French plane lost in ocean storm

[Dua]

French plane lost in ocean storm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8076848.stm)


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The two airports involved have been caring for relatives
and friends of those aboard the missing plane



An Air France plane carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence, airline officials say. The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning. It was well over the ocean when it was lost, making Brazilian and French search planes' task more difficult. France's president said the chances of finding survivors were "very small". .....


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[mbu]

...hii ndege imepotelea wapi? ...hata debris zilizoonekana jana kumbe ni masalia ya uchafu tu wa miaka na miaka baharini. NASA wanasemaje, hakuna kinachoonekana hata huko kwenye 'outer space'?

Mambo ya Bermuda Triangle haya!

[Ach-F]

Air France tail section recovered


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A Brazilian search team recovers debris from the Air France plane that crashed over the Atlantic



A Brazilian search team has recovered a large tail section of the Air France jet that crashed a week ago over the Atlantic. The Brazilian military released photos of divers securing the tail fin, which was painted with Air France colours. Meanwhile the US is sending two sophisticated listening devices to help search for black boxes from the plane. On Monday, officials revised downwards the number of bodies confirmed to have been found from 17 to 16.
The Brazilian military said there had been a counting error. Bodies and debris from the plane have been found some 1,000km (600 miles) north-east of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands, where the Airbus disappeared a week ago with 228 people on board.

The investigation has been focusing on whether the plane's speed sensors stopped working properly just before it crashed in turbulent weather.

French sub

The US listening devices are being flown to Brazil and will then be taken to two French tugs that will listen for signals from the plane's black box data recorders, the Pentagon said. They can detect signals from the black boxes up to a depth of 20,000ft (6,100m). The boxes are programmed to emit signals for 30 days. A French submarine is also expected to arrive this week at the crash site to help with the search. Teams from France and Brazil are continuing to scour the site of the crash.

The bodies that have been found will be taken by ship to Fernando de Noronha, before being moved to the Brazilian city of Recife, where a temporary mortuary has been established.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country would do all it could to retrieve more bodies. Discussing the possible cause of the crash, French officials have said the plane's sensors could have iced over, meaning pilots may have flown into a storm without knowing their speed.

France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau told French radio that such a situation could have resulted in "two bad consequences for the survival of the plane". "Too low a speed, which can cause it to stall, or too high a speed, which can lead to the plane ripping up as it approached the speed of sound, as the outer skin is not designed to resist such speed," he said. Air France has said it is stepping up the process of replacing speed monitors on board its Airbus planes. The company said it first noticed problems with speed monitors a year ago and began replacing them a few weeks before the accident. But investigators have said it is too early to say what role faulty sensors might have played in the crash.

Its a shame the French government (Who is supposed to be a super power) to depend on Brazilians to rescue their dead.

[mwanakijiji]

Kuna dalili kuwa hili lilikuwa ni tukio la kighaidi; tusubiri tu. Ila msishangae.

[Max Shimba]

Any news kuhusu black box?