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The Most Avoidable Passenger Plane Crash: Air France Flight 447
On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 was cruising from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when suddenly the communications were lost, and debris from the flight was later recovered from the Atlantic Ocean. The investigation revealed several issues that caused the flight to crash, which would later be addressed to improve flight safety. (aeroxplorer.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Very poorly written, disorganized and incomplete. You skipped over many relevant contributing factors. Did you even read the rather lengthy BEA report and many of the other technical reports regarding this crash?
...and? What are you trying to insinuate? I agree the article was poorly written, but what else?
Among other things, the author of the article seems to be unaware of existence of PITOT tubes, referring to them as "pilot tubes". Somebody even vaguely familiar with aircraft wouldn't make that mistake, and if autocorrect did, they'd catch it.
No insinuations. I just expressed my thoughts on the article.
Cool...understood.
A surprising number of airline disasters can be traced to blocked pitot tubes. There hasn't been one in quite a while, so perhaps enough hard lessons have been learned about the issue. Even more basic, don't fly into bad weather, period.
I just don’t think the press handled this crash with the same constant corporate negativity that it gave the two Boeing 737’s. It seems that deficient systems training and troubleshooting