Comments on: Mystery and speculation surround Air France flight AF447 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:10:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: t0medwards http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27976 t0medwards Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:30:31 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27976 Alan, I think you mean paragraph rather than sentence. That's the problem with pedantry, you have to be completely right all the time. Tom Alan,
I think you mean paragraph rather than sentence. That’s the problem with pedantry, you have to be completely right all the time.
Tom

]]> By: Alan Phillips http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27872 Alan Phillips Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:37:37 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27872 Mr Sandilands. Your second last sentence contains the word 'countries;' it should be 'country's.' At least pretend that you know your grammar. Alan Phillips Mr Sandilands.
Your second last sentence contains the word ‘countries;’ it should be ‘country’s.’ At least pretend that you know your grammar.
Alan Phillips

]]> By: Alan Phillips http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27871 Alan Phillips Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:35:39 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27871 Mr Sandilands, Your second last sentence contains the 'countries;' it should be 'country's.' At least pretend that you know your grammar. A. Phillips Mr Sandilands,
Your second last sentence contains the ‘countries;’ it should be ‘country’s.’ At least pretend that you know your grammar.
A. Phillips

]]> By: Ben Sandilands http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27867 Ben Sandilands Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:53 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27867 Alex, I left those accidents out only because they weren't flights that had disappeared. We knew exactly where the Viscounts were near Port Hedland and at Winton, but the other two vanished without trace until the next day. To this day there is no fixed location for the TAA flight. Very little was found, and what was found had been dispersed by the ocean and the four winds. Leslie, I notice that in the last few hours, Air France has moved from completely dismissing any possibility of criminal acts bringing down the jet to saying it remained a remote possibility. Alex,

I left those accidents out only because they weren’t flights that had disappeared. We knew exactly where the Viscounts were near Port Hedland and at Winton, but the other two vanished without trace until the next day. To this day there is no fixed location for the TAA flight. Very little was found, and what was found had been dispersed by the ocean and the four winds.

Leslie,

I notice that in the last few hours, Air France has moved from completely dismissing any possibility of criminal acts bringing down the jet to saying it remained a remote possibility.

]]> By: Glengarryboy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27847 Glengarryboy Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:43:06 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27847 Hi Ben In today's article about air crashes and those in Australia in the 60s, you forgot to mention two others - the loss of a Viscount at Winton Qld in 1966 and another Viscount at Port Hedland in WA in 1968. both total hull losses, no survivors. Probable cause in each each was engine alternator catching fire and inflaming the wing. Regards Alex Hi Ben

In today’s article about air crashes and those in Australia in the 60s, you forgot to mention two others - the loss of a Viscount at Winton Qld in 1966 and another Viscount at Port Hedland in WA in 1968. both total hull losses, no survivors. Probable cause in each each was engine alternator catching fire and inflaming the wing.

Regards

Alex

]]> By: Leslie Bursill http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27770 Leslie Bursill Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:15:04 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comment-27770 If I was a terrorist this is exactly what I would want. Complete mystery and terror. A large jet plane lost in the mid Atlantic in millions of cubic kilometres of ocean? Is there any possibility that a mid Atlantic bomb wasn't the cause? If I was a terrorist this is exactly what I would want. Complete mystery and terror. A large jet plane lost in the mid Atlantic in millions of cubic kilometres of ocean? Is there any possibility that a mid Atlantic bomb wasn’t the cause?

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