Wreckage of Air France Flight 447 Located – Possible Terrorist Threat Revealed
The wreckage of the missing Air France flight 447 has been located. There do not appear to be any survivors. It has also been revealed that earlier, a similar flight was the subject of a bomb threat. That flight was searched and when no bomb was discovered, it was allowed to proceed to Paris. It arrived unharmed.
Continue to pray for the family and friends of the victims of this horrible disaster.
Air France Flight 447 vanished Sunday night about four hours into its flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The reason for the crash remained unclear, with fierce thunderstorms, lightning or a catastrophic combination of causes as possible theories.
French accident investigators leading the investigation were holding a news conference later Wednesday.
“The nature of the debris, the concentration of the debris … all combines to prove that the debris from Air France 447 has been found,” French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck said Wednesday.
Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters in Rio that no bodies had been found and there was no signs of life.
If no survivors are found, it would be the deadliest crash in Air France’s history, and the world’s worst civil aviation disaster since the November 2001 crash of an American Airlines jetliner in the New York City borough of Queens that killed 265 people.
The floating debris is spread out in two areas about 35 miles apart, not far off the flight path of Flight 447, said Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral.
In Paris on Wednesday, Prazuck said the French military was moving away from its sweeping aerial searches to “the next phase, the recovery of this debris, to be able to conduct the investigation and determine the probable zone of the accident, around which we must search for the black boxes.”
Just days before the mysterious crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian authorities reportedly delayed a similar Air France flight from Buenos Aires to Paris after the airline received a bomb threat over the phone.
Police and officials at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza Airport spent 90 minutes inspecting the threatened plane for explosives on the evening of May 27, but found nothing, according to a Brazilian news report.
During the search, passengers were not evacuated from the jet and later arrived safely at their destination in Paris.
A French accident investigator said Wednesday it’s unclear whether the chief pilot of Flight 447 was at the controls when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
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The head of France’s accident investigation agency also said he is “not optimistic” that rescuers will recover the plane’s black boxes, which are probably miles underwater.
Pilots on long-haul flights often take turns at the controls to remain alert. Asked whether the chief pilot was in the cockpit when the plane went down, the chief investigator told a news conference in France that there was no confirmed information either way.
He noted, “We don’t even know the exact time of the accident.”
He also told reporters there were no indications of a problem with the plane before it left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night en route to Paris.
Military planes and ships from Brazil and France homed in Wednesday on the bobbing wreckage of Flight 447, as investigators tried to determine what brought the plane and its 228 passengers down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The planes stepped up overflights 400 miles northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil’s northern coast, where an airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris were spotted Tuesday in the vast ocean.
Rescue boats from several nations were sailing toward the site to start the recovery.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
Air France jet with 228 people on board is feared to have crashed in the ocean off the coast of Brazil.
Heard this on the radio earlier on my way back home from the mall. Air France flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared from the radar while flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
The video from the scene: Air France jet-video-online
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Those snobby French [edited], why did the pilots fly into storm if they knew it was there? I hope the families of the victims sue the pants off Air France.
I am sure Air France will admit no wrong doing and just blame the crash due to weather conditions. The plane was just four years old and one of the most advance aircraft in the world . It’s hard to believe a major electrical failure was responsible for this accident.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:50 am
John, I wouldn’t be so quick to blame the French like that. That’s not going to help solve anything, nor is that very Christ-like (this is a Christian blog after all, is it not?). The area those pilots flew through frequently has such storms, and certainly many flights across the globe have flown in such weather. Right now, we just can’t tell why things happened the way they did. Remember, those pilots have grieving families too, not just the passengers.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Snobby French? They are not snobby and that’s a huge misconception.