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The air france concorde registered f btsc was to depart paris charles de gaulle for a flight 4590 to new york jfk. This was the primary takeaway from reading the transcript of air france flight 447 s final moments.
On june 1 2009 air france flight 447 crashed into the atlantic killing all 228 people on board the following article originally ran in december 2011 months after af447 s black box recordings.
Air france crash transcript. On june 1 2009 air france flight 447 crashed into the atlantic killing all 228 people on board the following article originally ran in december 2011 months after af447 s black box recordings. A book titled erreurs de pilotage pilot error by french flight instructor jean pierre otelli provides a transcript of the last two minutes captured by air france flight 447 s cockpit voice recorder as the jet crashed at night into the ocean off brazil in june 2009 killing all 228 aboard. This was the primary takeaway from reading the transcript of air france flight 447 s final moments.
Although there was a lot of speculation and educated guesses as to what precipitated the disaster the crash remained somewhat of a mystery for two years until the black box was finally recovered from the floor of the ocean. All 228 passengers and crew died when air france flight 447 from rio de janeiro to paris plunged belly first in the atlantic ocean in june 2009. The cause of the crash the worst in air.
Concorde crew s last words. The official transcript from the cockpit voice recorder of the air france concorde flight 4590 showed that the pilots were unaware anything was wrong until. Air france 4590 cvr transcript.
25 july 2000 air france 4590. The air france concorde registered f btsc was to depart paris charles de gaulle for a flight 4590 to new york jfk. Departure was delayed by about one hour because the crew had requested a replacement of the thrust reverser pneumatic motor of the no 2 engine.
Air france flight 447 af447 or afr447 was a scheduled international passenger flight from rio de janeiro brazil to paris france on 1 june 2009 the airbus a330 serving the flight stalled and did not recover eventually crashing into the atlantic ocean at 02 14 utc killing all 228 passengers and crew. The brazilian navy recovered the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea. The airbus a330 is designed to be flown by a crew of two pilots.
However because the thirteen hours duty time flight duration plus pre flight preparation for the rio paris route exceeds the maximum ten hours permitted by air france s procedures flight 447 was crewed by three pilots. A captain and two first officers. Watch out for those pylons ahead eh.
Yeah yeah don t worry. We got an engine failure. We re not gonna make it.
Can t keep this sob thing straight up and down.