The Air France flight with 228 passengers and crew crashed into the Atlantic on Monday, en route to Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
Below are details of the doomed flight, and some of the speculation about what may be the cause of the disaster.
Flight AF 447
31 May
GMT 2203 - Air France said the aircraft, an Airbus A330-200, from the Rio airport with 216 passengers and 12 crew members.
1. Jun
GMT 0148 - The plane leaves radar Brazilian Air Force, flying to 35,000 feet at a normal speed of 453 knots.
GMT 0200 - Air France said the aircraft in a zone of turbulence with a strong storm. "
GMT 0214 - The aircraft automatically sends messages to an electrical disturbance, Air France said. Prime minister François Fillon said that the messages were sent regularly over a period of three minutes in all systems not in order. "The Brazilian authorities are reported also in news that a loss of pressure in the airplane. Mayday or distress signal received.
GMT 0220 - Flight controllers expect upgraded aircraft. Nothing happens. Shortly thereafter, not to the airspace Senegal.
GMT 0910 - through the ground plane in Paris but never achieved. A half hour later, said the Air France plane has disappeared.
Possible scenarios
What about the airplane that was brutal and devastating. These are just some of the potential problems.
STORM - Air France said that a combination of circumstances which have caused the accident, particularly lightning and turbulence. The plane flew at a very stormy that change throughout Ecuador, known as "convergence" intertropical zone.
The time in contact with the experts designated by Reuters and confirmed online storms in the region and that the plane flew through storms to three groups.
The pilots fly around the towers of the evil, wherever possible, even if conditions were rough, the source told Reuters two Lufthansa aircraft with the same, only before and after the Air France plane indicates that no one thought that the unusually bad weather or dangerous. [ID: nL1719357]
Experts also say that planes are designed to lightning, but a direct hit that could have disrupted the aircraft radar and radio, which could explain the "blackout" of communication.
LePoint.fr news site said Tuesday that a number of external sensors on the level seemed to have frozen, which could have endangered the cockpit readings. There was no confirmation of this.
TURBULENCE - When the aircraft was crashed by "natural causes", and then the turbulence is the most likely cause. An article about how www.weathergraphics.com storm suddenly isolated cells can lead to serious unrest, adding that "young updrafts" which by this phenomenon are difficult to detect and can be very strong. Some of the Aviation experts have parallels with an accident when in 2006 Russian plane crashed to earth near the Ukrainian border to take a storm and turbulence.
Technical failure - not the "Black Box" is impossible to know what role, if any, technical problems have played in the accident. While the disruption was by plane, it is impossible to say whether it is the cause of the accident, or a side effect of other problems.
Terrorism - The Air France, and ministers say they can not speak but have stressed there is no indication terrorism was involved. An explosion would be the sudden loss of the aircraft, but for more than 24 hours after it no longer, there were no public statements claiming responsibility.
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