Air France KLM has released a summary of a new three year transformation plan to the end of 2014 to achieve profitability, but it doesn’t mention how its going to restore its dismal image, writes Ben Sandilands.
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AF447 wreckage gives up its voice recorder
The cockpit voice recorder has now been recovered from the wreckage of Air France flight AF447, joining the flight data recorder retrieved earlier from the depths of the mid Atlantic, writes Ben Sandilands.
Fatal Air France memory module recovered
Since 1950, Air France has tallied 1247 fatalities in 18 crashes, one of the bloodiest operational records in aviation.
AF447: A head crash in the cockpit, ice on the outside, and too much freight?
Some gravely serious allegations about the conduct of Air France flight AF447, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board last June, have been published. Ben Sandilands examines the damning report.
The AF447 disaster: there were known issues
The second interim report on the Air France flight AF447 that killed all 228 people on board has been released. May it serve as a warning for aviation bean counters looking for cost saving in flight maintenance, says Ben Sandilands.
Angry Flyers Lounge: Loyalty schemes that disappoint
A frustrated Qantas passenger and frequent flyer unleashes his fury in the Angry Flyers Lounge. Time to remember: frequent flyer programs are nothing to do with customer loyalty and everything to do with making cash.
AF447 crash: Air France traps itself with leaked memo
The latest response by Air France management to the June crash of flight AF447 is a joke, says Ben Sandilands: a “strongly worded” memo telling pilots to be “more vigilant” about safety procedures.
US lawyer sues Airbus (and everyone else) over Air France disaster
A US lawyer is suing everyone who made anything that was part of the Air France Airbus flight that crashed into the mid Atlantic in June, reports Ben Sandilands.
AF447 disaster: was the radar really working?
There is one strange but not necessarily consequential omission in the official interim report into the June’s Air France disaster, says Ben Sandilands: nowhere does it confirm that the weather radar was switched on.
Pilots challenge Air France with their AF 447 crash ‘truth’
Two Air France pilots have challenged Airbus and the French air crash investigators to face up to critical factors in the June 1 crash of flight AF447 in the mid-Atlantic, which killed all 228 people on board.
France calls for airlines blacklist. Hypocritical non?
For chauvinism in air transport an award should be given to French Secretary of State for transport Dominique Bussereau who called for a global blacklist of unsafe airlines this week. Um, Air France anyone?
First report on AF447 disaster lands
The preliminary report into the AF447 mid-Atlantic crash says the jet didn’t break apart before it hit the sea, writes Ben Sandilands.
Sackwatch 12: Unemployment figures may be staying put for a while…
Crikey continues to track the job-loss carnage.
Mapping the AF447 debris
The French accident investigator has released a map of of the wreckage and victims recovered from AF447. It shows the scale of the task still ahead, says Ben Sandilands.
AF447 investigation draws closer to the truth
French investigators say they are getting closer to figuring out just what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash, with suspicion still strong that a computer bug may lie at the heart of the problem.
AF447: Any last words?
The silence that surrounds one item of information in the Air France disaster is notable: what exactly was said between the captain and the operations centre in Paris in the last voice communication?
AF447: what we know so far
If a reasonable guess is to made about what was happening on AF447 that night, it was that the jet was flying at perhaps the worst possible speed into a storm cell. Ben Sandilands explains.
AF447: Wrong speed, wrong conditions
Le Monde is reporting that AF447 was flown at the wrong speed through turbulence from the moment problems arose with its flight control systems and until it broke apart in flight, says Ben Sandilands.
AF447 speculation in tatters
There is growing confusion over what happened in what sequence to Air France flight AF447 early on 1 June over the mid Atlantic. It all seemed a lot simpler 24 hours ago, writes Ben Sandilands.
Bloggers try to make sense of AF447′s fate
While there’s still no clear idea of what happened to AF447, well-informed bloggers — like Crikey’s Plane Talking — are suggesting what might have gone wrong.
Did AF447 break apart mid-flight?
There is informed speculation amongst airline professionals that AF447 broke apart in flight at or near 35,000 feet and fell into the mid Atlantic in two main parts, reveals Ben Sandilands.
Qantas: Big Brother or nanny jet?
The Qantas “nanny jet” syndrome struck again as all references to the Air France disaster were censored from its Channel Nine news package.
Nine News censor plane disaster story to protect Qantas
Nine News didn’t mention the major story of the Air France disaster in their morning news bulletin because the programme is also shown on Qantas flights throughout that day, reports mUmBRELLA.
Wreckage sighted, but is it flight AF447?
In the second day of searching for the missing Air France jet, wreckage has been sighted, tabloid lies have been exposed, and terrorism has still not been ruled out.
Mystery and speculation surround Air France flight AF447
Only two things are certain about the loss of Air France flight AF447 last night. It suffered unprecedented massive electrical failures, and a catastrophic loss of control. Everything else is speculation.
