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PostPosted: 01 Jul 2009, 09:51 
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A Yemeni Airbus A310 jet carrying 153 people crashed into rough seas as it came into land in the Comoros Islands on Tuesday but rescuers plucked a child survivor from the water
It was the second time in less than a month that an Airbus has crashed into the ocean.

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I wonder if this planes tail also broked off?


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the black box has been recovered. we are going to know of the cause sooner than AF 447

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'No black box'

Earlier, a French government minister reversed earlier claims that one of the plane's black box recorders had been found.

Mr Joyandet, the French minister in Moroni, said signals picked up by rescuers came from a distress beacon. Most aircraft have a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder.

"The Transall (military plane) that picked up an acoustic signal did not, despite what was said this morning, detect the beacons of the flight recorders, but rather what appear to be its distress beacons," Mr Joyandet said in Moroni, the Comoros capital, AFP news agency reported.

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there is so much confusion. first it was a 5yr old boy then 5 yr old girl then 14 yr old girl and finally it turned out it was a 13 yr old girl who survived. it was also said the black was found when in actual fact the sensors had only been detected.

4 crashes in 9mnths (2 in less than a mnth), the chickens are coming home to roost

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What chickens?


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Airbus first reported problems with the speed sensors — known as pitot tubes — in 1994. The company advised remedies, but no mandatory action was taken, it was reported.

Last weekend, the US National Transportation Safety Board began looking into two incidents in which Airbus A330s flying from the US suffered critical episodes apparently similar to that of the Air France flight.
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Do different models and variants (310, 330, etc.) have the same pitot problems?
Have they made the fix mandatory yet?


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The Comoros Island runway is seen as having a very difficult approach flight.

Pilots have mentioned that landing in day time is hard enough, doing it at night is a nightmare. Some airlines require pilots to have extra training to land there in day time.

So without getting exercise by jumping to conculsions and etc, this prang may just be another pilot error at night.


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