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This Article is From Jun 09, 2009

What really happened to Air France?

What really happened to Air France?
Paris, New Delhi:

More inferences seem to suggest what really happened to Air France. Nine days after an Air France jetliner crashed into the Atlantic on a flight between Rio De Janeiro and Paris there are indicators that faulty airspeed indicators may have caused the accident in which more than 200 people lost their lives.

Air France A330-200

Faulty air-speed sensors?

"As an international team recovers more bodies and more wreckage from Air France flight 447 there are now indicators that the needle of suspicion points to faulty air speed sensors on the Airbus A-330 jet."

Pitot tubes may have been obstructed

"According to reports the pitot tubes on the jet may have been covered in ice or obstructed resulting in faulty air speed readings being sent to the cockpit of the jet. Air France has now promised pilots that they will replace these sensors on its fleet of Airbus A330 and A340 jets within days."

Jet may have been too fast or too slow

"Aviation experts believe inaccurate airspeed readings on this display in the cockpit of the jet may have resulted in the jet flying either too fast or too slow."

Did the jet stall or overspeed?

"As a result the jet which was flying through bad weather could have stalled and plummeted to the sea or gone too fast and broken up midair because of extreme stresses.

Tail breaks off fuselage

"This piece of wreckage, the tail appears to have been shorn clean off the fuselage leading many to believe the jet may have gone through a catastrophic structural failure in its final moments."

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