This may be accessed by clicking the View Report icon below. BEA France Accident Airbus A F-GZCP AF Atlantic Ocean. In its final report into the loss of an Air France Airbus A over the South Atlantic on June 1, , French air accident investigation agency. Thursday, July 5, was a much anticipated day, as the entire aviation industry awaited the release of the final report on the Air France
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Final report on AF – FLYHT
The Airbus A is designed to be flown by a crew of two pilots. This confirmed what had previously been concluded from post-mortem examination of the bodies and debris recovered from the ocean surface: Retrieved 1 May Views Read Edit View history.
This airliner’s first flight was on 25 Februaryand it was Air France’s newest A at the time of the crash. The finite beacon battery life meant that, as the time since the crash elapsed, the likelihood of location diminished.
Retrieved 17 May Retrieved 13 July Retrieved 31 August Retrieved 12 May Reoort use cookies to enhance your experience.
European Aviation Safety Agency. Archived from the original on 22 July Retrieved 17 March Final report on what brought airliner down”. A large quantity of more or less accurate information and attempts at explanations concerning the accident are currently being circulated.
Air France Crash: Final Report Points to Pilot Error, Confusion | Flying Magazine
Retrieved 4 January Archived from the original on 20 May wf447 On 7 May the flight recorders, under judicial sealwere taken aboard the French Navy patrol boat La Capricieuse for transfer to the port of Cayenne.
A one-hour documentary entitled Lost: Retrieved repoet February Roughly 20 seconds later, at Retrieved 27 June Retrieved 8 January Pre — — — — — — — — — — —present.
Half the accident investigators in the Western world — and in Russia too — are waiting for these results. Deport investigators recommended a blocked pitot tube should be clearly indicated as such to the crew on the flight displays.
The icing event had lasted for just over a minute. In April in The Daily TelegraphBritish journalist Nick Ross published a comparison ifnal Airbus and Boeing flight controls; unlike the control yoke used on Boeing flight decks, the Airbus side stick controls give little visual feedback and no sensory or replrt feedback to the second pilot.
Retrieved 12 June El Mundo in Spanish. Chaos in the Cockpitwhich showed data from the black boxes including an in-depth re-enactment. This “simple but persistent” human error was given as the most direct cause of this accident.
Air France Flight 447
Retrieved 5 May Retrieved 4 June The CAS is at kt. Nationalities shown are as stated by Air France on 1 June Archived from the original on 24 July Archived from the original on 19 July From the time the aircraft stalled until its impact with the ocean, the engines were primarily developing either percent N 1 or TOGA thrust, though they were briefly spooled down to about 50 percent Repirt 1 on two occasions.
Retrieved 29 April Flight tests and triggering during normal airline operations have proven that accurate position reports and hundreds of data parameters can be sent continuously from an aircraft to the ground, on demand. Information on the Search for Air France Flight ]. Retrieved 17 August Retrieved 23 June The Christian Science Monitor. These events resulted from the following major factors in combination: Archived from the original on 6 July There were three pilots in the aircrew: The fly-by-wire A incorporates envelope protection technology that prevents the airplane from entering a stall in most cases.
Retrieved 23 October A second consequence of the reconfiguration into alternate law was that ffinal protection no longer operated. It was produced by Minnow Films.
Indeed, the switch into alternate law occurred precisely because the computers, denied reliable speed data, were no longer able to provide such protection — nor many of the other functions expected of normal law.