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Air France plane disappears above the atlantic

If a bomb, then who did it I wonder?

That is the question isn't it? So why is Air France keeping this information from the public and which group called in the threat? Could it be for political reasons or possible law suits for negligence?
 
I heard on the radio that a flame-out induced by heavy rain may also be a possibility. However, given these aircraft have multiple engines it's hard to believe both engines would fail, but I'm not an expert on engines.

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http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/1998/A98_65_66.pdf

Crash of Southern Airways Flight 242: Unexpected Severe Weather Conditions Downed a DC-9 Airplane | Suite101.com

I would tend to rule out flame out since whatever happened "prevented" them from transmitting. I would think that their protocal would have been for them to report what was happening Tends to lead one to conclude something severe and swift occured.
 
If a bomb, then who did it I wonder?

Well if this was the 60's I would say Algerians they would have had a motivation to fry a French plane !!! There are other disgruntled former French colonials !!

Don't think that Chavez hates the French !!!

If all else fails blame the "Liberals".
 
I would tend to rule out flame out since whatever happened "prevented" them from transmitting. I would think that their protocal would have been for them to report what was happening Tends to lead one to conclude something severe and swift occured.
Well I assume they're going after the flight data recorder, so when they find it hopefully we'll know more.
 
Well I assume they're going after the flight data recorder, so when they find it hopefully we'll know more.

YUP, !! possible, but I thought I heard at one point that the possible "crash" field was in pretty deep water. I have forgotten my ocean geography is the Atlantic trench in that area ?
 
Well if this was the 60's I would say Algerians they would have had a motivation to fry a French plane !!! There are other disgruntled former French colonials !!

Don't think that Chavez hates the French !!!

If all else fails blame the "Liberals".

Who in this entire thread has "blamed Liberals?" :roll:
 
YUP, !! possible, but I thought I heard at one point that the possible "crash" field was in pretty deep water. I have forgotten my ocean geography is the Atlantic trench in that area ?
Well we have subs for that, but I think it will be hard to find the box, because they would first have to understand the pattern of dispersion to figure out where it might be.
 
Well I assume they're going after the flight data recorder, so when they find it hopefully we'll know more.
"When they find it"?
They're not going to find it.
Lost jet data 'may not be found'

French aviation officials have said they may never find the
flight data recorders of an Air France jet that went missing
over the Atlantic.

The officials promised a thorough investigation but said
the circumstances were very difficult.

Flight AF 447 was heading from Rio to Paris with 228
people on board on Monday when it was lost over the
ocean.

Debris has been spotted 650km (400 miles) off Brazil's
coast and navy vessels are converging on the area.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Lost jet data 'may not be found'
 
Well we have subs for that, but I think it will be hard to find the box, because they would first have to understand the pattern of dispersion to figure out where it might be.

There should be a beacon that I think lasts for 30 days (?) or so. Not sure anymore what the range would be.

PS The Brazilian AF just reported a 24 piece of floating debre ( is that spelled right?) ok floating stuff !!

is it 'de brie' as in the French cheeze ? ok I am being bad !!
 
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How do you say "debris" in English? It means "shatered parts of a wreck" but I don't know if there is an english word for that
we call it 'debris' and pronounce it 'duhbree' :lol:
 
Will couldn't be "right" about anything. If "right" walked up and said to him hey, I am "right" he would argue that "right" was actually "left" or that "up" is somehow "down".

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Knock off the personal attacks, TD.
 
The pilot of Flight 974, along with his copilot and a passenger, have seen an "intense white flash" that "followed a vertical direction and was shatered into 6 parts"

However, this plane was 7°N 49°W while the French plane was probably 0°N 30°W (= several hundred miles away)

7s7 Monde - Un pilote témoigne avoir vu un "éclat intense" (876161)

The most probable hypothesis is that the pilot lost the control of his plane because of fast winds and out-of-order electronic systems (there have been six automatic alerts between 2h10 and 2h14 GMT), possibly due to a lightning
 
Updated news on this subject...


BBC NEWS | Americas | Debris 'not from Air France jet'

Debris recovered from the Atlantic by Brazilian search teams does not come from a lost Air France jet, a Brazilian air force official has said.

Brig Ramon Borges Cardoso contradicted earlier reports that debris had been found, saying "no material from the plane has been recovered".

A wooden cargo pallet was taken from the sea, but the Airbus A330 had no wooden pallets on board.
 
Depending on ocean depth where the plane went down, it may be virtually impossible to recover the flight's black box. From what I have read, it seems the plane auto-transmitted numerous different critical alerts to Air France in a very short span of time. This would be consistent with a catastrophic lightening strike.
 
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