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I was struck by captain palmers depth of knowledge, exhaustive research and, most of all, his innate ability to explain an extremely complex situation to a general audience. The airbus a330, operated by air france, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into the atlantic ocean at 02. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash. Vor drei jahren verschwand ein airbus uber dem atlantik. Situation awareness or lack thereof on air france 447. However, because the thirteen hours duty time flight duration, plus preflight preparation for the rioparis route exceeds the maximum ten hours permitted by air frances procedures, flight 447 was crewed by three pilots. Air france flight 447 tragically crashed on 1 june, 2009. Four minutes, 23 seconds flight af447 2 introduction the night of the 1st of june 2009 the airbus 330203 fgzcp, fight air france 447 from rio to paris, disappeared in the middle of the atlantic ocean, with its 228 passengers. Situation awareness or lack thereof on air france 447 what really happened aboard air france 447. This flight, air france 447, was headed across the atlantic to paris. On 1 june 2009, the airbus a330 serving the flight stalled and did not recover, eventually crashing into the atlantic ocean at 02. Seoulmontreal reuters as air france pilots fought for control, an airbus a330 passenger jet plummeted from 38,000 feet for four minutes, its engines running but its wings unable to seize enough air to fly. They found wreckage, bodies, and flight data recorders, raising the pilots voice recorder the black box just yesterday. Search for the wreckage of air france flight af 447.
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