Air France Flight 447 Update


Accident investigators are still reviewing the final outcome that led to the Air France accident over two years ago off the coast of Brazil. The Air France Airbus 330 crashed 2 hours into the flight. The cockpit computers send a message back to the airline's flight operations indicating a problem with the airplane's pitot probes that feed information to other instruments.The final minutes of the flight recordings were published Friday for the first time and reveal confusion and shock in the cockpit as the Airbus A330 plunged into the sea. Ultimately, the cause of the accident was a stall. A stall is an interruption of airflow over the wing. What's puzzling to the investigators is the minutes leading up to the stall & how the pilots reacted. A stall is easily avoidable by just lowering the nose of the airplane. It's also something that pilot's practice thousands of time while in flight school. When the final report is out I'm sure this accident will be a positive learning experience for the aviation industry.

 

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