Experts at work to shed light on what happened on board the Air France flight that took off last Sunday from New York’s JFK airport bound for Paris: On landing, the pilots had “serious technical problems.” problems lost control of the vehicle. with apparent panic on board and beyond.
According to the reconstructions, just before descending onto the runway, the Boeing 777300ER stopped responding to commands: the recording of the conversation between the pilots and the control tower, overheard by some radio amateurs, shows the tension of these difficult moments.
“The plane does not respond to commands says the captain stop, stop!” The alarm on board the plane then began to ring and panic broke out among the passengers.
The noise and excited voice alert the tower. “Air France 11?” they ask from the ground. “I’ll call you back,” says the pilot. Then again from the tower: “Air France will stop the approach immediately at 1,500 feet.” “Ok, we’ll stop at 1,500,” they answer from the cabin. But the alarm still sounds, and other acoustic warnings are added. “This is AF11, we’re going around, wait for 4,000 feet, we’ll call you back,” they say again from the plane.
“We were driving around because of flight control problems explains the pilot in a subsequent conversation with the ground crew . The plane did not respond, we are ready to continue the descent with radar displays. Give us time to manage the situation and then lead us by giving us a tailwind.
The Boeing therefore managed to land on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport on the second attempt.
“Air France confirms that the crew of flight AF011 on April 4, 2022 from New York JFK to ParisCDG interrupted the landing sequence and performed a goaround due to a technical problem during the approach,” an airline spokesman told the Daily Mail . “The crew checked the situation and the aircraft landed normally after a second approach.”
Now Air France has launched all internal investigations necessary to understand the nature of the technical problem. And according to a spokesman for the “Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de Aviation Civile” (Bea), the experts are already analyzing the data from the two black boxes on the plane.
(Uniononline / from left)
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