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The crash of the Air France 447 Airbus A330 flying Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June 2009 was not the result of errors by aircraft maker Airbus, French air safety investigators have told the French media. Investigators from the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) safety regulator...
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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. See more on this story here
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Airbus will help fund an extended search for flight recorders and debris of an Air France A330 that crashed into the Atlantic last month, France's crash investigation bureau said on Thursday. Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed on June 1, killing all 228 people on board. Only a small...
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Marvelous feat of aircraft structural engineering to have kept the fuselage intact as the aircraft plummeted down at a high vertical acceleration rate and just to break up on impact on the water... but is this also possible with the empennage and wing sections of the aircraft including the engines? How...
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According to the Times Online , Airbus could be asked to ground its A330/40 aircraft by the french investigators after they conclude that faulty speed data and electronics were the main problem in the disaster that killed 228 people.