My heart goes out to the families of the passengers and crew of the Air France airliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. Tim Vasquez, who used to do tropical en-route weather forecasting for the US Air Force, does a fascinating analysis of the weather along the route of the doomed Air France flight. It’s well worth checking out his analysis which seems to be much more reasonable than traditional media reports. I agree with his assertion that it was probably severe turbulence that destroyed the plane and that other factors such as icing, lightning, or engine flameout due to ice or water ingestion are unlikely.
Furthermore, many weather experts and pilots have offered very illuminating comments to Tim Vasquez’s web page.
I do hope that the French Navy is successful using their considerable resources to locate the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder and that the data they recover helps solve the mystery of this terrible disaster.
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1 Reika // Jun 4, 2009 at 10:55 am
Thanks for the link to Tim Vasquez’s analysis…..fascinating! Even though I didn’t understand the maps or some of his technical language, he did a very good job of explaining.
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