Mysteries Four Last Minute of Air France AF 447

Loss of aircraft Airbus A330-200 owned by Air France flight number AF 447 on the Atlantic Ocean is still mysterious. CEO of Air France, Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, merely says that the plane entered the air turbulensi region around the great dinihari at 02.15, on Monday local time, or three hours after the foundation of the offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France.

When the system automatically initiate the exchange of aircraft electronic message with the Air France computer center. Beep sent a message that indicates that there have been some failed to function in a series of tools jet plane full of passengers (number of passenger capacity of 228 people with 256 seats if the cabin is divided into three classes).

Aircraft that are flying at an altitude of 11 thousand meters and speed of 838.5 kilometers per hour is also a danger signal to the loss of pressure. Only four minutes total contact message before the plane was eventually lost until now.

Air France suspicious electrical problem that is expressed in the messages that initiate the next major disaster on the device control board wide body twin-jet plant was made in 1995. For that reason, some experts claim the flight clap quite reasonable. Mainly because of the location of the loss of aircraft including Intertropis convergence zone (ITCZ).

ITCZ is a zone vulnerable storm. Start this month also cloud Atlantis which are up to 12 kilometers found reasonable. "This is the zone when the wind from the northeast to meet the southeast's. This is the meeting place between the northern hemisphere weather and south," said Henry Margusity, meteorologis senior at AccuWeather.com.

Intensive solar radiation and sea water masses warm ekuator unique role in this zone heating the air mass, degree kelembapannya toss, and make them buoyant. With the air mass continues has entries from each hemisphere, the air mass is more buoyant large - deliver saturation water vapor through a series of lightning storms is almost constant.

Unlike other aircraft, which is available to manually control the rudder and fin aircraft, Airbus 330 is equipped with a "fly by wire". Simply send electronic signals from the computer in the aircraft for the aircraft manually.

Here is a few experts can agree on the causes of thunder as the loss of Air France. But, the condition, clap system damage must be "fly by wire" with the computer back up. "If you have an electrical problem which is worse, the instructions to the control-control aircraft can only cut off," said John Hansman, aeronautics experts.

Not all agree. Kieran Daly from Flight news site, Air Transport Intelligence, says the scenario is not possible and can not be accepted. "If that means that lightning has occurred causing a fire or beat up the whole structure of the aircraft," he said.

In fact, the former Airbus pilot, John Wiley, add, average aircraft are stumbled lightning once a year. "And they did not fall right?" he said.

Some of the other pilot did not even believe that the pilot Airbus A330-200 Air France deliberately challenging brutal storm cloud called Margusity have wind speeds of 160 kilometers per hour in it. "No pilot is flying the crazy lightning storms come through," said Tim Meldahl, a captain pilot international airlines in the United States who fly for 26 years, including 3000 hours in them with the A330 jet.

According to Meldahl, pilot duty, find a way in between the storm clouds. He observed thunder lightning in a cloud in front of bermanuver avoid ago. "If they penetrate, they can be trapped updraft," he said.

Updraft or turbulensi this must be avoided is not merely a matter of flight safety, but more comfort to the passenger flight. Each pilot must maintain stability in the altitude-speed plane discovery. If go down to pitch up in the clouds and storms reel turbulensi the air, it will fly in difficult the boundaries of the desired.

"Not to make us afraid, but certainly not very convenient for passengers in the back," said Roger Guiver, former captain in the pilot airlines British Airways, affirm.

Then, if not the clap and snare turbulensi, what is actually happening with Air France was above the Atlantic on Monday dinihari ago? Why the plane failed to function and this cabin lose pressure? As usual, it certainly seems to not be clear until the black box can be found.

Investigators combination of Brazil and France have 30 days to track the signal box flight data recorder to the four in the last minute over the Atlantic. Experts expressed the importance it can have on the seabed at the depth of 4000 meters. It took many weeks and even months to find.