Comments on: Air France Jet Not Destroyed In Air

Report Says Flight 447 Fell Vertically Into Atlantic Ocean Off Brazilian Coast

[Questionews]

There's nothing more comforting than knowing that you are at the mercy of the airline that chose the lowest bidder. I bet they saved at least a couple million by choosing Airbus over Boeing.

[bobnjersey]

[Yeah, just by pure coincidence it happened to go off just after the plane entered an EXTREME storm and had it's instruments starting to fail. Yep, that's it, just a coincidence. ]

allegedly this area is known for violent storms ... so the plane being in a storm wouldn't be unusual.

it's possible that a carefully placed bomb could compromise the flight controls ... explaining the instrument anomolies ... which indirectly caused the crash.

and the french president has been saying some generally anti-muslim things of late.

[rainbowroosie]

Cover up the cause -- save French jobs!!!!!!

[stickdog3]

Why do they keep putting up these kinds of reports, why don't they just wait for the final conclusion, instead of all this rhetoric, and fairy tales. I'm not a structural engineer, but, I do have common sense. If something that large, falls that far (35,000 feet) that plane is going to break up into a literally million pieces. Not one of those bodies would be intact like they're finding them. The rudder and tail wouldn't be intact like they were found last month, come on please, give me a break.

[pegalys]

Errors can creep up on the autopilot slowly because it is only responding to signals it gets from various sensors. If the pitot tubes gradually frost over evenly, and fool the autopilot into thinking it needs to add power, the plane will start accelerating, and this exacerbates the frosting over. Pretty soon the plane is up against the sound barrier, and the slightest turbulence it encounters can be disasterous.

[easternairlines1950]

We are only being told what we are to know.........there is a lot behind all of this. Any airline cpt. would tell you that flew during the 50-80's.....it can happen....

although, there was a cash, Easten Airlines fight, in everglades in the early 70s and i believe it went straight down, and it was the auto pilot switch which caused it.......and then there was another plane, same thing straight down in the everglades,cause was cylinders in the luggage department. Only the black box will tell, and the FAA will find the truth, just hope we get to know the truth.

[pegalys]

Admitting that the pitot tubes were flawed in the most basic logic would be huge, because all aircraft have the exact same arrangement.

[darthcheney345]

This also sounds like the Yemeni plane that crashed this week.

Airbus jetliners are death traps.

They should be banned.

[darthcheney345]

On the other news sources, this same report is being quoted as saying the plane plunged to the ocean and struck BELLY FIRST.

Airplanes don't plunge vertically BELLY FIRST.

They just don't.

This report is sounding less and less credible.

[pegalys]

The kind of failure we have here would be instantaneous and catastrophic. My guess would be that the wing literally tore off and took a large part of the cabin along with it. Instant depressurization. The passengers that were found may have been the ones thrown clear during the wing breakaway, the rest may have torpedoed into the ocean in a relatively intact fuselage. Most of the passengers were never found. The tail is very fragile and would most likey have detached.