Air France Flight 447 Vanished in the Atlantic Ocean

[Airbus A330-203 - the same plane model as flight 447]

The last known report about flight 447 is that it is traveling in a storm. The pilots also reported to air traffic controllers that they are experiencing turbulence. Questions could raise about why the pilots let the plane travel directly to a severe storm.

I have watched almost all the episodes of National Geographic's Air Crash Investigation (Mayday) and I have wild guess why the plane crashed.

Airbus manufactures one of the safest planes and still this plane (flight 447) crashed. There was one episode in the Air Crash Investigation (Kid in the Cockpit) where the plane dives to the ground and crashed. That plane crashed because the pilot and co-pilot tries to save the plane by controlling it all by themselves in fact, that particular Airbus model is designed to save its own from a deadly dive. The two conflicting controls (the crew and the Airbus autopilot/autosave) was a recipe for disaster.

Now talking back to the plane, I have to consider one possibility (I think this was already discuessed in Reuters). Pilots are trained not to fly a plane in a storm but still this flight went head on to the storm. The storm was very far from the ground so ground controllers cannot see that the plane is heading to it. Almost all commercial planes (including all Airbus models) are equipped with radar that can track almost all kinds of weather disturbances. With this, the pilot and co-pilot should or could see the storm even miles away from it. Still it went to the storm. The pilot reports to ground controllers that there are lightning in the area. Normally, almost all planes are designed not to be hit by lightning. Even if a plane is strucked by a lightning, the passengers won't barely notice it because lightning will just pass to the whole thing.

My guess is that the plane was strucked by a lightning and some electronic devices has been disabled or not working properly and one of the devices that has been disabled is the radar. This could be one possible reason why the crew didn't notice that they are going to a storm. Series of catastrophy reaches its peak when the plane was already in the low pressure area. With some instruments not working properly and it was night time, this could be a possible reason why Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Ghost Plane - Helios Airways Flight 522

Helios Airways Flight 522 is circling above Athens, Greece for 2 hours. Air traffic controllers tries to contact the plane but received no response. Two F-16 fighter jet of the Hellenic Air Force was sent to look what's happening inside the plane. F16 Pilots were shocked, all of the passengers and crew of the aircraft are unconscious and oxygen masks are deployed. There was still someone moving in the cockpit and tries to maneuver the jet. The pilot of the fighter jet tries to contact Helios Airways flight 522 but the plane starts descending then crashed to a hillside. All 121 people on board died.

What adds mystery to the crash is that all of the passengers are still alive until the plane touches the ground.

Watch "Air Crash Investigation - Ghost Plane" at YouTube and find out what really happend to Helios Airways Flight 522.

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Mystery Flight - British Airways Flight 009

Smoke has engulfed the cabin, engines are shutting down one by one, radios are not working, and the most mysterious of all, Saint Elmo's fire covers the whole Boeing 747 jet. All of these incidents happens at 37,000 feet and all of the plane crew are clueless. No air travel has experienced all of these phenomenon at the same time. Also the appearance of Saint Elmo's fire at a very high altitude is quite creepy.

When all of the 4 engines of the Boeing 747 plane shuts off, the plane glides and descends slowly. The pilot decided to make an emergency landing at an airport near Jakarta, Indonesia. When the plane is already at low altitude, the presence of the mysterious fire vanishes. The moment the pilot sees the airport, he noticed that the window of the cockpit is deeply scratched and the transparency effect of the window is very low. Still the plane manages to land safely to the airport.

Watch the full episode of "Air Crash Investigation - All Engines Failed" at YouTube and discover what was that Saint Elmo's fire and why did it caused many problems to the jet.

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Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - Worst Case Scenario that Could Happen to an Airplane

April 28, 1988

A large section of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 has been ripped off during flight. Excessive decompression was experienced by the passengers. Biologically, humans cannot breathe at 24,000 feet (less than 10,000 feet is the breathing altitude for humans). During the incident, the plane is still climbing to its assigned altitude so the passengers are still on their seat belts. The crew has still full control of the plane and made a successful emergency landing at Kahului Airport. Amazingly, only one died in this very rare air accident, a flight attendant (was sucked out of the plane) who was giving passengers drinks.


Watch the full Air Crash Investigation of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (National Geographic)

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National Geographic's Air Crash Investigation of Philippine Airlines Flight 434

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December 11, 1994 - Philippine Airlines Flight 434 from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Manila, Philippines) with one stop to Mactan-Cebu International Airport (Cebu, Phillippines) traveling to Narita International Airport (Narita, Japan) exploded midair killing one passenger. The explosion tore out a 20 square centimeters of the fuselage causing a decompression (similar to a balloon with a small hole). The bomb was placed under the seat of the person who died (Haruki Ikegami) which also injured other 10 passengers near him. The Boeing 747 made a successful emergency landing in Naha, Okinawa one hour after the bomb exploded.

The device used to bomb the large aircraft was constructed using a casio digital watch. The bomb that was assembled by Ramzi Yousef in the aircraft's lavatory is termed as 'Mark II', a micro bomb. Yousef was planning to bomb 11 more aircraft in the same manner but Manila Police discovered his plans and was arrested one month later in Pakistan.

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