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  2. Oct 13, 2014 · Two out of three Air France pilots were sleeping minutes before their plane plunged into the sea with the loss of all 228 people on board. Details of the last moments of Flight 447, which claimed ...

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    Arthur Coakleywas returning home on the missing Air France plane following a four-week stint on a Brazilian oil rig. Patricia, his wife of 34 years, said he had been booked on to other flights only for his travel arrangements to be changed. Breaking down in tears yesterday, the 58-year-old said: ‘I still have hope he is out there on a life raft. I ...

    Neil Warrior, 48, a PR executive with Mazda who lived in Cologne, but was from London, was also on the flight. Frans Danner, a colleague, said: ‘He was with some friends on a trip taking in Brazil and Argentina. ‘He was a gentleman – incredibly polite and never angry. He had worked all over the world.’

    Graham Gardner, a 52-year- old oil worker, was travelling home to Renfrewshire in Scotland. His wife Joyce, 51, said he was a ‘ loving, caring and laid-back man – nothing fazed him’. She added: ‘Although we don’t have children, he was very much a family man and loved playing with all the children in our extended family.’

    Aisling Butler, from County Tipperary, Jane Deasy, of Dublin, and Eithne Walls, from Belfast, were travelling together. Dr Walls had performed on Broadway with the Riverdance troupe just before she began medical studies. A Welsh woman friend of the three, who trained together in Dublin, was on the plane but has not been named.

  3. Jun 3, 2009 · June 2, 2009. They were dancers and doctors, engineers and executives, and even royalty. Many were parents, and eight were children. The passengers on the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 were...

  4. Dec 9, 2011 · As the flight neared the line of massive thunderstorms straddling the Inter Tropical Convergence, any passenger who happened to be awake would probably have felt some light turbulence.

  5. Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330 .

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  7. Sep 21, 2023 · What really happened to Air France 447? Black box transcripts reveal chaos in the cockpit that led to the June 2009 crash—one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.