Iran has put the blame on the United States for its poor aviation safety record due to the sanctions placed by the United States.
This story hits home. Another Filipino died in an airplane crash. When Air France 447 crashed on June 1, 2009, a Filipino seaman, Arden Jugueta, was one of the passengers who perished during that crash. Yesterday, the Saudi Arabian Embassy confirmed that one of the flight attendants working the Yeman Airline that crashed was a Filipina. Camille Lou Castillo Libron, 26, single. Read more.....
It is a sad reality. Some airplane crashes were due to mechanical problems, some were due to terrorist acts, and some were due to human (pilot) error. Some are attributed to bad weather.
In these pages, we will be bringing you up-to-date and historical airplane crashes here in the United States and around the world. Our researchers will be building these pages as stories happen, and as soon as their research skills can take after browsing through aviation and history books, online, and from the bound pages of the library books.
Brazil Ended Search for More Bodies from Air France Flight 447 Crash.
Air France Getting Close to Answers/50th Body has been found /400 Total Pieces of Wreckage Read more...
Pattern of dead bodies from Air France 447 crash suggests it split up in mid-air Read more...
A total of 24 bodies and part of the tail was found today at the AF Flt 447 crash site. (From Montreal Gazette 6/8/09).
In addition to the two bodies recovered yesterday, Brazil recovered 23 more bodies, for a total of five (5). No other information on the sex of the last three.
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List of Passengers Air France Flight 447
-Luiz Roberto Anastacio, 50; Brazilian; president for South America, Michelin
-Mateus Antunes, Brazilian
-Octavio Antunes, Brazilian
-Patricia Antunes, Brazilian
-Stephane Artiguenave, 35; French; salesman at electrical distributor CGED
-Sandrine Artiguenave, 34; French
-Silvio Barbato, Brazilian, former conductor for the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater Orchestra
-Valnizia Betzler, Brazilian
-Pierre-Cedric Bonin, 32; French; co-pilot of AF447
-Pedro Luis de Orleans e Braganca, 26; Brazilian; descendent of Brazil's last emperor
-Isabelle Bonin, 36; French; wife of AF447 co-pilot Pierre-Cedric Bonin
-Aisling Butler, 26; Irish, of Roscrea, Ireland; doctor
-Vanderleia Carraro, Brazilian
-Julia Chaves de Mirandas Chmi, Brazilian
-Leticia Chem, Brazilian
-Roberto Chem, Brazilian
-Vera Chem, Brazilian
-Chen Chiping, 53, Chinese; wife of Liaoning province's vice mayor, vice manager of a trade company under Benxi Iron & Steel
-Chen Qingwei, 35, Chinese; resident of central Chinese city of Wuhan, had applied to become Brazilian investment immigrant
-Brad Clemes, 49; Canadian from Guelph, Ontario; Coca-Cola executive
-Arthur Coakley, 61; British; structural engineer for PDMS
-Bianca Cotta, Brazilian
-Ana Luis Curty, Brazilian
-Leonardo Dardengo, Brazilian
-Juliana de Aquina, Brazilian
-Jose Roberto Gomes da Silva, Brazilian
-Carlos Eduardo de Mello, Brazilian
-Jane Deasy, 27; Irish; doctor
-Marc Dubois, 58; French; flight captain of AF447
-Simone Elias, Brazilian
-Marcia Mosconde Faria, Brazilian
-Sonia Ferreira, Brazilian
-Adriana Henriques, Brazilian
-Walter Carrilho Junior, Brazilian
-Izabela Kestler, Brazilian
-Jozsef Gallasz, 44; Hungarian; partner of Hungarian victim Rita Szarvas.
-Gao Jiachun, 27, Chinese; an employee with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in south China city of Shenzhen
-Gao Xing, 39, Chinese; manager of trade company under Benxi Iron & Steel
-Antonio Gueiros; Brazilian; information systems director, Michelin
-Michael Harris, 60; American, from Lafayette, Louisiana; geologist
-Anne Harris; American, from Lafayette, Louisiana, physical therapist
-Erich Heine, 41; South African-born; member of executive board of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
-Claus-Peter Hellhammer, 28; employee of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG based in Germany
-Veronica Ivanovitch, 57; Swiss-Brazilian; the wife of telecoms millionaire Hans Ivanovitch
-Moritz Kock, 54; German, from Potsdam; architect
-Giovanni Battista Lenzi, Trentino area, Italy
-Leonardo Pereira Leite, Brazilian
-Li Mingwen, 44, Chinese; deputy general manager of Benxi Iron & Steel based in China's northeastern Liaoning Province
-Jean Claude Lozouet, Brazilian
-Zoran Markovic, 45; Croatian, from Kostelji, Croatia; sailor
-Jose Gregorio Marques, Brazilian
-Maria Teresa Marques, Brazilian
-Nelson Marinho, Brazilian
-Carlos Mateus, Brazilian
-Gustavo Mattos, Brazilian
-Marco Antonio Camargos Mendonca, 44, Brazilian, worked for Vale SA mining company
-Luis Claudio Monlevad, Brazilian
-Tadeu Moraes, Brazilian
-Eduardo Moreno, Brazilian
-Marcelo Oliveira, Brazilian
-Christine Pieraerts; French; engineer at Michelin
-David Robert, 37; French; co-pilot of AF447
-Bruno Pelajo, Brazilian
-Marcela Pellizzon, Brazilian
-Ferdinand Porcard, Brazilian
-Sonia Maria Cordeiro Porcaro, Brazilian
-Deise Possamai, Brazilian
-Luciana Seba, Brazilian
-Shen Zuobing, about 40, Chinese; former material section chief, Benxi Iron & Steel
-Ana Carolina Silva, Brazilian
-Angela Cristina de Oliveira Silva, Brazilian
-Joao Marques Silva, Brazilian
-Jose Souza, Brazilian
-Adriana Sluijs, Brazilian
-Sun Lianyou, 49, Chinese; director of smelting plant, Benxi Iron & Steel
-Rita Szarvas; Hungarian; therapist at a Budapest center for children with motor disabilities. Her 7-year-old son was also aboard, but his name was not released.
-Maria Vale, Brazilian
-Francisco Vale, Brazilian
-Paulo Vale, Brazilian
-Eithne Walls, 29; Irish; doctor
-Solu Wellington Vieira de Sa, Brazilian
-Xiao Xiang, 35, Chinese; associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing
-Rino Zandonai; Trentino area, Italy.
-Christiane Zeuthen; Danish
-Zhang Qingbo, 54,
For some passengers who missed the AF Flight 447, because of traffic or problem with their reservations, it was a sad relief, knowing that they missed death but 228 people did not. They are -
Andrej Aplinc - Slovenia sailor, father of 2. His cab driver was in a hurry to watch a soccer match so he got to the airport early to catch Flt 447. However, he found that there was not enough legroom on that flight for his bum knee and there were seats on the earlier AF flight. He took that flight and his life was spared.
Gustavo Ciriaco, Brazilian, dances, choreographer, was late to take AF 4pm flight and the airline agents could not find his seat and the gate was about to close. He pleaded to be on the flight and the airline discovered the seating error and they allowed him to take the 4pm flight. Otherwise, he said, he would have been on the AF447 flight.
Amina Benouargha-Jaffiol, lives in France, tried to get on the flight Sunday night by asking her diplomat friend to convince the airline. The airline did not relent, and so her's and her husband's (Claude) lives were spared.
The above stories or missing a doomed flight for one reason or another, should be considered in a positive light and not be considered traumatic. The above "survisors" were sadly humbled when they compare their fate to the fate of the passengers of Air France 447 that they missed.
Air France Flight 447 disappeared from the radar and never heard from starting June 1, 2009 when an automatic message was sent to the Air France operations center. There were 228 people on board from different nationalities. Air France Flight 447 left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was heading to Paris when, after four (4) hours of flight, it was never heard from at all. On June 2, 2009, debris were found near the area where the aircraft was supposed to be at - near Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. Officials confirmed that the airplane seat, a fuel slick, and pieces of white debris scattered over miles of Atlantic Ocean were from Air France 447 that disappeared a day earlier.
Search effort is expected to be challenging, according to the officials, due to the nature of the ocean terrain.
The flight was believed to be have met a severe turbulence and possibly loss of cabin pressure, based on automatic signal emitted from the aircraft before it disappeared from radar.
The cause of the crash will be unknown until the black boxes are recovered - which could take days - or weeks.
The airplane was flying at 500 miles per hour, and the storm was coming at them for 100 miles per hour. Meteorologist speculate that started the process which ended up in tragedy.
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