Air France flight 447 crashed more than 2 years ago. It was only last month that the flights’ cockpit and data flight recorders were recovered, and it had to be accomplished by a remote control submarine. In light of the fact the US military use them, Ned Levi questions why floating flight recorders aren’t required for commercial aircraft.
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When we manage to break computers with easy and face varying levels of computer frustrations under the best of circumstances, it is amazing that the Air France 447 equipment found many leagues under the sea is still useable.
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French accident investigators have found the missing data module from black box for Air France flight 447 that crashed on June 1, 2009, in a heavy, high-altitude thunderstorm over the south Atlantic. Submarine drones discovered the data module that had been dislodged from the flight recorder nearby last week’s discovery of the black box.
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Kingfisher joins with oneworld, NTSB asks to monitor pilot conversations, U.S. passenger revenue rose in January
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fter a year of high-profile airplane crashes, airline manufacturers are still not upgrading the “black boxes” as required by the FAA in a March 2008 ruling. The Federal Aviation Administration “is seriously disappointed with the manufacturers,” the agency said in a Federal Register notice last week.
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We still know little about what actually happened to Air France flight 447. Ned takes a look at existing technology which wasn’t used, that might have made a difference for the flight, and the determination what actually happened.
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