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Flight 447 Black Boxes Countdown: Search Teams Have 8 Days

June 24, 2009

On Tuesday, the French newspaper Le Monde broke a story that a French submarine had detected sounds from the Air France Flight 447 black boxes (abclocal.go.com). Here’s the original story:
PARIS, June 23, 2009
Air France Black Boxes Reportedly Detected
French Newspaper Says Navy Has Picked Up “Very Weak” Signal From Data Recorders At Bottom Of [...]

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Final Destination Experience For Passenger Who Missed Air France Flight 447

June 11, 2009

Holy crap. According to this article, a woman who was supposed to be on Air France Flight AF 447 — but missed the flight — was killed today in a car wreck in Austria:
An Italian woman has been killed in a car crash only days after she narrowly avoided being a victim of the Air [...]

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Flight AF 447 News: Terror Names Linked to Two Passengers on Air France Flight 447

June 10, 2009

Though terrorism was highly unlikely as a factor in the crash of Air France Flight AF 447, it was reported today that two of the passengers shared names with radical Islamic terrorists (source):
Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French equivalent of [...]

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Brazil Military Finds Bodies of Air France Flight 447 Victims

June 6, 2009

The Brazil Air Force and Navy have found the bodies of 2 men from the Air France Flight 447. Along with the bodies, the Brazil Air Force and Navy reported recovering a wing fragment from the A330-200 Airbus, a blue aircraft seat, a leather bag containing an Air France ticket, and a backpack containing a [...]

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Update: Air France Flight 447 Theories

June 3, 2009

Much has happened in the past 24 hours. Yesterday, news came out that the Brazilian Air Force had located debris that was likely from Air France Flight AF 447. The military planes spotted an airplane seat, a fuel slick and a pieces of white debris scattered over a 3 mile range in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. [...]

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Air France Flight 447 Vanishes Over Atlantic Ocean

June 2, 2009

If you know me, you probably know how plane flights freak me out in a bad way. I was not always afraid of flying, but after some odd events involving planes, I now have a mild phobia. I say ‘mild’ because I can still manage to ride on a plane. It’s people like John Madden [...]

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