What caused the crash of Air France Flight 447?
Flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris went down on 1 June 2009, killing everyone on board. Investigators found the pilots had lost control when air-speed sensors froze. Both the airline and manufacturer plan to appeal.
What happened on the Germanwings flight?
On 24 March 2015, the aircraft, an Airbus A320-211, crashed 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice in the French Alps. All 144 passengers and all six crew members were killed. It was the only fatal crash involving a Germanwings aircraft during the company’s 18 years in operation….Germanwings Flight 9525.
| Incident | |
|---|---|
| Fatalities | 150 |
| Survivors | 0 |
What happened Germanwings 9525?
French accident investigators released their final report into Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, which crashed in the Alps in March 2015, about a year later. Their evidence, obtained from the cockpit voice recorder and other information outlines in more detail how co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 28, brought down the Airbus.
What has changed since Germanwings crash?
BERLIN (Reuters) – Three years after the Germanwings crash in which a pilot deliberately flew a jet into a mountainside, the European Commission has adopted new rules on pilot mental health requiring airlines for the first time to carry out a psychological assessment of pilots before they hire them.
What happened to the bodies on Air France?
Several French families are split down the middle. Many bodies have been shown in footage filmed by a robot submarine to be virtually intact. But experts say the bodies have been preserved, as fragile “waxworks” by the extreme cold, darkness, water pressure and lack of fish life. They are likely to crumble if moved.
What really happened aboard Air France Flight 447 Popular Mechanics?
As Popular Mechanics found in our cover story about the crash, published in December 2009, the data implied that the plane had fallen afoul of a technical problem—the icing up of air-speed sensors—which in conjunction with severe weather led to a complex “error chain” that ended in a crash and the loss of 228 lives.