AF447 Plane Accident

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French sub

The US listening devices are being flown to Brazil and will then be taken to two French tugs that will listen for signals from the plane's black box data recorders, the Pentagon said.

They can detect signals from the black boxes up to a depth of 20,000ft (6,100m).

The boxes are programmed to emit signals for 30 days.


A French submarine is also expected to arrive this week at the crash site to help with the search.

Teams from France and Brazil are continuing to scour the site of the crash.

The bodies that have been found will be taken by ship to Fernando de Noronha, before being moved to the Brazilian city of Recife, where a temporary mortuary has been established.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country would do all it could to retrieve more bodies.

Discussing the possible cause of the crash, French officials have said the plane's sensors could have iced over, meaning pilots may have flown into a storm without knowing their speed.

France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau told French radio that such a situation could have resulted in "two bad consequences for the survival of the plane".

"Too low a speed, which can cause it to stall, or too high a speed, which can lead to the plane ripping up as it approached the speed of sound, as the outer skin is not designed to resist such speed," he said.

Air France has said it is stepping up the process of replacing speed monitors on board its Airbus planes.

The company said it first noticed problems with speed monitors a year ago and began replacing them a few weeks before the accident.

But investigators have said it is too early to say what role faulty sensors might have played in the crash.

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Brazilian authorities say they have found 8 more bodies from the airbus which crashed in the Atlantic, bringing total to 24.

[Sammeth.]

Who goes looking for wreckage in speedos, thats just being silly.

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"Brazilian Air Force arrived at Fernando de Noronha with the first 16 bodies. "



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[Yoshimitsui]

No image Matt

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Omg Matt you love planes dont you ol:

[xxMATTGxx]

Omg Matt you love planes dont you ol:

In a way but I'm also concerned on the cause of this crash. Planes don't fall out of the sky at cruising altitude for no reason

[BeanEgg]

So I was right about signal beams lasting for 30 days only. - Hope they find it and begin an investigation.

[LuketheDuke]

A theory is some of the planes machinery failed when the plane was doing too much speed going through a patch of heavy turbulance.

This could have led to a complete malfunction which would mean the plane went without a trace.

[Dan!]

So I was right about signal beams lasting for 30 days only. - Hope they find it and begin an investigation.

Correct then again their was a case where a plane crash it took them a few years to fine the blackbox not all of the infomation was their but it did give them an idea/picture of what happed.

A theory is some of the planes machinery failed when the plane was doing too much speed going through a patch of heavy turbulance.

This could have led to a complete malfunction which would mean the plane went without a trace.

really?? did not think they were jumping the gun at this stage?? i know they were saying about problem with so called "speed monitors"

i guess their trying to come up with some sort of theory or theory's to what happed.

got to love how they saying how they notice problem with "speed monitors" and only started replacing them two weeks before the crash makes me feel much better knowing that :rolleyes: