Saturday, May 28, 2011
Air France 447 Crash Report Deepens Mystery
Paul Marks, NewScientistThe mystery surrounding the crash of Air France flight 447 in June 2009 deepened today when a preliminary report from air crash investigators revealed a double failure of the plane's speed sensors - critical for fly-by-wire computer-assisted flight - followed by the flight crew inexplicably failing to maintain airspeed and deal with the stall that resulted. The BEA says the plane hit turbulence at cruise altitude and then suffered temporary failures of two speed sensors - possibly due to high altitude icing.
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