Our United Airlines A320 at gate B6 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport waiting to take us to New York La Guardia. It was a full flight and we encountered some choppy conditions around 37,000 feet in Cleveland control. Passengers could tune into live ATC communications via the cockpit on channel 9 in the in-flight entertainment system. It was great […]
Air France wreckage found
It’s being reported this morning that a 3m line of “metal and wiring” has been found in the Atlantic by a Brazillian satellite. The likelihood of the Ocean bringing together this amount of debris independently is very low, so it does appear that this could be the wreckage of Flight 447.
Air France Flight 447
Still not much more information relating to Air France’s Flight 447 which lost contact over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday. Brazillian Authorities have released a nationality list of the passengers on board the flight and contact numbers for enquiries. See the list and contact details on the Seattle Post website here: http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/169982.asp I heard additional reports […]
Air France A330 missing over Atlantic
Reports are coming in of an Air France A330 which has gone missing over the Atlantic. The flight from Rio to Paris was lost from radar a few hours after take off. The flight is past its due landing time and rescue craft have been deployed. The Aircraft with GE engines was less than 5 […]