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Air France 447

Fear Of Flying: Top Ten Most Mysterious Airplane Incidents

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

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Glynnis MacNicol

The most recent addition to this list is last week's report of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 plane, which overshot its destination by 150 miles.

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Air France 447: Live Special Investigation

John T. Halliday | Posted 10.22.2009 | Technology

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John T. Halliday

Dumb airplane computers down, and let pilots be pilots. Or trust your family's lives to mutinous electrons over human neurons.

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Air France 447: A Cockpit China Syndrome

John T. Halliday | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology

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John T. Halliday

My conclusions about the causes of the Air France 447 tragedy have been shaped not just by my decades as an international airline captain and cockpit computer analyst, but by learning from world-class experts. Here are a few of their voices.

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HAL -- The Cockpit Serial Killer

John T. Halliday | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

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John T. Halliday

Let's shift the balance of power in the cockpit back to humans. As MIT's R. John Hansman explains, "Less is more." Dumb cockpit computers down; let pilots be pilots

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Air France 447: A Cockpit China Syndrome

John T. Halliday | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology

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John T. Halliday

You feel silly; you Googled the odds of dying in a plane crash: one in thirteen million. You'll take those. But then again, pilots don't call these 'Scarebuses' for nothing.

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Air France Flight 447 Did Not Break Up, Fell Intact Into Sea: French Investigator

AP | GREG KELLER and EMMA VANDORE | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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LE BOURGET, France — Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people abo...

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Air France Flight 447 Search To Continue

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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LE BOURGET, France — The arduous mid-Atlantic search for the remains of Air France Flight 447 will go on as long as there is hope of finding the...

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Air France Speed Sensors Arrived Days Before Crash

Bloomberg | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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Air France received a delivery of new speed sensors for its Airbus SAS A330 planes just days before 228 people died in a crash that may have been trig...

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Air France Bodies Flown To Brazil To Be Identified

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and GREG KELLER | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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RECIFE, Brazil — Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on ...

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Travelers Who Missed Air France Flight Speak

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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PARIS — A reservation mix-up, an overbooking and a Brazilian cabbie's passion for soccer are all that saved some would-be passengers on Air Fran...

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Brazil's Navy Reaches The Air France Scene

BBC | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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The hunt for clues as to the fate of an Air France jet lost in an Atlantic storm has intensified with the arrival of the first Brazilian navy vessel....

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Air France Wreckage Confirmed By Brazilian Official

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site...

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Flight 447: Stormy Seas, Heavy Clouds Hamper Search For Air France Jet

AP | FEDERICO ESCHER and BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site...

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Air France Flight 447: Relatives Gather At Charles De Gaulle, Rio de Janeiro's International Airport (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Relatives of passengers on missing Air France Flight 447, the missing Airbus A330 flying from Rio to Paris arrived at airports in France and Brazil th...

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