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Appeal proceedings in the matter of the July 2000 supersonic Concorde crash in Paris
The Concorde crash judicial saga goes on. In December 2010, more than ten years after the crash of the Air France supersonic Concorde at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a lower court in France returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation regulatory affairs, Civil Aviation News
Tagged air france, appeal, Concord, Concorde, Concorde crash, continental airlines, Continental-United, court action, future of supersonic air travel, grounds of appeal, july 2000, legal proceedings, paris, paris crash. law suit, public air transport, supersonic airliner, supersonic flight, trial, verdict
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AF447: third status report by French accident investigation body
The French aviation accident investigation authority (the “BEA”) issued today its third investigation status report in the deadly crash of the Rio to Paris Air France flight AF447. The fatal accident occurred on June 1, 2009, as the long-haul Airbus … Continue reading
AF447 & “Space Odyssey 2001″
“We no longer have any valid indications“ was the ominous statement from the non-flying pilot soon after the captain of AF447 finally emerged from his resting quarters into the cockpit of the Air France flight AF 447 operated with an Airbus 330, on a scheduled run … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Aviation News
Tagged 2009, AF447, air france, arthur c. clarke, artificial intelligence, automation, aviation accident, BEA investigation, computer logic, emergency procedure, enquête BEA, flight crew training, fly by wire, Hal, high-altitude jet upset, human logic, man machine interface, man vs. machine, pitot icing, plane crash, recovery procedure, Rio to Paris, space odyssey 2001
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Aviation Safety Culture : Don’t shoot the piano player
Once again, in connection with the 2009 Air France AF447 Rio to Paris flight, there have been some lousy finger-pointing exercises. For some reason, each time a new possible clue or fact leaks from the ongoing analysis of the precious recovered black boxes, … Continue reading