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Air France Jet Plunges 5,000ft in Same Spot as Doomed Flight From Brazil 2009-12-10 17:49:12.605 GMT


By Henry Samuel in Paris
     Dec. 10 (Telegraph) -- Air accident experts have launched an investigation into why an Air France jet dropped 5,000 feet last month at the precise spot where an airliner plunged into the Atlantic in June, killing 228 people.     They believe it may provide clues as to what caused flight
AF447 to fall out of the sky on June 1 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
     Bodies and wreckage were found but the crucial black boxes are still missing.
     Flight AF445, which replaced the ill-fated AF447, took off from Rio on Nov 29 at 5.20pm universal time and hit massive turbulence four hours later.
     Air France said in a statement that the pilots "carried out a normal descent to avoid a zone of severe turbulence and to reach a less turbulent flight level".
     According to French media reports, the pilots issued a mayday message while carrying out the manoeuvre as they were unable to receive air traffic authorisation for the procedure.
     But instead of descending by the 300 ft that is standard procedure to avoid turbulence, the plane plunged from 33,000 feet to 28,000 feet - a drop of 5,000 feet, according to the newspaper Le Figaro.
     One passenger recounted in a blog how the plane "was no longer under control", and said that cabin crew were panic-stricken. There were no reported injuries.     The incident took place around 10 nautical miles from where
AF447 is thought to have gone down, in an area known as "le pot au noir", or murky cauldron, due to the frequency of tropical storms there.
     Both planes came from the same Airbus A330 family and were on night flights.
     Investigators believe that faulty air speed sensors may have played a role in causing the June crash. Since then all such "pitot tubes" have been changed on Air France planes. The speed sensors on AF445, however, showed no signs of malfunctioning.
     France's air accident investigation bureau, the BEA, said:
"The flight data could provide us with new information. We cannot pass up [looking into] such a coincidence."
     The BEA is due to provide an update on the investigation into the AF447 crash next week, and the search for the AF447 black boxes is due to resume in February.
     

[Pijanista]

Cudan narod, eno Alcatel otpusta i oni se masovno samoubijaju, iako ce i kao nezaposleni ziveti bolje nego zaposleni u vecem delu sveta. Francuskoj treba uvesti prinudnu upravu.

[Tromotorac]

Francuska jeste sama sebi prinudna uprava. Tamo birokratski stalez zivi kao bubreg u loju; isto u velikim 'drzavnim' firmama. Kad se zapali francuski konkord, oni ugase ceo program i englezima, a amerikanci im krivi.

[vbo man]

Ja sam putovala za Evropu tim Airbus A330 neposredno posle pada onog aviona.Nije mi bash bilo prijatno :P

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