Air France 447 Crash Update: Air France Bomb Threat Called In Days Before Crash!

There have not been many updates on the Air France flight 447 plane crash. But a rather interesting discovery is that there was a bomb threat called in just days earlier with Air France. Could Air France flight 447 have been bombed? Read more below.

An investigation into the cause of the crash of the Air France jet, Flight 447, was formally opened Wednesday, as both France and Brazil began mourning the 228 victims of the accident. There will be a memorial service for the victims held today in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Reports have been emerging about a bomb threat being called in just five days before Air France Flight 447  crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after leaving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A flight on Air France from Argentina to Paris was even delayed due to a bomb threat.

On May 27, Argentina’s Momento 24 reported that Air France had received a bomb threat over the phone. Police and firemen inspected the plane but did not locate a bomb on board.

“The routine procedure lasted approximately one hour and a half and, as sources [sic] of the airport reported all the passengers are ok and they were not evacuated,” it was reported.

At this point, sources seem to believe it was bad weather that caused the crash, and that it was not an act of terrorism. But the recent bomb threat does make you wonder.

The debris discovered in the Atlantic was definitely from Air France Flight 447.  Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim said there was “no doubt” that the debris discovered belonged to the Air France flight that vanished early Monday on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Officials of France’s Office of Accident Investigations and Analyses said discovering the reason for the crash would be very difficult.

“This aviation catastrophe is the worst this country has ever suffered,” BEA director Paul-Louis Arslanian told journalists in Paris. “We can not allow ourselves to speculate. We must verify everything.”

The Air France crash happened in the middle of the Atlantic, where the waters are very deep and the seafloor is very mountainous.

Arslanian was very clear about the first priority of the investigation. “We have to find the black boxes,” he said.

Each plane carries two black boxes, a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, and they are essential in helping investigators in the painstaking search for the cause of a plane crash.

“I don’t know what we will find. But we will immediately communicate everything we learn, as soon as it is clear to us,” Arslanian said.

Friends and families mourn for their loved ones that lost their lives in Flight 447. There were 72 French nationals, 60 Brazilians and 26 Germans among the plane’s 216 passengers and crew of 12.

With the debris found in the Atlantic being in small pieces, can they really rule out terrorism yet?  And with the new reports of a bomb threat called in days before… what do you guys think?

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Posted by: Monya

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