Air France 447
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Executive Interviews | Air France 447 | USAF Tanker
| Produced | Length | Play | Title | Documents | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/7/2009 | N/A | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 11 – Airbus presentation dated 26-28 September 2006. Unreliable Speed – Latest Improvements. Presented by Sourya Kahoul and Marie-Helene Combes. |
Airbus, unreliable speed, ADR check | ||
| 07/02/2009 | 66min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 10 – An audio review of the BEA report with two Airbus FBW pilots. Possibly the most complete analysis you can hear outside official channels in about an hour. |
AF447, Air France, Airbus | ||
| 07/02/2009 | N/A | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 9 – Here is the interim report released today by Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses in France. |
AF447, Air France, Airbus | ||
| 06/29/2009 | N/A | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 8 – Here are some operational information telexes from Airbus that discuss the pitot issues. Sent by Captain Marc Parisis and Patrick Glapa. Also Airbus Service Information Letter (Nov 22 1999) plus Airbus TFU (Nov 1996). |
Doc 1 | Thales, AF447, Air France, Airbus | |
| 06/23/2009 | N/A | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 7 – Three documents pertaining to Air France. PFR447 is another ACARS listing that shows the pitot as an early area of note in the messages. AF447_3.pdf is a page from Air France that describes pitot issues with A340s with respect to water ingress. AF447_4.pdf is the next page of this document. Note the dates on the two PDF pages are from 2008. |
PFR447 | AF447, A330, Air France, crash, ACARS, Airbus | |
| 06/23/2009 | 20min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 6 – Richard Hayden is president of AeroMechanical Services Ltd. in Calgary Alberta. His firm is involved with the business of moving data off aircraft – lots of data. He explains the possibility of moving up to 88 data points off an aircraft and where the data could be sent – even to a CEO's cellphone. Mr. Hayden believes the world would benefit from greater data flows off aircraft, especially in a crisis. |
AF447, ACARS, telemetry | ||
| 06/12/2009 | 17min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 5 – Robert Francis is a former Vice Chairman of the NTSB and has deep expertise in aircraft crashes. He worked on TWA 800, Valujet592 and KAL 801. Mr. Francis shares his thoughts on data links from planes in light of AF447. |
AF447, A330, Air France, crash, recovery, data links, Airbus | ||
| 06/10/2009 | 16min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 4 – We discuss deep water recovery with the pioneer of this activity, Dr. John Craven. Craven has had more than 40 years of experience in the innovation, development, design, construction and operational deployment of major oceanic systems. While working with the Navy, he helped pioneer the use of Bayesian search techniques to locate objects lost at sea (Bayesian search theory). He was an instrumental part of the U.S Navy's search for the missing hydrogen bomb lost off Palomares, Spain in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash and in the search for the submarine Scorpion, lost off of the Azores. |
AF447, A330, Air France, crash, recovery, debris field | ||
| 06/10/2009 | N/A | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 3 – We created a document that adds considerably to the podcast in Part 2 below. The Part 2 podcast has some statements which we are trying to clarify. We have |
AF447, A330, Air France, crash, ACARS, Airbus | ||
| 6/8/2009 | 20min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 2 of a series on the AF447 tragedy. We discuss the ACARS data, line by line, with an avionics engineer familiar with the Honeywell ACARS system. He explains the messages he understands (he is not with Air France or Airbus) and gives the listener a perspective of what each message means. |
AF447, A330, Air France, crash, ACARS, Airbus | ||
| 6/05/2009 | 17min | PUBLIC SERVICE Part 1 of a series on the AF447 tragedy. We discuss long haul over water flights with an experienced commercial pilot, Doug Willey. Doug explains the pre-flight procedures as well as how the flight tracks its route from departure to destination, picking its way through weather. |
AF447, crash, aviation, airlines, ADS-B, Airbus |
