airfrance plane dissappears off the radar

patrickc · 01-06-2009 01:28PM #1

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0601/airfrance.html

An Air France plane on its way from Brazil to Paris has not arrived and has disappeared from radar screens, a spokeswoman for the Paris airports authority said.
The plane was expected in Paris at 10.10am Irish time.
Its last known location was unclear. However, it disappeared from from Brazilian radar at around 2.30am Irish time after after about three to 3.5 hours of flight.
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That flying time would mean controllers lost track of the plane while it was relatively close to Brazil, rather than nearer its destination in France.
Flight AF 447 had 228 people on board. An Air France-KLM spokeswoman in Amsterdam said there had been no radio contact with the missing plane 'for a while'.
Brazilian television said the Brazilian air force had started a search mission over the Atlantic Ocean for the plane.
An air force spokesman said planes had taken off from the island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's northeast coast to look for the Air France jet.
Air France said relatives of people travelling on board flight AF 447 were being taken care of in a special area of Charles de Gaulle airport.
The plane was an Airbus 330-200.

feck thats not good, i'm not a big fan of flying anyhow, but that scares me, hopefully they'll find the plane before it's too late

Terry · 01-06-2009 01:31PM

patrickc wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0601/airfrance.html

An Air France plane on its way from Brazil to Paris has not arrived and has disappeared from radar screens, a spokeswoman for the Paris airports authority said.
The plane was expected in Paris at 10.10am Irish time.
Its last known location was unclear. However, it disappeared from from Brazilian radar at around 2.30am Irish time after after about three to 3.5 hours of flight.
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That flying time would mean controllers lost track of the plane while it was relatively close to Brazil, rather than nearer its destination in France.
Flight AF 447 had 228 people on board. An Air France-KLM spokeswoman in Amsterdam said there had been no radio contact with the missing plane 'for a while'.
Brazilian television said the Brazilian air force had started a search mission over the Atlantic Ocean for the plane.
An air force spokesman said planes had taken off from the island of Fernando de Noronha off Brazil's northeast coast to look for the Air France jet.
Air France said relatives of people travelling on board flight AF 447 were being taken care of in a special area of Charles de Gaulle airport.
The plane was an Airbus 330-200.

feck thats not good, i'm not a big fan of flying anyhow, but that scares me, hopefully they'll find the plane before it's too late

Ben Linus knows where it is.

01-06-2009 01:31PM

There seems to be a lot of plane crashes these days :eek:

aidan_walsh · 01-06-2009 01:32PM

Air France have apparently since put out a statement saying they reckon it went down with little hope of survivors.

Rented Mule · 01-06-2009 01:33PM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Air France have apparently since put out a statement saying they reckon it went down with little hope of survivors.

That should put the families of the passengers at ease.

01-06-2009 01:34PM

I chose to fly with Air France next month instead of Turkish Airlines, thinking the former would be the safer option...

North_West_Art · 01-06-2009 01:35PM

I have flown trns Atlantic with them before to Toronto. Lightening hit an Air France plane as it approached to land at Toronto in 2005 and it over shot the runway and ended up in a ditch but no one was injured.

Mark200 · 01-06-2009 01:35PM

That's ****

There's a picture on this page that shows the route it should have taken:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/01/air-france-crash-a330-brazil

Mark200 · 01-06-2009 01:36PM

[quote=[Deleted User];60488588]I chose to fly with Air France next month instead of Turkish Airlines, thinking the former would be the safer option...[/QUOTE]

I doubt it....

One crash out of how many flights? It doesn't automatically make their entire fleet unsafe.

minidazzler · 01-06-2009 01:37PM

[quote=[Deleted User];60488588]I chose to fly with Air France next month instead of Turkish Airlines, thinking the former would be the safer option...[/QUOTE]

What's the worst that could happen, lightning doesn't strike twice does it?

http://www.newser.com/story/4982/lightning-strikes-same-man-twice.html

I say fly with them, but don't trust them, they are French.

here.from.day.1 · 01-06-2009 01:37PM

Terrible tragedy. Hopefully there are some survivors, if not rest in peace.

Terry · 01-06-2009 01:38PM

[quote=[Deleted User];60488588]I chose to fly with Air France next month instead of Turkish Airlines, thinking the former would be the safer option...[/QUOTE]
The odds are with you.
The chance of another Air France crash in the next year or so are very slim.

Gummy Panda · 01-06-2009 01:40PM

maybe they've ended up on some mysterious island like Lost

patrickc · 01-06-2009 01:42PM

just looking at it on skynews there, they cant say the nationalities yet, but there could be irish on it for all we know, lots transfer from CDG with air france.

he said we are probably facing a catrasophe, last contact was 3.30 am not good...

01-06-2009 01:44PM

Terry wrote: »

The odds are with you.
The chance of another Air France crash in the next year or so are very slim.

Indeed, that is true. What sad news in any case, imagine going to meet relatives at the airport to be told this. I know a lot of my former students used this route to get to Dublin so I guess there would be a lot of Brazilians resident in Ireland on board as well as French and other European tourists...

af_thefragile · 01-06-2009 01:47PM

Looks like a new way to cut down on immigrants!!

el rabitos · 01-06-2009 01:48PM

minidazzler wrote: »

What's the worst that could happen

they could run into those nasty "others"

Sharpshooter · 01-06-2009 01:48PM

Terry wrote: »

Ben Linus knows where it is.

Indeed, we need to find sayeed he'll get the info out of ben.

When planes disappear like that are they always found?

partyatmygaff · 01-06-2009 01:50PM

Looks like its heading to be a mystery which will never be solved a - la bermuda triangle disappearances.

Pretty strange, the plane could of just exploded in mid-air which I doubt
or
Crash landed on a remote island
or
Somehow rose into orbit?

Aidric · 01-06-2009 01:50PM

I was just watching the analysis on BBC news there. The Crew made radio contact a couple of hours in to the flight indicating a short circuit failure. This would mean a massive electrical failure possibly caused by being struck from lightning. The chances of survival are slim.

RandolphEsq · 01-06-2009 01:51PM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Indeed, we need to find sayeed he'll get the info out of ben.

When planes disappear like that are they always found?

I hate LOST

iguana · 01-06-2009 01:53PM

Rented Mule wrote: »

That should put the families of the passengers at ease.

They are saying that because even if the plane was only running on one engine it would have run out of fuel several hours ago. There is no way the plane is still in the air and there was no where for it to land. It's extremely unlikely that anyone is still alive and it is probably better for their loved ones to know that there isn't really any hope.

af_thefragile · 01-06-2009 01:54PM

Aidric wrote: »

I was just watching the analysis on BBC news there. The Crew made radio contact a couple of hours in to the flight indicating a short circuit failure. This would mean a massive electrical failure possibly caused by being struck from lightning. The chances of survival are slim.

Lighting usually shouldn't effect the plane's electricals as the plane's body acts as a faraday's cage.

Most probably the plane crashed into the sea. Which is quite sad...

iguana wrote: »

They are saying that because even if the plane was only running on one engine it would have run out of fuel several hours ago. There is no way the plane is still in the air and there was no where for it to land. It's extremely unlikely that anyone is still alive and it is probably better for their loved ones to know that there isn't really any hope.

Plane could land on the water...

ctrl-alt-delete · 01-06-2009 01:56PM

Somalian Pirates anyone?

Stench Blossoms · 01-06-2009 01:57PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Plane could land on the water...

I always wondered about this. Would it not sink?

Fringe · 01-06-2009 01:59PM

They're made to float. Hence, the point of lifejackets and those slides.

iguana · 01-06-2009 02:00PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Plane could land on the water...

Planes very rarely land safely on the water. Last January's US Airways crash landing into the Hudson was highly unusual. And there is a huge difference between landing on a calm river in daylight and landing in the ocean, in storm at night. Sadly the strong likelihood is that passengers and crew are all dead.

ctrl-alt-delete · 01-06-2009 02:02PM

Mr.S wrote: »

Could the plane not have landed on water (like the American one that landed on the river), and their just waiting for somone to turn up?

Sky had a retired BA pilot on, it is possible to land in the sea yeah, obviously much more difficult than tarmac, and a lot more difficult than landing in the hudson river because of the swell,

he said there are procedures for landing at sea, but given it took place in the hours of darkness, it would be very very difficult.

af_thefragile · 01-06-2009 02:02PM

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Somalian Pirates anyone?

They've even got planes now!!! :pac:

IvyTheTerrible · 01-06-2009 02:02PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Looks like a new way to cut down on immigrants!!

I don't know, but probably too soon...

TPD · 01-06-2009 02:07PM

orla wrote: »

I always wondered about this. Would it not sink?

After a while I think. Sure they have life jackets under the seats, must be able to float long enough to get people out.

airfrance plane dissappears off the radar

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