Hi to all. The French Air Accidents Investigation Board (BEA) released yesterday July 5 their Final Report on the accident of an Air France Airbus A330-200 that plunged into the South Atlantic ocean a couple of hours or so after departing Rio do Janeiro/Galeao airport as flight AF 447, inbound to Paris/Charles de Gaulle airport, on July 1 2009.

I've downloaded this report from BEA's website. It's available in French (the official one) and in English. I've begun reading it and it promises a lot. 224 pages plus 12 annexes. The picture on the left is the cover of the document.

For those of you interested in Air Safety, just to say there are some important latent faults in the roots of the event, and that some of the barriers established (the Ransom Model) didn't work at all in this case: procedures and training.

You can get your copy of the report and annexes in English at:

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/flight.af.447.php

You can get it too in French, if you wish (who uses French nowadays for aviation matters? It's simple: the French themselves, and nobody else... :-)))

I love you all. Have a nice night.

TWRman