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Old 8th Jun 2009, 15:28
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Sources of purported pilot report of strong turbulence

From Le Figaro (04/06/09):

Refusant à ce stade d'interpréter la cascade de messages d'alerte Acars transmis par l'appareil peu avant le crash, M. Arslanian a simplement précisé mercredi que le pilote du vol AF 447 a évoqué «de fortes turbulences» lors de son ultime contact avec les contrôleurs du ciel brésiliens.
Refusing at this stage to interpret the stream of ACARS message alerts transmitted by the aircraft shortly before the crash, Mr. Arslanian (head of BEA) simply specified Wednesday that the pilot of flight AF 447 evoked “strong turbulence” at the time of his last contact with the Brazilian ATC.
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