Le Monde Article
Un journal de Sao Paulo, le Jornal da Tarde, a eu connaissance de la chronologie et de la teneur de ces messages, selon lui grâce à une source proche de la compagnie française. Ces informations ont été publiées, mercredi 3 juin, par le très sérieux Estado de Sao Paulo (les deux quotidiens appartiennent au même groupe de presse).
Two respected Sao Paulo papers (owned by the same press group) the Jornal da Tarde and Estado de Sao Paulo published the messages June 3. Perhaps a Portuguese speaking member can check out those articles for more details.
AF Press Release:
The aircraft hit a zone of stormy weather with strong turbulence at 2am this morning (universal time), i.e. 4am in Paris. An automatic message was received from the aircraft at 2:14am (4 :14am in Paris) indicating a failure in the electric circuit a long way from the coast.
The language leads me to suspect that somebody in AF checked the satellite images and provided this information to the person(s) writing the
PR. Note that the next sentence goes on to discuss ACARS reports. Now all it would take for a rumoured report of pilot or ACARS reported turbulence to be produced from this
PR is a bit of journalistic legerdemain
