Air France Flight 447 has gone missing, the flight left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was scheduled to land at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at a little after 11:00 a.m. on Monday; there are 228 people aboard the plane.
Air France Similar Model
The Air France-KLM Group has not had a fatal accident since the Concorde disaster nearly 10 years ago. The missing Air France Flight is a twin engine Airbus SAS A330 model; and has never had a fatal commercial flight.
Air France Similar Model
The Air France-KLM Group has not had a fatal accident since the Concorde disaster nearly 10 years ago. The missing Air France Flight is a twin engine Airbus SAS A330 model; and has never had a fatal commercial flight.
The plane had encountered an area of strong turbulence, according to Air France, and an automatic message was received indicating a breakdown in the electrical circuitry. This in itself would not have been enough to bring the plane down.
“Modern airliners do not just go missing,” said David Learmount, safety editor at Flight
International in London. “They were en route and should have been fine. The question is, what happened after the electrical fault, because a short circuit in itself should not bring down a plane. That would be different if there was a fire, for example.”
The Airbus SAS A330 was last serviced in April and had over 18,000 flying hours since it began flights in 2005; according to Air France. The flights pilot has over 11,000 hours including 1100 hours on this specific type of plane.
For an airliner to just go missing is a terrible sign; in today’s world of modern aviation and communication, if this flight was okay, someone would have heard from them by now.
It seems that the worst fears of those related to the 228 souls onboard will most likely come true.
The Air-France Group last suffered a fatal accident when the Concorde, the famous supersonic jet, crashed in 2000; 113 people were killed in that incident.
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