Wreckage from Air France flight 447 confirmed spotted, possible bomb in the story now.
After an initial sighting that might have been wreckage from Air France (AF) flight 447 military search aircraft were directed to the area for a closer search. It’s now being reported that they have found the wreckage of the plane. Coming to light now, however, is another piece of information that’s a bit more troubling:
Just days before the mysterious crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian authorities reportedly delayed a similar Air France flight from Buenos Aires to Paris after the airline received a bomb threat over the phone.
Police and officials at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza Airport spent 90 minutes inspecting the threatened plane for explosives on the evening of May 27, but found nothing, according to a Brazilian news report.
A bomb on board would explain the sudden and catastrophic failures as well as lightning, of course. The real answer here is to find the black boxes since, without a real crash scene, it’s going to be extremely difficult to reconstruct the flight forensically. They did so with TWA flight 800 years ago but there was a difference. Flight 800 went down in water that was 120 feet deep. AF477′s suspected crash was into water that is literally miles deep. To find those boxes in that kind of environment would be a miracle, literally, and even if they were found there are still places in the ocean our technology can’t reach.
More details as they come.
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[...] As I mentioned in my last post on the matter, the thought that a bomb might have been involved brought a new dimension to the investigation. Add that now to this purported datapoint and it starts to sound serious. Some have said that the lack of a terror group claiming responsibility for the crash makes this less likely but there are terrorists out there who don’t, as a rule, make such claims. One very well-known example of this is Al Qaeda. [...]
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