French Airliner may have been bombed

[Philobeado]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

 

[dilloduck]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

I would expect that a terrorist would claim responsibility. Dontcha think ?

 

[Navy1960]

Differences from the A340 aside from the number of engines are slight changes to the wing and internal systems, including fuel tankage. The A330 (like the A340) takes advantage of a number of technologies first pioneered on the A320, including the common advanced EFIS flightdeck with side stick controllers and flybywire computerised flight control system.
Airbus A330-300 | Airliners.net

Airplane susceptibility to common mode and common area damage is addressed by
designing the systems to both component and functional separation requirements.
This includes criteria for providing installations resistant to maintenance crew error or
mishandling, such as:
! impact of objects
! electrical faults
! electrical power failure
! electromagnetic environment
! lightning strike
! hydraulic failure
! structural damage
! radiation environment in the atmosphere
! ash cloud environment in the atmosphere
! fire
! rough or unsafe installation
http://www.laas.fr/IFIPWG/Top3/08-Yeh.pdf

Thanks to well-developed protection systems on traditional commercial jets, no airliner crash in the United States has been caused by lightning in more than 40 years. It's a remarkable record, since Boeing estimates that every commercial airplane is hit by lightning on average about twice a year.

But Boeing engineers designing the 787 face new challenges, since they are building the first commercial airframe made entirely from carbon fiber-based plastic.

The composite airframe will not readily conduct lightning away, as traditional metal ones do.



The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Building the 787 | When lightning strikes


While these are just theories one will ultimatly never know the reason of the crash and can only speculate and mourn the deaths of the passengers and crew. TWA 800 remains some would say unresolved completely to this day even though the fuel tank was the primary reason given for its demise. I have shown above a few things that could have caused AF to go down and among those could have been a FBW failure caused by an electrical fault as a result of a lightning strike. The aricraft was flying into heavy weather, we will never know without the recovery of the FDR's that are in very deep waters. Furhter to speculate on if it were an act of terrorism i.e. a bomb remains just as much a mystery and cannot be verified without long term analysis of aircraft parts that contain residue like PETN and things of this nature. To my knowledge no organization as claimed reponsiblity for this act but I could be wrong on that. Generally something of this magnitude would be quickly clamied by any number of people on the terrorist hit parade. So until such time as the FDR's can be recovered if ever, I fear this crash will remain a a mystery.

 

[Vel]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

I would expect that a terrorist would claim responsibility. Dontcha think ?

You'd think so, but, given that information would be a negative for the Obama administration, I wonder if MSM would publish it.

 

[Life_Long_Dem!]

this post seems like a conspiracy theory more than fact, especially since fox news is where it came from....

"fox news....WE SLANT THE NEWS AND DECIDE FOR YOU!"

 

[KittenKoder]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

I would expect that a terrorist would claim responsibility. Dontcha think ?

My thoughts to.

 

[wvulax]

Why would a terrorist attack on a French-Brazilian flight that had no US citizens on it and didn't crash in the US be bad PR for Obama?

 

[Lycurgus]

this post seems like a conspiracy theory more than fact, especially since fox news is where it came from....

"fox news....WE SLANT THE NEWS AND DECIDE FOR YOU!"

FOX is not the only one reporting this possibility. So stop your cheap propaganda. You should be more worried about the media cover ups for Obama's idiocy.

 

[tigerbob]

this post seems like a conspiracy theory more than fact, especially since fox news is where it came from....

"fox news....WE SLANT THE NEWS AND DECIDE FOR YOU!"

It's also on that other well known right wing mouthpiece, The Huffington Post.

Air France Bomb Threat Called In Days Before Crash

 

[DavidS]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

I would expect that a terrorist would claim responsibility. Dontcha think ?

Yeah - just like they did with the OKC Bombing in 1995... oh wait...

 

[WillowTree]

Why would a terrorist attack on a French-Brazilian flight that had no US citizens on it and didn't crash in the US be bad PR for Obama?

I think there were four US citizens onboard.

 

[WillowTree]

In this article it states that two separate debris fields were found.

Air France Bomb Threat Before Flight 447 Crash - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

I would expect that a terrorist would claim responsibility. Dontcha think ?

Fox News had a talking head on who said " you cannot draw that conclusion" he also mentioned as did Neil Cavuto that Air France had received bomb threats four days prior.. hmmmmm!

 

[Lycurgus]

These liberals piss and moan about FOX only because FOX is a threat, by not cuddling up to their Golden Cash Cow - Obama!

 

[WillowTree]

These liberals piss and moan about FOX only because FOX is a threat, by not cuddling up to their Golden Cash Cow - Obama!

No! they piss and moan cause they cannot handle the Truth! they attack anything and everyone who does not march lockstep with them.. they haven't had an original thought since the day they were born

 

[Lycurgus]

These liberals piss and moan about FOX only because FOX is a threat, by not cuddling up to their Golden Cash Cow - Obama!

No! they piss and moan cause they cannot handle the Truth! they attack anything and everyone who does not march lockstep with them.. they haven't had an original thought since the day they were born

Same difference, flip a coin!

 

[KittenKoder]

These liberals piss and moan about FOX only because FOX is a threat, by not cuddling up to their Golden Cash Cow - Obama!

No! they piss and moan cause they cannot handle the Truth! they attack anything and everyone who does not march lockstep with them.. they haven't had an original thought since the day they were born

Really? The only thing that pisses me off about Fox is their American Idol mentality and all the attention they give Obama ... every single speech ... but only if it doesn't air at the time their baby show does.

 

[WillowTree]

These liberals piss and moan about FOX only because FOX is a threat, by not cuddling up to their Golden Cash Cow - Obama!

No! they piss and moan cause they cannot handle the Truth! they attack anything and everyone who does not march lockstep with them.. they haven't had an original thought since the day they were born

Really? The only thing that pisses me off about Fox is their American Idol mentality and all the attention they give Obama ... every single speech ... but only if it doesn't air at the time their baby show does.

baby show?

 

[KittenKoder]

No! they piss and moan cause they cannot handle the Truth! they attack anything and everyone who does not march lockstep with them.. they haven't had an original thought since the day they were born

Really? The only thing that pisses me off about Fox is their American Idol mentality and all the attention they give Obama ... every single speech ... but only if it doesn't air at the time their baby show does.

baby show?

American Idol is their "baby show", as in they baby it, give it excessive air time and milk it for all it's worth.

 

[WillowTree]

Really? The only thing that pisses me off about Fox is their American Idol mentality and all the attention they give Obama ... every single speech ... but only if it doesn't air at the time their baby show does.

baby show?

American Idol is their "baby show", as in they baby it, give it excessive air time and milk it for all it's worth.

I don't watch American Idol.. it's not on the Fox News Channel,, or I musta missed it somehow!

 

[Sinatra]

this post seems like a conspiracy theory more than fact, especially since fox news is where it came from....

"fox news....WE SLANT THE NEWS AND DECIDE FOR YOU!"

It's also on that other well known right wing mouthpiece, The Huffington Post.

Air France Bomb Threat Called In Days Before Crash

Too early to say, but that information does lend a decided possibility to terrorism...