Jean-Paul Troadec, the head of the the Investigation and Analysis Bureau, said that the search for the Air France flight 447 data recorders will resume in February 2010.
Troadec also said that a final report into the crash of flight 447 will be be done by the end of 2010.
As we all know, the Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. About 1,000 pieces of the plane were recovered and only 51 bodies out of the 228 who were on board. What we don’t know for a fact is why the plane went down. The only way that this question with absolute certainty is if the data recorders are recovered and analyzed.
The search area for this new search will be about 30 miles long.compared to the 90 previous search area. The new search will cost about 10 million euros ($14.2 million) and will be paid by both Air France and Airbus.
In an effort to find more answers, the BEA will also interview passengers that were on a November 29 flight that was also flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The pilots from that flight brought the plane down 2,000 feet to avoid turbulence. They acted on their own after requesting permission from air traffic controllers in Dakar, Senegal and not getting a reply.
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Hi,
Yes .. the reseaches will resume.
Maybe .. maybe the will finally find the AC remains and the holy grail (the black boxes)
I don’t hold my breat about the hypothetic result of the black boxes datas by the french BEA for put a true light on this tragic event (at least if the true must be embarassing for Airbus .. Air France .. or the official security bodies theirself)
All know how the BEA managed in the past history such events.
It’s interesting that the BEA .. along all the raports and press meeting emphasize the fact that Pitot censors are certainly involved but not the cause of the event.
It’s also interesting that all the pilot unions of AF emphasize thatthe cause is certainly the Pitot censors !
No one of those ask frankly a other question:
What was making this plane there and not the others flying around ?
ThePitot cencors and other command of the plane and the plane itself have such specifications than be there was a suicide.
One can tell .. their weather radar was not functionning good .. an the answer is simple .. make a 180° turn and go back to better weather.
If the black boxes reveal pilots error .. sure it will be published in bold upper case letters.
If not .. the explainations will be “massaged enough” for be credible and fit for all with not too much dammages for the interested parties (victims relatives excluded).
I’m waiting …..
Just some toughs.
Regards.
Hello,
A little more about the reseaches coming ….
report of the reseachers working group :
http://redirectingat.com/?id=42X487496&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bea.aero%2Fen%2Fenquetes%2Fflight.af.447%2Fflight.data.recovery.working.group.final.report.pdf
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-04/air-france-447-black-box-may-be-found-by-end-of-march-bea-says.html
Just in….they better not be kidding.
Annnnnd an update on one of the victims (a posthumous accomplishment):
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=a-fulfilled-dream-of-late-harpist-2010-01-27
I really hope that those flight recorders are found; that is one hell of a claim for BEA to make (that they’ll will be recovered by the end of March) - it had better be right!!
so…
Any updates from the search ?
Yes, Check out: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-04/air-france-447-black-box-may-be-found-by-end-of-march-bea-says.html
Finally some good news, possibly
Well February has come and gone… I wonder what the verdict is.
I want to know the result also, I’m really interested. Did they resume to find the block boxes? thanks
Hello,
http://redirectingat.com/?id=42X487496&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bea.aero%2Fen%2Fenquetes%2Fflight.af.447%2Fflight.data.recovery.working.group.final.report.pdf
http://redirectingat.com/?id=42X487496&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fapps%2Fnews%3Fpid%3D20601090%26sid%3DagubM1SkjpYw
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Investigators probing the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean more than eight months ago said the chances of finding the plane’s “black-box” flight recorders remain “well above 50 percent.”
A search that was suspended in August will resume next month with the help of computer models that have reduced the area to be scoured, Jean-Paul Troadec, head of France’s BEA air- accident investigation bureau, said today at a Paris briefing.
Without the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders it may be impossible to discover why the Airbus SAS A330 plunged into the ocean off Brazil on June 1 while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board.
“This is one of the most complex search operations ever conducted on the seabed,” Troadec said. “‘If we don’t find the flight recorders, we won’t be able to go much further.”
Computer models run by oceanographic institutes have homed in on a zone within the earlier search area and about 10 times smaller, the investigators said Feb. 4. Data from recovered debris and satellite-tracked buoys improved their understanding of currents after previous searches ended in failure.
The area under scrutiny measures about 2,000 square kilometers (770 square miles) in water no deeper than 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).
With a budget of 10 million euros ($14 million) financed by Airbus and Air France, the BEA plans to cover the site in less than a month. Mountainous parts of the seabed will be examined by remotely controlled submarines at a rate of about two square miles a day. Flat areas can be scanned 20 times faster by sonar.
Ships Hired
The BEA has engaged two ships for the search: Anne Candies, hired from U.S-based Phoenix International and equipped with U.S. Navy sonar, and Seabed Worker, made in Norway, which will serve as a larger coordination base.
Three robot submarines will use sonar to scan the seabed and two more will explore rougher terrain.
In the first search, submarines and boats equipped with listening devices sought to detect signals emitted by the black boxes during the month that their batteries were expected to hold out. A second phase from July to August using sonar and submarines also produced nothing.
The cockpit voice and data recorders are located in the tail of the plane. About 1,000 pieces of the downed Airbus have been recovered, together with 50 bodies. The main fuselage hasn’t been found.
Seabed Worker specs
http://redirectingat.com/?id=42X487496&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seabedgroup.no%2Fattachments%2F002_SEABED_WORKER-007.pdf
Anne Candies specs
http://redirectingat.com/?id=42X487496&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phnx-international.com%2FANNE%2520CANDIES.htm
Regards.
There hasn’t been any new development on the new search.