RIP

I suspect the worst part of this tragedy is that the deceased may have been quite aware of their fate for many minutes before the end.

Johnny: Perhaps, but how do we know that? (We may never really know what happened to the plane).

It’s just as possible that the plane broke up midflight and very suddenly. They have an automatic signal of a sudden loss in cabin pressure. This doesn’t point to a prolonged series of events occurring.

Truly sad for all.

[Edited by Leftlane staff: DeansterTJ has been banned]

Really Deanster?? Wow. I didn’t realize how deep idiocy ran on this site. Lets just hope people have such warm and memorable things to say about you when your time comes.

DeansterTJ – One word says it all for you “SAD”.

“The airliner had been heading into massive turbulence rising to 41,000 feet. It would be simplistic to ascribe the crash to a lightning strike. Airliners are struck by lightning all the time — they are carefully proofed against such strikes doing serious damage. But Flight 447 could have been hit by multiple lightning strikes overwhelming the operating system and setting off a cascading, multiple systems failure. The A-330 Airbus has not one but four electronic operating systems, any one of which is meant to safely fly the aircraft if the others are all disabled.

Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon has publicly revealed that “a succession of a dozen technical messages (documenting that in the crisis) several electrical systems had broken down” in the plane. He said this ultimately included the failure of the pressurization system within the aircraft. The data contained in those messages will provide crash investigators with their best clues for reconstructing Flight 447’s last horrific minutes and discovering what went so fatally and irredeemably wrong.”

(from UPI.com)

Let’s hope that the salvage team has some good luck finding the FDR and that something is learned from the disaster thereby averting a similar event in the future.

RIP buddy!

It’s always terrible when people close to you pass on. I wasn’t close to him, but my condolences to those who were. He definitely had a cool name, that’s for sure. I don’t think I’d want to go out like that. I’d rather pass in my sleep. But we all have to go sometime.

thank you lln for removing deansters comment, god help those family members of the people on that plane

Johnny, once pressurized system broke down, most of passengers lost conscience. We probably will never find what really happened.

thats sad. RIP

RIP for those who give themselves back to the mother Earth.
I was shocked and surprised when I first heard the news. I was so surprised because it’s Air France again…Remember the Concord??
If the plane broken up in the midair, not only the passengers will lost conscience, they will freeze to death as the air temperature is so cold up there.

My condolences obviously. I hope they put a powerful effort into finding out what the cause of this tragedy was, so that they can prevent it in the future. It’s the place of families and companies to begin mourning, yes, but I fully expect the Brazillian Air Force, French officials, and anyone else interested to be putting a huge effort into studying what caused this, for a good chunk of time.

Now, as far as survival, elviososa has it right, breakup would cause freezing, but if they did make it to water intact, the survivors had little hope, as escaping the sinking plane would be very tiring.

I’m a lifeguard and I’ve made some cold water rescues, I’ve pulled someone out at about 20% off Cape Cod, so i would imagine the temperatures in the middle of the ocean would be unsurvivable. Intense, unblockable sun during the day, freezing cold at night, it’s much like a desert.

But the point of that is, I really hope for their sake that they were gone before they reached the water, I’d rather go fast.

Again, all the best to his family and his coworkers.

If the aircraft had broken up at altitude chances are there would be multiple debris fields scattered over large distances. To the best of my knowledge that is not the case. If the air cycle machines (pressurization) quit working even at altitude and there was no breach of the fuselage the cabin environment would not change immediately. What is truly frightening is that If all electrical power was lost and with the aircraft being fly by wire the pilots would have had no control of the aircraft’s attitude (assuming the engines were also out) and any hope of a controlled water landing would have been impossible.

Not that any of this really matters to the friends and family of the deceased at this time.

grizzly discussions aside, it sounds like this was a good guy who made a lasting positive impact on the world…can’t really ask for much more…

My condolences to families and friends of people aboard AF447. Still, air travel is on of the safest modes of transportation.

We lost a good fellow and friend we never forget. We are shocked and very sad. RIP