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A statement issued by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the agency has accepted an invitation from the French aviation accident investigation authority, the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA), to assist in the investigation of Air France Flight 447, the A330-200 that appears to have crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in the very early hours of 1 June 2009.
Wreckage presumed to be from the missing Airbus (registration F-GZCP) has been spotted along the expected route of flight. The plane was operating a trip between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.
An Air France plane is missing over the Atlantic and is thought to be crashed somewhere between South America and Africa. The jet is an Airbus A330, Air France Flight 447, operating a trip between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.
Contact with the GE CF6-80 powered jet was lost after the receipt of an automated message reporting electrical failure and loss of cabin pressure. The plane was not heard from again and so far no ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter) beacon has been detected.
Published reports have indicated that the plane entered an area of intense tropical convective storm activity shortly before it was believed to have experienced the in-flight emergency. Other reports claim the jet was struck by lightning but such assertions are premature at best at this stage, and unlikely to have brought the aircraft down.
There are 228 passengers and crew aboard and the area thought to be the location of the aircraft is known to be extremely deep open ocean. This would complicate any investigation and make recovery of the so-called black boxes more challenging.
The accident will likely fall under the jurisdiction of aviation authorities in France.
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Boeing has a new arrow in its quiver of international fighter offerings: a stealthy F-15 they are calling the F-15SE or Silent Eagle.
What's new in this configuration are features that may reduce the aircraft's radar signature relative to earlier model F-15s. The most obvious external change is the new conformal fuel tanks that can carry weapons like the AIM-9 and AIM-120 air-to-air missiles, or, ground attack payloads such as the JDAM and small diameter bomb. The munitions are carried inside the tanks hidden from radar. This according to Boeing in its announcement of the new product.
There has been a plane crash of a FedEx cargo jet while landing at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. Early Monday morning, March 23, 2009, local time, a FedEx Boeing MD-11 (registration unknown) aircraft arriving from China crashed on landing at Narita. The aircraft burst into flames and burned. The fate of the crew is not known as we go to press.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending a team of investigators to Japan to assist in the investigation of the accident.
Airline News - Video of US Airways crash in the Hudson River in New York.
The crash took place just after the aircraft took off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C.
Some published reports indicate the pilot told air traffic controllers there had been a double bird strike which resulted in a loss of power in both of the airliner's jet engines.
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Officials have confirmed that the airplane flown by Steve Fossett, as well as pieces of identifying personal property, have been found by hikers in the Mammoth Lakes area of California.
His body has not been located. (See update 10/2/2008 below.)
Steve Fossett has been missing since September 2007.
The Bellanca 8KCAB (N240R) has been missing since September 3, 2007, when Fossett departed Yerington, Nevada for a local flight, according to the NTSB.
The Safety Board also said that the wreckage was located at about 10,000 feet of elevation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the vicinity of Mammoth Lakes, California.
UPDATE 10/2/2008: Human Remains Found Near Wreckage.
Airline News - Video of the Spanair MD-82 plane crash in Madrid shows the aircraft barely getting off the ground, then skidding and erupting in fire and smoke.
The crash took place just as the aircraft began to lift off and it appears failure to deploy the flaps may be the primary cause, according to published and broadcast accounts.
The plane was operating as Flight JK5022 and bound for the Canary Islands.
