Air France airliner with 228 aboard disappears over the Atlantic

[garbon]

Those sound like a grate deal.

Master Bait?

[Caliga]

I find it dubious there was no Cockpit to ATC distress call.

To me this signals an immediate and catastrophic event.  The electronic signals to Paris (four minutes) is odd on this account.  One would expect a quick fall from the sky in this scenerio.

The other possibility is a catastrophic depressurization of the cabin, which may have killed or knocked out everyone.  The plane then flew slowly into the Atlantic (hence the four minute signal without a cockpit mayday.)

I don't know, ideas formed from different pieces of info I've read.

Bomb.

[katmai]

Bomb.

Playing FS doesn't make you a NTSB qualifed to make such silly claims ya fruit.

[Caliga]

Playing FS doesn't make you a NTSB qualifed to make such silly claims ya fruit.

In this case I'm relying on my Sherlock Holmes-like powers of deductive reasoning. 

[jimmy olsen]

I'm going to make a collect call to Timmay on my homophone.

Nice

[Siege]

I'm going to make a collect call to Timmay on my homophone.

  Dude, I fucking spilled the dam beer on my keyboard.
You fucking owe me, bitch! 

[Siege]

I find it dubious there was no Cockpit to ATC distress call.

To me this signals an immediate and catastrophic event.  The electronic signals to Paris (four minutes) is odd on this account.  One would expect a quick fall from the sky in this scenerio.

The other possibility is a catastrophic depressurization of the cabin, which may have killed or knocked out everyone.  The plane then flew slowly into the Atlantic (hence the four minute signal without a cockpit mayday.)

I don't know, ideas formed from different pieces of info I've read.

It was a terrorist attack by muslims.

They can hide it all they want, but we all know what really happened.

On the other hand, I do agree that with the current economic situation, is better to hide from the public that muslim terrorists can blow up planes like that.

[Habsburg]

Well Air France had a bomb threat three days earlier on their Buenos Aires-Paris flight.

Still could have gone down this way:  Plane hits severe turbulence, catastrophic event (complete depressure or plane breaks up or both) plane breaks up going down (quickly) storm spreads out oil slick and debris.  Transmitter floats for a few, still sending signals.

Very odd though, between Iberia-TAP-Air France-TAM-Aerolineas Argentina and others, dozens of flights go through that area daily.

[Siege]

Very odd though, between Iberia-TAP-Air France-TAM-Aerolineas Argentina and others, dozens of flights go through that area daily.

Exactly. That's the whole point.

[Fireblade]

The Jews did it.

Also:

FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the mid-Atlantic Tuesday where Air France Flight 447 plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister said.

edit: FAIL corrected

[Habsburg]

If it was a bomb they can run tests on the debris.

[Siege]

If it was a bomb they can run tests on the debris.

In the water, in the middle of the ocean?

[Zanza]

What's the point of a terror attack that is not easily identifiable as one if you don't tell anybody later? If it was a bomb, why not let it explode over land?

[jimmy olsen]

What's the point of a terror attack that is not easily identifiable as one if you don't tell anybody later? If it was a bomb, why not let it explode over land?

Even if it wasn't downed by terrorism, I'm surprised no one claimed responsibility for the destruction. It would be hard to prove them wrong I'd think.

[Caliga]

Should I call up the FBI and tell them it was Jaron's fault?