Thursday, July 5, 2012
LE BOURGET, France — A combination of faulty sensors and mistakes by inadequately trained pilots caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard in the airline’s deadliest ever crash, French investigators said Thursday.
Investigators are urging better instruction for pilots on flying manually at high altitudes and stricter plane certification rules as a result of a three-year investigation into what happened to Flight 447.
Airbus, manufacturer of the A330 plane, said in a statement that it is working to improve speed sensors known as pitot tubes and making other efforts to avoid future such accidents.
Air France stressed the equipment troubles and insisted the pilots “acted in line with the information provided by the cockpit instruments and systems. .... The reading of the various data did not enable them to apply the appropriate action.”
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HUGH BROWN Walter says...
I always check the airplane type anymore when flying.
I won't fly on anything made by SCAREBUS anymore.
And our government wants to buy them to replace our present fleet of aerial tankers...,
while Boeing has workers laid off by the thousands...
Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?
Posted 5 July 2012, 1:14 p.m. Suggest removal
MIKE JAMES GrecianArkie says...
I agree with your politics, but maybe not the safety. Boeing has plenty of planes go down with faulty aircraft issues. And if you are flying internationally, you may have a long wait if Boeing is your only choice (even for U.S. Airlines.
Posted 5 July 2012, 4:36 p.m. Suggest removal