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The terrible circumstances surrounding the June 1, 2009, crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean provide a chilling look into the mayhem and terror that erupted in the cockpit during the last minutes of the aircraft.
The Airbus A330-203 crashed into the ocean, killing all 228 persons on board as the plane traveled from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
The frantic talks between Captain Marc Dubois and his two co-pilots, Pierre-Cédric Bonin and David Robert, as they confronted the plane’s imminent demise are captured in chilling audio recordings taken from the cockpit.
Only the pilots’ terrified screams remain as proof of their last moments when the plane vanished without any authorities being notified.
Debris from the Air France plane was found floating in the water days after the tragedy, which led to a two-year, about £27 million hunt for the black box recorders.
Important details about what had gone wrong with the flight were made public by these recorders.
As the flight tried to maneuver through a storm on route to Paris, the recordings revealed that the plane’s speed sensors, or pitot tubes, had frozen up and became clogged.
The plane’s systems generated inaccurate data as a result of this problem, which eventually turned off the autopilot and left the pilots struggling with perplexing speed and altitude readings.
The pilots took the disastrous choice to return to manual control of the aircraft when confronted with bad weather and inaccurate data.
The aircraft entered an aerodynamic stall as a result of their tragic error of pointing the jet’s nose upward rather than downward.
The pilots’ frantic chatter as the jet fell from the skies conveyed their knowledge of the seriousness of the situation.
The pilots were confused and horrified by what was happening, and their last minutes in the cockpit were filled with panic and despair.
In the end, all of the passengers and crew perished as the 205-ton aircraft fell more than 11,500 meters from the sky in less than four minutes.
Air France and Airbus were found not guilty of manslaughter in 2023 by a Paris court for the deaths of the passengers.
However, the instance raises unanswered concerns about the intricacies of aviation safety and the unpredictability of flying in difficult circumstances.