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On the night of 1 June 2009, Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing with 216 passengers and 12 crew on board. The Airbus A330-200 disappeared mid-ocean in equatorial waters, beyond radar coverage. For five days, the plane's fate was a mystery.
But even when the first debris was recovered, the reason the plane crashed was far from clear. Why would a state-of-the art aircraft, piloted by a seasoned crew, crash in mid-Atlantic? The aircraft had flown through a thunderstorm, but why had its crews sent out no distress signal? Only when the plane's black box was recovered, investigators believed, could those questions be answered. Reported by guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago.
On the night of 1 June 2009, Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing with 216 passengers and 12 crew on board. The Airbus A330-200 disappeared mid-ocean in equatorial waters, beyond radar coverage. For five days, the plane's fate was a mystery.
But even when the first debris was recovered, the reason the plane crashed was far from clear. Why would a state-of-the art aircraft, piloted by a seasoned crew, crash in mid-Atlantic? The aircraft had flown through a thunderstorm, but why had its crews sent out no distress signal? Only when the plane's black box was recovered, investigators believed, could those questions be answered. Reported by guardian.co.uk 7 hours ago.