The trial of flight AF447 from Rio to Paris (228 lifeless) opens this Monday within the felony court docket. Airbus and Air France are being prosecuted for manslaughter. The pilots had been betrayed by the flight knowledge.
Greater than 13 years after the crash of the Airbus A 330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009, which killed 228 folks, Airbus and Air France are on trial, beginning at the moment, October 10, and ending December 8, 2022. They’ve been charged with involuntary manslaughter, and the courts are accusing them of “misconduct”, particularly for not having taken under consideration “the seriousness of the a number of incidents of lack of pace indication that occurred on 15 different flights between Could 2008 and Could 2009”.
“The pilots’ dialog”
The invention of the black containers in 2011, two years after the crash, allowed us to higher perceive the collection of human and technical failures that led to the catastrophe. At subject had been the Pitot probes. These tubes positioned on the entrance of the plane enable to measure the pace. Whereas crossing a thunderstorm, the probes most likely froze, not offering helpful data to the pilots.
Whereas the airplane is near the Equator, the pilot in perform and the co-pilot come to set off the Toga process, to be adopted in case of stall. Right here is their dialog revealed by the black containers.
It’s 2 hours 11 minutes and three seconds GMT :
“I’m in Toga eh?”, asks the pilot on responsibility.
“We nonetheless have the engines. What happens?”, solutions the co-pilot.
2 h 11 min 32 :
The pilot on responsibility: “I don’t have management of the airplane anymore. I don’t have management of the airplane in any respect.”
2:11:43
The captain enters the cockpit: “Hey, what are you (doing)?”
Pilot on responsibility: “What’s occurring? I don’t know. I don’t know what’s occurring.
2:12:04.
Pilot on responsibility: “I really feel like we’re going loopy quick, proper? What do you suppose?”
2:12:13.
Co-pilot: “What do you suppose? What do you suppose? What ought to we do?
2:12:15.
The captain: “I don’t know, it’s happening”.
2 h 12 min 27.
The co-pilot: “You go up… You go down, down, down, down.
Pilot on responsibility: “I’m happening now?
2:12:32.
The captain: “No, you’re going up there!
2:12:33.
Pilot on responsibility: “Am I going up? Okay, let’s go down.
2:12:44.
The captain: “That’s not potential”.
2:13:25.
Pilot on responsibility: “What’s … How come we’re nonetheless happening at full pace?
2:13:39.
Co-pilot: “Pull up, pull up, pull up, pull up.
2:13:40.
Pilot on responsibility: “However I’ve been at full nostril up since earlier than.”
Captain: “No, no, no, don’t pull up”.
The co-pilot: ” So, go down “.
2 h 13 min 45.
The copilot: ” So, give me the controls, I’ll take the controls “.
2 h 14 min 05.
The captain: “Cautious, you’re pitching up”.
The co-pilot (who has taken the controls): “I’m pitching up?
The pilot in cost: ” Effectively, it’s best to, we’re at 4 thousand toes “.
2:14:18.
The captain: “Come on, shoot!
Pilot on responsibility: “Come on, pull, pull, pull, pull.”
2:14:28.
Finish of the recordings.
In lower than 4 minutes, the A330 crashes into the Atlantic. There have been no survivors. 13 years later, the households of the victims, but in addition the pilots’ unions, need justice to ascertain who was accountable. In order that such a tragedy doesn’t occur once more.
