Flight 447 UPDATE:Bodies and Other Debris Found From Air France Flight 447

Flight 447 UPDATE:Bodies and Other Debris Found From Air France Flight 447. Two men, one of whom was confirmed to be a passenger from the Air France plane that is believed to have crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, June 1st, 2009 was found early Saturday, June 6th, 2009.

Fight Air France Flight 447, an Airbus 330 disappeared over the Atlantic early Monday, June 1st. 2009, while flying from Rio de Janiero, Brazil to Paris, France.

Besides the two men’s bodies, they found a backpack and a leather briefcase containing an airplane ticket with a reservation code, which Air France verified belonged to a passenger on the jet.

The Brazilian navy and air force confirmed that the backpack contained a laptop. An oxygen mask also was discovered 420 miles north of the Fernando de Noronha islands, 220 miles (355 kilometers) off the northeast coast of Brazil.

Flight 447 UPDATE:Bodies and Other Debris Found From Air France Flight 447 and where the flight 447 actually crashed, is any one’s guess since there was a bad storm at the time and ocean currents likely caused the bodies and debris to drift in the six days since the plane crash.

Everyone aboard Air France flight 447, all 228 passengers and crew members on the Airbus 330 are presumed to have died when the plane disappeared northeast of the islands.

Search teams were still trying to find debris from the jet Saturday, June 6th, 2009, two days after an air force official confirmed that debris plucked from the ocean earlier, was not from the downed, Air France jet.

Earlier Saturday, aviation investigators stated that Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages, including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged, before it vanished with 228 people on board.

According to officials, “the error messages suggest that the plane may have been flying too fast or too slow through severe thunderstorms it encountered before the crash.”

Further investigation into Flight 447, shows that the airline had failed to replace a part, as recommended by the manufacturer, Airbus.

Airbus had advised airlines to update a piece of equipment that is part of the system that monitors airspeed called a pitot tube. The recommendation was a result of technological developments and improvements, an Airbus spokesman told CNN’s Richard Quest. The change was not mandatory, and the spokesman would not comment on Air France’s failure to follow the advice.

“Previous planes have crashed because of faulty or blocked pitot tubes in the past and there was clearly something wrong with the doomed plane’s speed-monitoring equipment. But, it may be a mistake to place too much emphasis on the pitot tubes, he added, as the jet apparently was experiencing massive system failures, stated Quest.
They are still analying the error messages and satellite images of the doomed flight’s path and investigators say they still have a lot of work to determine what caused flight 447 to go down.

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