Showing posts with label Air France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air France. Show all posts
There was news earlier on the website of the French newspaper Le Monde that French ships had picked up a signal from the Air France Flight 447 black boxes. But French officials said Tuesday that the signals did not come from the Air France black box. If the black boxes will be found, it would help solve the mystery of Air france Flight 447 crash. But so far, there is no trace of the black boxes.
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The bodies of two of the 228 passengers of Air france Flight 447 that mysteriously disappeared last week have been found 400 miles off the northern coast of Brazil. Col. Jorge Amaral of the Brazilian Air force confirmed that the two remains of are among the passenger of Air France Flight 447. A back pack with a computer and a suitecase were also found along with the two bodies. A blue seat, with the serial number 237011038331-0, was also recovered, as were several oxygen masks.
""We can confirm that debris and bodies from the Air France plane were recovered from the water,it was confirmed with Air France that the ticket number corresponds to a passenger on the flight," Amaral said during a news conference.
""We can confirm that debris and bodies from the Air France plane were recovered from the water,it was confirmed with Air France that the ticket number corresponds to a passenger on the flight," Amaral said during a news conference.
Labels: Air France, Bodies, Found
Air France Flight 447, which was on its way from Rio de Janerio to Paris has crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. This was confirmed by Air France. Here's the statement from Air France CEO, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon:
Air France regrets to confirm the disappearance of flight AF 447 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris-Charles de Gaulle, scheduled to arrive at 11:10am local time today, as announced to the press by Air France CEO, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.
The Airbus A330-200, registration F-GZCP, left Rio on 31 May at 7:03pm local time (12:03am in Paris).
The aircraft hit a zone of stormy weather with strong turbulence at 2am this morning (universal time), i.e. 4am in Paris. An automatic message was received from the aircraft at 2:14am (4 :14am in Paris) indicating a failure in the electric circuit a long way from the coast.
The Brazilian, African, Spanish and French air traffic control centres all tried to make contact with flight AF 447 but to no avail. The French military air traffic control centre tried to detect the aircraft but did not succeed.
216 passengers were on board: 126 men, 82 women, 7 children and one infant.
There were 12 flight crew members: 3 pilots and 9 flight attendants.
The flight captain had a record of 11,000 flight hours and had already flown 1,700 hours on Airbus A330/A340s.
Of the two first officers, one had flown 3,000 flight hours (800 of which on the Airbus A330/A340) and the other 6,600 (2,600 on the Airbus A330/A340).
The aircraft was powered by General Electric CF6-80E engines.
The aircraft had totalled 18,870 flight hours and went into service on 18 April 2005.
Its last maintenance check in the hangar took place on 16 April 2009.
Air France fully shares the anxiety and distress of the families concerned. The families are being taken care of in a specially reserved area of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2.
Labels: Air France, Flight 447
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