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    The plane had a C or D check on the 14th of April 2009. So the plane is maintained well this could be like TWA 800. If I could i would want to find out if it haD a tail strike or is there a part of THE a330 that was faulty reminds me of DC-10's that had the faulty door. Issac "mODERN" Bermuda Strike. The french have asked the US help. But the media is going crazy and saying that 2 engines are unsafe on planes. :blink:

     

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    This was reported in the same area where JJ plane saw the orange spots.

    Sailors 'spot debris in Atlantic'Article from: Font size: Decrease Increase Email article: Email Print article: Print By staff writers and wires

     

    June 02, 2009 07:04pm

     

    Distraught ... relatives arrive at the Charles de Gaulle airport crisis centre. Picture: Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters / No Source

     

    Air France jet missing over Atlantic

    Crew of other plane see "bright spots"

    In pictures: Flight that never arrived

    A330's history of electric and pressure faults

     

    DEBRIS floating on the Atlantic Ocean in the area where a missing Air France passenger jet is suspected of crashing has been sighted by crew on a French freighter, Brazilian media has reported.

     

    The sighting by the crew on the Douce France is said to be in the same area off the coast of Senegal where a Brazil TAM airline pilot spotted what was thought to be a burning piece of wreckage.

     

    Brazilian carrier TAM said the crew of one of its planes saw "bright spots" on the surface of the ocean. The sighting took place at about the same time that Air France Flight 447 vanished from radar.

     

    The Airbus A330 carrying 228 people on board went missing on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said there was little chance of finding any survivors.

     

    Planes are continuing to search the Atlantic Ocean. France and Brazil sent military aircraft and ships to try to find wreckage between Brazil and West Africa. US President Barack Obama has offered full assistance in the search.

     

    "We will search all night long and keep going through dawn," said Colonel Jorge Amaral of the Brazilian air force.

     

    "We have to work as if it were possible to find survivors."

     

    If none are found, it would be the worst disaster in Air France's 75-year history and the deadliest since one of the company's supersonic Concorde planes crashed in 2000.

     

    Air France flight 447 left Brazil on Sunday night local time and lost contact with air traffic controllers in the early hours of the morning ( about 12.15pm yesterday AEST).

     

    It was carrying 216 passengers of 32 nationalities, including seven children and one baby, Air France said. Sixty-one were French citizens, 58 Brazilian and 26 German. Twelve crew members were also on board.

     

    Tearful relatives in Paris and Rio were attended to by teams of psychologists.

     

    The Air France plane flew into turbulent storms four hours after taking off from Rio and 15 minutes later sent an automatic message reporting electrical faults, the airline said.

     

    The company said a lightning strike could be to blame and that several of the mechanisms on the Airbus 330-200, which has a good safety record, had malfunctioned.

     

    But aviation experts said lightning strikes on planes were common and could not alone explain a disaster.

     

    Sources with access to flight data sent to the World Meteorological Organisation said two Lufthansa jets passed through the same area of turbulence yesterday without incident.

     

    Experts also said the plane could have suffered an electrical failure, effectively leaving the pilots "blind" and making the plane more vulnerable in an area notorious for harsh weather.

     

    Aviation specialists said it could take a long time to locate the black box.

     

    Air France said the plane, which was powered with General Electric engines, went into service in April 2005. It last underwent maintenance in a hangar in April this year

     

    In October last year a computer glitch caused a Qantas A330 to climb before nose diving over Western Australia injuring dozens of passengers.

     

    In November 2007 six people were injured in a "depressurisation incident" during the test flight of an Airbus A330 to be delivered to Air Mauritius.

     

    From http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...5005961,00.html

     

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    French Pm visiting AF headquarters. Let's Prey their alive and landed somewhere like Bermuda. This would be the first Civilan crash of the A330.

     

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...9Dgq5wD98HRB7O0

     

     

    Air France jet missing over Atlantic Ocean

    By ALAN CLENDENNING – 21 minutes ago

     

    SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean, an Air France official said Monday. Brazil immediately began a search mission off its northeastern coast.

     

    Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members, company spokeswoman Brigitte Barrand said.

     

    The plane disappeared about 186 miles (300 kilometers) northeast of the coastal Brazilian city of Natal, near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, an air force spokesman said. Brazil's air force said a search began Monday morning near Fernando de Noronha, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with Air Force policy.

     

    An official with the French government's transport agency said contact with the plane was lost at 0220 GMT Monday (10:20 p.m. EDT Sunday). The official was not authorized to be named according to agency policy.

     

    Barrand said the airline installed an information center at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for the families of those aboard.

     

    "Air France regrets to announce that it is without news from Air France flight 447 flying from Rio to Paris," she said. "Air France shares the emotion and worry of the families concerned."

     

    The flight was scheduled to arrive in Paris at 0915 GMT (5:15 a.m. EDT), according to the airport.

     

    Airbus declined to comment until more details emerge.

     

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed his "extreme worry" and sent the junior minister for transport, Dominique Bussereau, and Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo to Charles de Gaulle airport to monitor the situation.

     

    Associated Press reporters Emma Vandore, Laurent Lemel and Laurent Pirot reported from Paris

     

    Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

     

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    Link http://www.herald.ie/national-news/oleary-...th-1743851.html

     

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    O'Leary fumes at false claims over the state of his health

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    Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has labelled claims that he is poor health as "a complete and utter load of b*******."

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    By Michael Lavery

     

     

    Tuesday May 19 2009

     

    RYANAIR boss Michael O'Leary has furiously rejected claims that he is seriously ill.

     

    He blasted fictitious internet rumours that he is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has only weeks to live.

     

    He called the claims "a complete and utter load of b*******."

     

    Earlier this year, Mr O'Leary said his leaner look was in keeping with with recessionary times and insisted that previously he was "about a stone overweight."

     

     

    Rumours

     

    The budget airline chief was again the target of weekend rumours on websites and mobile phones that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer.

     

    The fresh rumours claimed he had been given a terminal prognosis -- and that was the reason for his much commented on loss of weight.

     

    It prompted O'Leary to blast the rumour mongers.

     

    "Ryanair has a long standing policy of never commenting on rumour or speculation," a Ryanair spokesperson told one newspaper.

     

    "However, in this case, Michael decided to make an exception."

     

    In March, Mr O'Leary whose wife Anita is expecting their third child, dismissed concerns over his dramatic weight loss by insisting there was nothing wrong with him.

     

     

    Health

     

    Pictures of him beneath a trilby hat at the Cheltenham races showed he had shed many pounds. "I'm in blooming health," he declared at the racing festival.

     

    "Only the good die young, so in that case, I'm going to live to a ripe old age," he said.

     

    He first sparked concerns about his health a few months ago after he was snapped looking far slimmer at the start of the new year.

     

    But he insisted he was "getting fat, dumb and happy" during the good times.

     

    "Now there's a leaner, more caring me for these recessionary times," he said in January.

     

    mlavery@herald.ie

     

    - Michael Lavery

     

     

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    I looked everywhere for that episode Tamizi can you please provide a lionk. All is appreciated :rolleyes:

     

     

    Why not,i'm always hoping that the 'December 4th incident' will be made into ACI episode,and also the tragic crash of 9M-MGH at TWU back in the 1990s.

     

     

    Yes it is,Waiping.There's a episode about the SQ006 incident at TPE on Seconds from Disaster.

     

    Aiman,thanks for posting the 'The Plane that Vanished' episode.

     

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    Still better than MH and also you do get miles. While MH lets just say nothing. BI's under 17 policy consider as child is very attractive. :drinks:

    MH also on a number of routes to Asia and Australia don't have miles which others can go to for ex CX, SQ or BI and even EK and they offer very attractive fare, miles and QUALITY. Not some cheap product as many travellers see in Asia quite common food is provided on even 2hr flights and the food is quality and portion is demmed reasonable unlike someone's I call it the Happy Meal. Happy Meal= Snack Box but no toy. :pardon:

     

    I wouldn't call BI having a quality product but it is true that they are very cheap. Two of my cousins are attending Trinity College now in PER and they fly BI all the time because it's super cheap. They also get 25KG of luggage allowance instead of the regular 20KG.

     

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