David Robert

Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) was a scheduled passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, which crashed on 1 June 2009. The Airbus A330, operated by Air France, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at 02:14 UTC, killing all 228 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew aboard the aircraft.The Brazilian Navy removed the first major wreckage and two bodies from the sea within five days of the accident, but the initial investigation by Frances Bureau dEnquêtes et dAnalyses pour la Sécurité de lAviation Civile (BEA) was hampered because the aircrafts black boxes were not recovered from the ocean floor until May 2011, nearly two years later.The BEAs final report, released at a news conference on 5 July 2012, concluded that the aircraft crashed after temporary inconsistencies between the airspeed measurements – likely due to the aircrafts pitot tubes being obstructed by ice crystals – caused the autopilot to disconnect, after which the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately caused the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover. The accident was the deadliest in the history of Air France. It was also the Airbus A330s second and deadliest accident, and its first in commercial passenger service.

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