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by aerophile
03 Jun 2009, 02:41
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Air France AF447 crash into the Atlantic: Airbus A330 aircraft parts found
Replies: 168
Views: 62644

Re: Air France flight AFR447 Airbus A332 missing

The wreckage of TWA 800 was mostly recovered and reassembled by investigators but it went down in less than 50m of water off New York City.

Clearly that will not be possible for Air France 447 sitting in thousands of feet of water hundreds of miles from shore.

Given the problems of recovering ...
by aerophile
20 May 2007, 00:53
Forum: Latest aviation news
Topic: Sarkozy Makes Airbus Top priority
Replies: 5
Views: 957

Sarkozy Makes Airbus Top priority

New French President appears to have made the 'rescue of Airbus his top priority.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article1811012.ece

Are the problems more severe than imagined, France just intent on making Airbus a 'French' enterprise or Sarkozy just ...