Air France 447: What the Black Boxes Revealed After 2 Years

At 02:10 UTC, Air France 447 stopped being a normal flight and started sending warnings. On June 1, 2009, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared over the Atlantic with 228 people on board. The last automated record included one position report and 24 ACARS maintenance messages before contact was lost. This documentary rebuilds the accident chain from the BEA record: pitot icing, unreliable airspeed, autopilot disconnect, alternate law, a sustained stall, and the 3.5-minute descent from about 38,000 feet. It also follows the two-year search that found the wreckage nearly 2.5 miles down, and the flight recorders recovered in May 2011. The evidence points away from a mystery breakup and toward a harder question: why did trained pilots hold a stalled, airworthy jet nose-up all the way to the ocean? Chapters 0:00 02:10 UTC: the plane starts talking 1:42 The Trigger: ice where the sensors needed air 3:23 From managed flight to manual confusion 4:59 Three and a half minutes Nose-Up 6:32 Theory One: sensor failure 7:58 Theory Two: automation handover 9:29 Theory Three: crew resource and stall recognition 11:11 The ocean held the record for two years 12:47 2.5 miles Down: the recorders come back 14:19 What the record explains, and what it doesn't #AirFrance447 #AF447 #AviationHistory #BlackBox #DarkHorizonCases More from Dark Horizon: MH370: 239 People Vanished on a Boeing 777. It Kept Flying for 7 Hours    • MH370: 239 People Vanished on a Boeing 777...   New cases every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.