For those of us who don't follow news much, there's more factual detail here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447</a><p><i>There were 228 people aboard the flight including three pilots and nine other cabin crew. The passengers were one infant, seven children, 82 women and 126 men</i><p>:(
Just the idea of a plane vanishing, gone, with well over 200 people on board, boggles the mind. No distress calls?<p>I can only imagine the sudden chaos that erupted.<p>Technology v. Nature.
As a pilot, I'm tempted to speculate on various crashes.<p>I've learned that this is a bad habit.<p>Best case, you get the cause right, and you look like a jerk. Worst case, you get the cause wrong, and you look like a jerk.<p>I will say that in general, flameouts due to ice ingestion and the complete fly-by-wire system of the Airbus have been generating interesting conversations in the aviation community for some time. Whether this has anything to do with the current situation is anybody's guess. I feel very sorry for all of those involved.
Many things he discusses are well above my level of comprehension but turbulence is likely to be the main cause of the crash although other planes passed that same region without problems.
It sounds likely to me that heavy turbulence just 'broke' inner electronic equipment/circuits/meters/connections?
"Terrorism has been ruled out"<p>I hate it when they try to manipulate mass opinion when they haven't even found the damn plane.<p>The first thing that comes to my mind is a bomb in a suitcase blew the plane in pieces.<p>Occam's razor.