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Post by onlymark on Apr 21, 2011 11:58:17 GMT
Air France flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic two years ago. They've recently found now the crash site. I do hope they find the 'black' boxes and determine the cause. But the reason for posting this is to do with decision making. The making of a decision that at the time may have seemed reasonable on the ground but for someone outside of the process, a member of the public, the reason will more than likely always remain a mystery. I tend to notice these things for some reason, as the reasons for following a certain path of action - the why you did it rather than the what you did - must have an interest for me. Look at the following web page from the BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13145313It should show the Search Zone (if it doesn't then click on the tab for it). Notice the picture on the left. The initial search zone in black dots. The expanded search in grey dots, and then the location of the crash site. Do you see the 'snick' missing out of the expanded search? The bit that just so happens to be where the crash site is? My interest is why, oh why, did they do that? Why did they decide to miss that bit out? I'd love to know the reason as it surely was harder to miss it out than to include it, no? (And I'm also trying to find out how many times I can write the word 'reason', for some reason.)
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Post by bjd on Apr 21, 2011 12:21:20 GMT
I agree that's odd. There must have been a reason for it, given that there were several searches and it was always left out, at least according to these images.
Given the time and money spent on trying to recover the wreckage and black boxes, there must have been a lot of people working on it who took the decisions they did. Of course, it's always easier in hindsight.
You could write a letter to Air France to ask.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 21, 2011 13:22:30 GMT
Better if a French speaker did it. You know what the French are like.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2011 14:34:42 GMT
My guess was that they were searching where they had found some floating stuff, thinking that it was floating directly on top of the crash site. In fact, the wreck is a lot more intact than anybody imagined, and therefore there was less floating right above the wreck -- and so they didn't look there.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2011 17:23:50 GMT
On June 3rd, the recovery of bodies ended. They brought up 104 bodies since the end of April, to add to the 50 bodies that were found immediately after the crash. All of these will be identifiable through DNA tests. 74 totally "denatured" unidentifiable bodies were left on the ocean floor.
Full analysis of the black boxes will be published at the end of July. One of the most awful details is that the plane fell for about four and a half minutes before hitting the ocean. Those must have been the longest and most horrifying four and a half minutes in the world.
I think that sometimes we get too much information about such events, and we clearly spend too much money on the activities following a crash like that, when money is in such short supply for so many of the living. I understand the sadness and/or outrage of the families of the victims in any such tragedy, but if we would let go of some of the details (the bodies), I think it would be better. I am completely in favor of recovering the black boxes because they will help to prevent future accidents (maybe), but all of the other stuff is just pandering to public opinion.
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