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Time Running Out for AF Flight 447 Investigators

Steve Scott

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is probing two recent incidents involving Airbus A330 commercial transports that appear to have suffered similar failures reported on Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, claiming 228 victims. The probe into the disappearance of the Airbus A330 has focused on the apparent failures of air pressure sensors---pitot tubes---that measure an aircraft's speed. Data messages sent from the aircraft to an Air France maintenance computer indicated that…

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