Crash of Air France Flight 447

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It is now almost two years since Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Brazil to Paris, France. I suspect that many of you know that this crash is again in the news as remains of the crash were recently located by a team of investigators along with the two black boxes. More information on the location of the wreckage on the ocean floor, the recovery of the two black boxes, and other information may be found in these press releases from the French BEA investigation of AF 447.

The folk at PBS's NOVA did there own investigation into the crash of AF 447 in an episode aired in February 2011. This is not to be confused with the investigation currently underway by French authorities. Given that this crash has been in the news recently I thought that some of you might be interested in watching this hour long show, so I am embedding the video here. A link to the video on the PBS is found here and the accompanying NOVA webpage for the crash may be found here.

The show was recorded before the two black boxes were found, so it will be interesting to see what the French investigation into the crash turns up when the report is released. According to this BBC report, the final report on BEA's investigation into the crash of AF 447 will not be released until early 2012 (at the earliest).

If watching shows about airplane crashes is not your thing, than you might not want to watch the video.

Note - Blogger had an outage on May 12 and I have temporarily lost the posts that I made on Wed. May 11, including my original post on the Crash of Air France Flight 447. I recreated the article last Friday, including some updates.