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News Source: The independent
| 6 months ago
Ten days after flight AF447 vanished over the south Atlantic, the mystery of what happened to the Air France Airbus and the 228 people on board is starting to become clear...All the indications are that the calamity was influenced – if not entirely...
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News Source: Japan Today
| 6 months ago
Brazil — The first 16 bodies recovered from an Air France jet crash in the Atlantic arrived at this remote Brazilian island on Tuesday ahead of identification, officials said. The remains were recovered over the weekend from the spot the Airbus...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 6 months ago
Air France, which lost an A330 passenger jet with 228 people aboard on June 1, has promised not to allow its A330 and A340 planes to fly from Tuesday until they have all been equipped with new speed monitors, a pilots' union said on Tuesday.
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 6 months ago
Air France pilots. Investigators are considering crash theories that include the possibility that the monitors, called Pitot tubes, iced over and gave dangerously false readings to cockpit computers during a violent thunderstorm. The...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 6 months ago
A pilots' union says Air France is replacing the speed sensors on its Airbus jets, after one of the planes crashed last week in the Atlantic Ocean. Union officials say the airline has promised not to allow any A330 or A340 jets to fly unless at least...
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News Source: Toronto Star
| 6 months ago
Air France has said all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets will be equipped immediately with new speed sensors after last week's disaster over the Atlantic, a pilots' union said on Tuesday. The `pitot tubes' that gauge speed have become the...
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News Source: Times Online
| 6 months ago
A pilots union called on Air France crew today to refuse to fly long-range Airbus jets until the airline replaced unreliable speed sensors that are believed to have led to the crash of Flight 447 off Brazil last week. “To prevent a repeat of this...
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News Source: News 24
| 6 months ago
Air France has agreed to replace within days the air speed monitors on its Airbus A330s and A340, suspected in connection with last week's deadly Atlantic crash, a pilot's union said on Tuesday...The June 1 Rio de Janeiro-Paris crash is the worst...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
The maker of an Air France jetliner that crashed Monday into the Atlantic Ocean issued a notice to pilots worldwide reminding them what to do when speed indicators give conflicting readouts, Agence France-Presse reported Friday. Airbus's warning...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 6 months ago
AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force) In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009...A large tail section of a jetliner bearing Air France 's...