Air France 447 - On topic only!

[Vincentomoh]

Whoa there! They got something. No indication yet of how much, let alone the flight recorders. The wreckage could be very spread out in a very challenging environment. This could be an isolated find. Still, this is very welcome news.

They said the debris field is relatively concentrated - it fits with the hypothesis of the plane being intact as it smacked into the water

[Jerrycobra Boeing]

this is good news in a way, hopefully they will be able to locate the boxes

[TheKiecker]

Whoa there! They got something. No indication yet of how much, let alone the flight recorders. The wreckage could be very spread out in a very challenging environment. This could be an isolated find. Still, this is very welcome news.

You are right I shouldnt have linked it.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/04/undersea-robots-locate-bodies-parts-of-air-france-plane-crash/

[brianw999]

Great news. Hope they find the data and voice recorders and hope they are intact.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/black-bo...404-1ctkz.html

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[Jpmkam]

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute certainly has been very successful in deep depth discoveries.

[Jpmkam]

CNN showing excerpts from a news conference with some photos of the wreckage on the sea floor, with what looks to be the nose wheel assembly among other parts.

[AVION1]

Here are the pictures...!
an entire engine, landing gears, etc.

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/images.du.site.php

[AVION1]

There is another large piece of the fuselage, with bodies inside...

[fmedina]

Does this wreckage seem to indicate plane "landed" fairly intact?

From what I have been reading, this find seems to confirm that the plane landed in the water roughly intact? There was some debate as to whether plane was flying forward or in a spin when it hit, any idea if this can be gleaned from what you have seen so far?

What indicators does one look to in these cases to figure out if an intact plane flew into water or spun down into the water?

Thanks,

[Highkeas]

On the BEA site
http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flig...es.du.site.php there is a sonar scan. When or if the wreckage is mapped it should be possible to estimate a forward velocity at impact (assuming that is when the aircraft broke apart).

[Jpmkam]

Here are the pictures...!
an entire engine, landing gears, etc.

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/images.du.site.php

Thanks for posting the photos. Where it appeared to be the nose wheel assembly to me before in the news conference, this photo instead shows it to be the main landing gear assembly.

[Evan]

Here are the pictures...!
an entire engine, landing gears, etc.

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/images.du.site.php

More images up there now. The sonar image appears to show a concentrated debris field, and the images suggest that the debris lies in accessible terrain. If the tail section didn't break off and drift elsewhere, we just might be seeing the flight recorders soon. But how can they possibly still function after two years at those depths?

[Vincentomoh]

More images up there now. The sonar image appears to show a concentrated debris field, and the images suggest that the debris lies in accessible terrain. If the tail section didn't break off and drift elsewhere, we just might be seeing the flight recorders soon. But how can they possibly still function after two years at those depths?

Well, it hasn't been two years yet - More like one and 3 quarters.

[KurtMc]

Peace

[TheKiecker]

Glad they found it

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WHOAH!!! They didnt find IT they found pieces of it .

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