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14-10-2014 2:30 PM
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Referring to Bonin, a 'Company Baby' on the Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight, the piece reads: 'With most of the weather still lying ahead and an anxious junior pilot at the controls, Dubois decided it was time to get some sleep.'
Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
14-10-2014 5:05 PM
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All i'm going to say is Airbus sent out service bulletin A330-34-3206 back on 14th September 2007

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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
14-10-2014 10:03 PM
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14-10-2014 10:43 PM
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No reference that, Airbus sent out service bulletin A330-34-3206 back on 14th September 2007 (which PowerLee is referring to

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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
14-10-2014 11:28 PM
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14-10-2014 11:37 PM
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That there was NO mention of the 2007 Document in the article, to which PowerLee mentioned

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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
15-10-2014 1:22 AM
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The documentary that have been shown many times, and probably in the last fortnight, used either the actual voice recordings or transcripts.
The bulletin powerlee probably is referring to is the modifications to the speed detectors to stop false readings due to icing.
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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
15-10-2014 10:19 AM
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Quote from: TORPC That there was NO mention of the 2007 Document in the article, to which PowerLee mentioned
That's because you've read it in the Daily Mail....
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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
15-10-2014 12:02 PM
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Please provide a link to the current most up to date newspaper article (there's a good chap

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Re: disturbing new investigation into the 2009 disaster involving an Airbus 330
15-10-2014 12:26 PM
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Quote Il est totalement inexact et diffamatoire d'affirmer que 2 des 3 pilotes composant l'équipage technique du vol AF447 dormaient lorsqu'ils sont entrés dans un nuage de cristaux de glace ayant entraîné la perte des informations de vitesse.
Comme l'a établi de façon formelle le BEA dans son rapport définitif, au moment de la perte des indications de vitesse, les 2 pilotes étaient dans le poste de pilotage aux commandes de l'appareil. De plus, 1 minute et 38 secondes après le début de l'incident, les 2 pilotes ont été rejoints par le commandant de bord
The Airbus service bulletin powerlee refers to, was to change the pitot probe on A320/A330/A340 aircraft to new Thales pitot probes (C16195BA) back in 2007. The new probes were designed to give more accurate air speed readings in heavy precipitation.
In light of the AF447 crash, a new service bulletin (2009-0195) was issued in 2009 requiring the pitot probes that were changed in 2007 to be replaced again. There was a flaw with the Thales pitot probe (C16195BA) in that it was not able to withstand the same level of high-altitute ice crystallisation as the Goodrich (0851HL) pitot probe. The new service bulletin required all A320/A330/A340 aircraft to use the Goodrich probes as these were the only ones that gave accurate air speed readings in heavy precipiation and also were able to withstand 'freezing up' at high altitude.
All of this has been covered in depth in the media. There have been numerous documentaries and programmes looking at what happened to AF447.
Edit: I should add, there is no 'new investigation' into AF447. I have no idea where the Daily Mail got this from (it's not even mentioned in the Vanity Fair article), but it's more drivel and bad journalism form the Daily Mail.
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15-10-2014 12:54 PM
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Can you provide the actual link / excerpt / Screenshot from VF, for clarification purposes ?

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15-10-2014 1:18 PM
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15-10-2014 1:48 PM
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15-10-2014 2:18 PM
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If you want to read about the Service Bulletin (of which there are many), read the full BEA report.
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15-10-2014 2:39 PM
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