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  1. 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.

  2. On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean. The tragic event, which claimed the lives of all 228 passengers and crew, remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.

  3. Jun 1, 2022 · At 02:14:28, less than five minutes after the autopilot disengaged and with no mayday transmission, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the ocean at a speed of 152 knots, descending at a rate of 10,912 feet per minute. Search and Rescue Operation. By the afternoon of June 1, it was announced that Flight 447 was missing, with little hope for ...

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  4. May 8, 2019 · Air France Flight 447 became a story when it disappeared so suddenly. It remains a story because of what it reflects about the way we work with the machines we create and the ways in which we think and learn. Air disasters make front page news, but there are multiple other domains in which those same factors play a part.

  5. Mar 28, 2020 · Retired pilot, union representative and investigator Gérard Arnoux wrote a book on the causes of the first modern air disaster, that of Air France 447 on June 2009. As to be expected, he takes the…

  6. Jun 1, 2023 · Air France 447 found itself in a stall and fell out of the sky, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean. As mentioned on Aviation Safety Network, “The last recorded values were a vertical speed of -10,912 ft/min, a ground speed of 107 kt, pitch attitude of 16.2 degrees nose-up, roll angle of 5.3 degrees left and a magnetic heading of 270 degrees.

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  8. Feb 27, 2012 · The Airbus A330 was in cruise flight over the equatorial Atlantic Ocean at FL350, on a scheduled flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. Because this is a long flight—the great-circle distance between the two airports is 4941 nm—the captain left the cockpit and retired to a crew rest area at 0202.

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