golddustsara
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Oh my just watching the news.... how awful, thoughts with all the families involved. Just speechless.
Air France Crash?
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mrsew
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Agree with you GDS, can't imagine how the poor relatives feel not knowing what has happened to their loved ones. The passengers and crew must have been so frightened...really heartbreaking
sea_view
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Lets hope it was quick for them and they didn't know too much about it
dsophiea
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has it crashed? it just says on sky news that it is missing?
scotsmare
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It's been missing since lunchtime when it disappeared off the radar - was night time over there when it happened
dsophiea
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how awful
Equus Leather
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They reckon it was hit by a massive bolt of lightening. Will have ripped a huge hole in it I imagine...doubt anyone will have known anything about it. No human mayday signal was sent, just a computerised one saying electrical and pressure errors.
teapot
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has it crashed? it just says on sky news that it is missing?
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Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
has it crashed? it just says on sky news that it is missing?
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Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
Brandysnap
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Hi friends,
From what i understand, the automatic communication things clicked in, and said there'd been an electrical failure.
It doesn't sound good.
Apparently there were folk from many nationalities aboard, including 5 Brits, according to Orange info a few minutes ago.
I personally don't know what to think, but hope and pray it wasn't another Lockerbie type thing
With love to all those aboard, and to all those helping in the search X
From what i understand, the automatic communication things clicked in, and said there'd been an electrical failure.
It doesn't sound good.
Apparently there were folk from many nationalities aboard, including 5 Brits, according to Orange info a few minutes ago.
I personally don't know what to think, but hope and pray it wasn't another Lockerbie type thing
With love to all those aboard, and to all those helping in the search X
dsophiea
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Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
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sorry, i didn't know how long it had been missing for.
Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
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sorry, i didn't know how long it had been missing for.
teapot
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Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
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sorry, i didn't know how long it had been missing for.
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No worries, it would now have been effectively in the air for 24 hrs
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Unless it's got a never-ending supply of fuel, think we can all assume it's either crashed or landed.
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sorry, i didn't know how long it had been missing for.
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No worries, it would now have been effectively in the air for 24 hrs
cefyl
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The poor souls on the aircraft, and their friends and family now not nowing what has happend, a horrific tragedy. It must have been a catastrophic failure and so sudden for the pilot not even have had time to send out any kind of mayday.
Having been on flights many time through severe thunder / lightening storms and wondered at the brilliance of the flight crew and construction of the aircraft, you trust in their ability to keep the plane in the air. So sad and so sorry for the families left behind.
Having been on flights many time through severe thunder / lightening storms and wondered at the brilliance of the flight crew and construction of the aircraft, you trust in their ability to keep the plane in the air. So sad and so sorry for the families left behind.
Puppy
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Quadro
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seems they may have found some parts of the plane now??? cant imagine how the relative feel its a terrible disaster
MagicMelon
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Quadro - Where does it say that? Link?
I would think it was very quick TBH. Thing is, aeroplanes have landed in water and people have survived (yes, the recent Hudson River one but also that terrorist one where it crashed into the sea - it was in pieces but some people still survived). I know its very very unlikely though
Dont like seeing stuff like this as I come from a family of airline pilots...
I would think it was very quick TBH. Thing is, aeroplanes have landed in water and people have survived (yes, the recent Hudson River one but also that terrorist one where it crashed into the sea - it was in pieces but some people still survived). I know its very very unlikely though
Dont like seeing stuff like this as I come from a family of airline pilots...
teapot
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BBC website is reporting that they've seen plane seats and white bits floating in the sea.
Even if people had survived the initial crash, you wouldn't last 24hrs + in the Atlantic Ocean
Even if people had survived the initial crash, you wouldn't last 24hrs + in the Atlantic Ocean
Quadro
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8079122.stm and its on the tv i think hope they have found it
Paddywhack
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Thoughts goes out to their families..
Vicki_Krystal
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I shuddered when i heard what had happened.
Aircraft get hit all the time by lightening - i read somewhere that if you add up every flight around the world every day about 60 with get hit by lightening...
Im crew and have been struck by lightening once on one of my flights - loud bang but absoulutly NO structural damage to the aircraft at all.
This is so tragic and so unexpected that such a modern aircraft can be brought down by something that happens so regulary.
Aircraft get hit all the time by lightening - i read somewhere that if you add up every flight around the world every day about 60 with get hit by lightening...
Im crew and have been struck by lightening once on one of my flights - loud bang but absoulutly NO structural damage to the aircraft at all.
This is so tragic and so unexpected that such a modern aircraft can be brought down by something that happens so regulary.
patty19
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At least seven young children and one baby, were on board that plane
An 11-year-old boy who was a student at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol was also on the plane.
A friend of mine had a work colleague who was also on the flight. He was not supposed to be on it but was trying to get home a couple of days earlier. He was to fly from paris to the UK.
It's terribly sad for all the passengers and their poor families but my heart hurts for those children.
I just pray it was quick.
An 11-year-old boy who was a student at Clifton College Preparatory School in Bristol was also on the plane.
A friend of mine had a work colleague who was also on the flight. He was not supposed to be on it but was trying to get home a couple of days earlier. He was to fly from paris to the UK.
It's terribly sad for all the passengers and their poor families but my heart hurts for those children.
I just pray it was quick.
