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News Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
| 5 months ago
Federal safety officials said Thursday they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned. The aircraft are the same type as the Air France plane that crashed...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| 5 months ago
Federal safety officials say they are investigating two reports of Airbus A330 planes experiencing airspeed and altitude malfunctions. The aircraft are the same type as the Air France plane that crashed into the North Atlantic on May 31 after sending...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Time is fleeting to find Air France Flight 447's data recorders, which investigators say are vital in learning what caused the plane to crash into the ocean. Meanwhile, the flight's captain and a cabin steward are among the 11 bodies that have been...
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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
Among the victims found in the sea search, two members of the Air France crew have been identified: the flight captain and a steward”, the company said in a press release. The Airline chief executive officer extended his condolences to the families...
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News Source: International Business Times
| 5 months ago
Commander Christophe Prazuck told BBC Brasil that in the past days “various signals have been detected by the French marine but none of which are from the black boxes.” Prazuck said many signals were detected but upon closer examination,...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 5 months ago
A French military submarine is being used to try to find the missing black boxes from the crashed Air France plane, after faint signals from the boxes were picked up by French vessels in the Atlantic ocean, Le Monde reported today. The French mini-...
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News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 5 months ago
Air France airliner that crashed into the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board have been located, Le Monde newspaper said on its website today. An Air France spokeswoman said she could not confirm the report. Le Monde said French naval vessels...
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News Source: Novinite
| 5 months ago
An Airbus A330 airplane of the Australian "Qantas" line encountered severe turbulence during a flight between Hong Kong and Perth in Australia...Several people with unfasten seat belts were thrown around the cabin and treated for minor injuries after...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Flight QF68 was passing over Malaysia about four hours into its flight when it was hit by a blast of ferocious turbulence, dropping about 30 metres and sending passengers flying. "It appeared like we'd dropped out of a 30-storey building," said...
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News Source: The Australian
| 5 months ago
The A330-300 aircraft plunged suddenly over Borneo early yesterday before landing safely at Perth International Airport just before 8am. "All of a sudden the plane dropped -- I reckon about a 30-storey building -- and there was a hell of a kerfuffle...