A BIG DISASTER ON SKY
All brazilian media (TV, RADIO AND NEWSPAPER) just talk about this : Mystery surrounds Air France flight disaster
The cause of the probable crash of Air France flight AF 447 is completely unknown. Experts are sure that a lightning bolt could not be the sole cause, but are clueless as to the other factors that may have led to the tragedy.
The Brazilian Navy and Air Forces send ships and planes around area. No sign !!! It was a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris. 228 people disappear !!! 58 Brazilians, 61 Frenchs, 26 from Germany e more people from 30 differents countries.
A complete mystery surrounds the cause of the probable crash of Air France flight 447.
The first hint of what could have caused the crash came from Air France officials, who spoke of a “lightning strikeâ€. According to Air France's chief executive, Pierre-Henry Gourgeon, the aircraft had sent "a succession of a dozen technical messages" saying that "several electrical systems had broken down", causing electrical and pressurization failures.
But lightning strikes are “commonplace†in today’s airline flights, said aviation expert Pierre Condon, a former editor of French aviation magazine Air & Cosmos.
Modern aluminium- or composite-bodied airplanes are designed to conduct lightning around the body of the plane, leaving the internal systems — and passengers — completely untouched.
At worst, Condon said, lightning can cause the plane to temporarily lose its way because of loss of certain navigational systems. “But that’s all,†said.
There are other factors. The area in which the Airbus A330-200 disappeared is known meteorologically as the “Intertropical Convergence Zoneâ€. The ITCZ is a moving region near the equator where winds from the northern and southern hemispheres clash violently in storms.
This weather phenomenon is also hindering the search for the missing plane
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