That impact caused high deceleration and compression forces on the airliner, as shown by the deformations that were found in the recovered wreckage.There was a similar side-stick control issue in the "I didn't sleep enough last night. This confirmed the findings of the preliminary reports and provided additional details and recommendations to improve safety. The aircraft remained stalled during its entire 3-minute 30 second descent from 38,000 feet (12,000 m).Air France's A330s are equipped with a communications system, In addition to the routine position reports, F-GZCP's Centralized Maintenance System sent a series of messages via ACARS in the minutes immediately prior to its disappearance.Among the ACARS transmissions at 02:10 is one message that indicates a fault in the The remainder of the messages occurred from 02:11 UTC to 02:14 UTC, containing a fault message for an Weather conditions in the mid-Atlantic were normal for the time of year, and included a broad band of thunderstorms along the Commercial air transport crews routinely encounter this type of storm in this area.Flight 447 was due to pass from Brazilian airspace into After further attempts to contact Flight 447 were unsuccessful, an aerial search for the missing Airbus commenced from both sides of the Atlantic. Soulas said failure to search the area — where he said satellite images had detected traces of jet fuel on the ocean’s surface shortly after the crash — had potentially robbed the investigation of valuable information.“If they had searched this area and found the black boxes then, there would have been a much greater chance of recovering the data that is on them, rather than almost two years on,” he said.The hunt for Flight 447 was plagued by a number of official missteps and mistaken claims that the plane had been located. When he received no response, he asked the crew of another Air France flight (AF459) to try to contact AF447; this also met with no success. “We are now confronted with another trauma.”At a briefing Monday at the headquarters of France’s Bureau of Investigations and Analyses outside of Paris, officials said the remains of multiple victims were clearly visible from the high-resolution images, though it would likely be several weeks or months before a more precise count of corpses entombed within the plane, an Airbus A330-200, would be known.“Bodies were found,” Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a minister who oversees environmental and transport issues, told reporters. We are no longer accepting comments on this article.Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media GroupNot again! “They will be recovered and identified.”Investigators said that it could take three to four weeks before specially equipped recovery vessels could arrive on site to begin removing the debris, and the dead, from the site.All 228 passengers and crew members were killed when Flight 447 went down on June 1, 2009, in a heavy, high-altitude thunderstorm en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. In 2009, tests suggested that the new probe could improve its reliability, prompting Air France to accelerate the replacement program,In July 2009, Airbus issued new advice to A330 and A340 operators to exchange Thales pitot tubes for tubes from Goodrich.On 12 August 2009, Airbus issued three Mandatory Service Bulletins, requiring that all A330 and A340 aircraft be fitted with two Goodrich 0851HL pitot tubes and one Thales model C16195BA pitot (or, alternatively, three of the Goodrich pitot tubes); Thales model C16195AA pitot tubes were no longer to be used.On 20 December 2010, Airbus issued a warning to roughly 100 operators of A330, A340-200 and A340-300 aircraft regarding pitot tubes, advising pilots not to re-engage the autopilot following failure of the airspeed indicators.On 27 May 2011, the BEA released an update on its investigation describing the history of the flight as recorded by the flight data recorder. To comply with these procedures, Flight 447 was crewed by three pilots: a captain and two first officers.In accordance with common practice, captain Dubois had sent one of the co-pilots for the first rest period with the intention of taking the second break himself.At 02:10:05 UTC the autopilot disengaged, likely due to the blocked pitot tubes, and the aircraft transitioned from At 02:10:34 UTC, after displaying incorrectly for half a minute, the left-side instruments recorded a sharp rise in airspeed to 223 knots (413 km/h; 257 mph), as did the At 02:11:10 UTC, the aircraft had climbed to its maximum altitude of around 38,000 feet (12,000 m). Salvage: One of the flight recorders recovered from the Air France jet which crashed in the Atlantic in 2009The preserved bodies of dozens of victims of the worst crash in Air France’s history may have to remain more than two miles underwater permanently, judges have ruled. The bodies of 104 victims of an Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago will arrive in France on Thursday, starting what promises to be a long process of identification.