time after a safe touchdown and rolls to the far end of the runway before finally stopping. No evacuation is commenced, and the airplane then sits with its engines running for more than three minutes. Before any doors can be opened by the inadequately-equipped rescue workers at Riyadh, all 301 people on the widebody die as the passenger cabin is consumed by a flash-fire.

7. July 3, 1988. An Airbus A300 operated by Iran Air is shot down over the Straits of Hormuz by the US Navy destroyer Vincennes. The crew of the Vincennes, distracted by an ongoing gunbattle, mistakes the A300 for a hostile military aircraft and destroys it with two surface-to-air missiles. None of the 290 occupants survived.

8. May 25, 1979. As an American Airlines DC-10 lifts from the runway at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, an engine detaches and seriously damages a wing. Before its crew can make sense of the situation, the airplane rolls 90 degrees and disintegrates in a huge fireball about a mile beyond the runway. With 273 fatalities, this remains the worst-ever crash on US soil. Both the engine pylon design and airline maintenance procedures were faulted by NTSB investigators, and all DC-10s were temporarily grounded.

9. December 21, 1988. Two Libyan agents are later held responsible (one is convicted) for planting a bomb aboard Pan American flight 103, which blows up in the night sky over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 people, including 11 on the ground.

10. September 1, 1983. Korean Air Lines flight KL007, a 747 carrying 269 passengers and crew from New York to Seoul (with a technical stop in Anchorage) is shot down by a Soviet fighter after drifting off course — and into Soviet airspace — near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) later attributes the mysterious deviation to “A considerable degree of lack of alertness and attentiveness on the part of the flight crew.”


Monday, June 8, 2009

Air France Airbus 330 crush. First bodies found.

Rescue team found seventeen bodies from crushed Air France aircraft. That is first indisputable proof that the airplane is crushed.
The Brazilian navy and air force found nine bodies in the Atlantic Ocean. The crew of a French vessel taking part in the search has found eight.
‘’We found dead bodies, seats wing fragment, and various other things,’’ told the Air Force representative. Among the first of the highlighted issues were ocean blue airplane seat, and nylon backpack with a computer and a leather handbag with the Air France ticket inside.
For a long time there were a lot of guesses and theories. Well – even now we can’t say exactly – what caused Airbus A330 to crush. However – we now know for sure, that there are no more hopes to wake up and see that it was just a bad dream.
Most common version about crush is that Air France airplane had such a speed measuring instruments, that often showed incorrect data and was about to be replaced in the nearest.
Also we knew that 24 reports of errors on a series of systems, including the autopilot, were received from the airplane automatically before connection was lost. These error reports are now the only data available to investigators since rescue teams are still not able to ascertain the location of missing airplane in Atlantic Ocean gully.
Investigators are not optimistic about the possibility of finding the aircraft carriers. The search area has been partially unknown ocean part, where the canyon is shallow and muddy bottom. Data storage media can be any depths - from 864 to 4000 meters.
Reminding - Airbus 330-200 was en route from Rio to Paris with 228 people, when it suddenly disappeared from radar screens.
Now Airbus had advised airlines to update equipment that monitors speed, known as Pilot tubes.