Crash of Air France Flight 447

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Surely because of the missing Malaysian aircraft, Maryland Public Television hastily put this episode of NOVA on last night (Thursday, March 13).

Crash of Flight 447

Program Description
On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives. How could a state-of-the-art airliner with elaborate electronic safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record simply fall out of the sky? NOVA assembles a team of seasoned pilots, engineers, and safety experts to examine the evidence that emerged in the weeks following this horrific disaster. What led Flight 447's crew to fly straight into a towering thunderstorm? With expert testimony, satellite weather images, and messages transmitted by the doomed plane's computer system, NOVA pieces together the fatal chain of events.

[freshwest]

1. K &R

[longship]

2. That was a pretty good episode.

The pilots, blithely ignoring the stall warnings while they tried tried to solve an apparent over speed warning, let the plane crash into the ocean. The pitot tube was blocked.

[CTyankee]

3. thanks a lot. I'm flying an Airbus on Alitalia coming back from Italy (not on the flight over)

I'm leaving from JFK tomorrow at 5:45. I am not enjoying all these bad airplane stories...