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Article: Aircraft Supplier & MRO News - Latin America / Caribbean.
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- AirGuide Business
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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Oct 25, 2009
Air France, Airbus
The tragic loss of AF447 over the South Atlantic brought new focus on determining the cause of such inexplicable events - such as when a state of the art aircraft suddenly falls from the sky and is lost, seemingly forever. The few tantalizing clues that were transmitted from the aircraft were insufficient to do anything more than suggest a number of possibilities, but nothing definitive as to why an aircraft that appeared to be functioning normally, suddenly went down without any communication from the flight deck. The speed at which the tragedy unfolded would indicate that whatever happened, the flight deck had little or ...