News Articles with Category: Air France 447 Search
October 11, 2014 – via The Strategy Page
Bluefin 21s can be quickly flown to any part of the world and put to work from just about any ship with a crane (to out Bluefin into the water and take it out again for battery recharging, data transfer and any needed maintenance). A Bluefin can map about 90 square kilometers of seabed a day and the search area could ultimately grow to include over 600,000 square kilometers but for the moment the search is concentrated on 600 square kilometers of ocean bottom.
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August 16, 2011 – via AUVSI Flight Daily News
Finding objects on the sea floor is the technological equivalent of the proverbial needle in the haystack. Hard to navigate and image, Hydroid overcame the typical dilemmas of the deep, turning up two big discoveries so far this year.
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July 26, 2011 – via Cape Cod Times
The French aviation accident investigation agency partnered with experts from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Even though WHOI came up short on a previous attempt, the French felt confident they were the right team for the job. “We made some great maps and proved to ourselves we could work in that terrain,” said Dr. David Gallo, special projects coordinator at WHOI. With an average depth of two miles and terrain more rugged than the Rocky Mountains, the Alps or the Grand Canyon, it was a difficult search, Gallo said.
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May 6, 2011 – via Boing Boing
They’d barely been at the search location for a week when they found what they were looking for. On April 3, researchers spotted the plane’s debris field, 13,000 feet down, smack in the middle of a massive underwater mountain range.
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May 4, 2011 – via New York Times
Until the last few decades, the tools to explore these underwater mountains did not exist. Early submarines could go deep enough, but the terrain was impossibly forbidding. Even today, the machinery for a journey to the midocean ridge is prohibitively expensive for most teams. In the oceanography world, it is common to spend more than $1 million on an expedition, but a trip to the mountains at Tasil Point can easily cost 10 times as much and require submarines so advanced that only a handful of scientists know how to use them.
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May 3, 2011 – via Wall Street Journal
French air-crash investigators said they found and retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, less than two days after searchers found the plane’s flight data recorder.
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May 2, 2011 – via Boston Globe
French investigators said yesterday that they have retrieved a key component of one of the flight-data recorders from an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago, which was located last month by robots developed on Cape Cod.
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May 1, 2011 – via Wall Street Journal
Investigators combing the wreckage of an Air France jetliner that crashed almost two years ago said Sunday they had located and retrieved the plane’s data recorder from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
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May 1, 2011 – via Air Transport Intelligence news
The crucial cylindrical memory unit, which had been missing when the chassis of the recorder was originally located, was found during a dive operation by a remote underwater vehicle on 1 May.
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May 1, 2011 – via Network World
The crash of Air France Flight 447 remains a mystery, but clues are being found
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April 28, 2011 – via CNN
The find – which comes more than three weeks after search teams found the tail section of the aircraft — does not include the “memory unit” which holds the recorded data that could eventually help investigators determine the cause of the crash.
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April 20, 2011 – via Bloomberg News
The wreckage of the Airbus SAS A330 jet was discovered this month 3,900 meters (12,800 feet) deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil after multiple searches. Few aircraft salvage missions have probed the same depth, where the sea is perfectly black, temperatures approach freezing and water pressure is equal to the weight of a car on a postage stamp.
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April 12, 2011 – via
The French air accident investigation agency, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses (BEA), has announced that a ship from Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) will be used to recover the wreckage of Air France Airbus A330-200, F-GZCP, which crashed into the South Atlantic in the early morning of June 1, 2009.
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April 9, 2011 – via Business Week
The agency said in a statement Friday the ship Ile de Sein belonging to French company Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks has been selected to carry out the work, using a robotic underwater vehicle.
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April 5, 2011 – via Cape Cod Times
Onboard the ship we had the most sophisticated deep-sea search capabilities on the planet. The search area was a swath of ocean approximately 3,900 square miles, which made the plane a needle in a very large, very wet haystack.
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April 4, 2011 – via New York Times
The search boat, operated by about a dozen specialists from the’ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, was not equipped with appropriate equipment to recover the wreckage.
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April 4, 2011 – via UK Daily Mail
Bodies of victims of Air France flight 447 finally found in the wreckage at bottom of the Atlantic after two-year mystery
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April 4, 2011 – via Wall Street Journal
Oceanographers conducting an undersea search on Sunday located pieces of the Airbus A330 jetliner, which crashed on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people onboard. The current search, which began ten days ago, is the fourth attempt to find the plane’s wreckage.
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March 25, 2011 – via AINonline
This time a Remus 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will start by exploring the seabed in a 20-nm circle around the LKP. If needed, it will extend the radius to 40 nm.
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March 25, 2011 – via WHOI
Three REMUS 6000 vehicles will be utilized in the search for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. The vehicles will use side scan sonar to map the ocean floor in long overlapping lanes, using a survey process known as “mowing the lawn.”
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February 25, 2011 – via New Scientist
A trio of deep-sea robots are the best hope yet for finding what caused one of aviation’s most mysterious disasters.
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February 8, 2011 – via KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
Air France and Airbus have teamed up McCallum and Deep Ocean with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
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February 4, 2011 – via Associated Press
Three advanced underwater robots will begin scouring the mountainous ocean depths between Brazil and western Africa in mid-March, looking for wreckage of the Airbus A330 that went down June 1, 2009 after running into an intense high altitude thunderstorm.
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