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Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France.On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330.
The aircraft crashed with no survivors while flying through a series of large ITCZ thunderstorms, and ice forming rapidly on airspeed sensors was the precipitating cause for a cascade of human errors which ultimately doomed the flight. Most aircraft flying these routes are able to avoid the larger convective cells without incident.
The RAT overvaulted and its power arced to a high pressure fuel line to the #1 engine. The fuel line ruptured between the pressure sensor for the engine and the high-pressure fuel pump causing an open circuit. The pump attempted to increase the pressure at the engine by going to full speed which resulted in a high pressure fuel-fed fire.
The data from the sensors are used to calculate numerous factors including airspeed and altitude. Because three pressure transducers failed to function [9] —attributable to condensation inside devices, not a maintenance error—the flight-control computers calculated inaccurate aircraft angle of attack and airspeed.
The plane began to lose airspeed, reaching a maximum height of 40 metres (130 ft) before descending and eventually entering an aerodynamic stall. By the time the crew feathered the propeller, 17 seconds after the initial failure, it was too late to recover the plane, which impacted a highway 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi; 0.86 nmi) from the end of ...
Live updates: Scores feared dead after plane crash near Washington, DC Air traffic control audio: 'I just saw a fireball' At 8:47 p.m., an air traffic controller is heard hailing the helicopter.
The cause of the crash was likely an onboard explosive device, [123] [124] and that ISIL has claimed that it brought down the aircraft. [ 125 ] On 2 February 2016, Daallo Airlines Flight 159 , an Airbus A321-111 registered as SX-BHS, suffered an in-flight explosion five minutes after takeoff, injuring two passengers; the explosion blew a hole ...
South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...