PARIS, July 11 (Xinhua) — An Air France passenger plane flying from Rio to Paris made an emergency landing in northeastern Brazil Saturday night after a hoax bomb alert.
All 405 passengers and 18 crew members were safely evacuated from AF Flight 443, said Jorge Andrade, a spokesman for airport authority Infraero in the Brazilian city of Recife….
By: nJayM - 12th July 2010 at 23:36
I have read some of the other news reports and in fact the reported female voice of the bomb hoaxer belongs to a very sick person indeed.The temporarily grounded AF443 flight was flying the same route as the crashed AF447.
For the bereaved relatives of crashed AF447 this is a very, very sick joke.
Given that Air France is desperately along with many other interested oraganisations trying to accurately locate and recover the FDR and CVR from the crashed AF447 wreckage on the ocean floor it makes it even more sick. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=100096
The Brazillian authorities should make every effort to locate the hoaxer and jail them.
By: tenthije - 12th July 2010 at 21:28
Perhaps the photographer was indoors and the patters are reflections on the windows?
By: nJayM - 12th July 2010 at 21:17
I tried finding other pics but the few (2/3) I located on the Web all seem to show the same strange colour randomly on the aircraft. They may in fact be taken by the same photographer using the same camera, just slight variations in the angles taken.
Strange as any filter over the camera lens would give the effect all over the aircraft.
Interesting to read if anyone ever finds out as de-icing fluid in the humidity and heat of Brazil would be very strange, as PMN already comments.
By: PMN - 12th July 2010 at 12:08
I’ve certainly never seen that effect randomly appear on a photo as a result of something to do with the camera itself. It looks like it’s on the plane to me and does indeed look like de-icing fluid, but de-icing fluid in northern Brazil in July? :confused:
By: KabirT - 12th July 2010 at 11:05
the sand like substance somehow looks like the fluid used in de-icing. Although i think its just the picture that is like that. Could be wrong though.
By: cloud_9 - 12th July 2010 at 10:57
What on earth is that sand-like substance that is all over the exterior of the aircraft, or is it just the quality of the photo taken at night?
Glad things ended safely though as another tragic accident for Air France so soon after the other one would have been disastrous, even more so as it would have occurred on exactly the same route!
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