Being curious about the source of the two pages of ACARS messages, which are labelled 28/256 and 29/256, I looked around to see where they originated. Amazingly, this seems to be it:
AF447 accident - icing, pitot tubes and radar in the frame - Unusual Attitude So the crucial text on which everyone is basing analysis, was hand copied from a screen visible during a TV interview! Furthermore I gather from other comments here, that this is just one ACARS stream (maintenance messages?) of several. Also that it isn't publicly known for certain that these two pages are even all the relevent messages from that stream.
I'm new to this forum, and have no aviation-related expertise whatsoever. (I'm an electronics and computer engineer.) I greatly respect the professional experience present on this forum and others. But... I'm astonished that there doesn't seem to be any indignation that Air France and the French aviation authorities have not seen fit to release *all* the ACARS messages from AF447. Are there legal reasons why they wouldn't? Liability? Insurance? Given that what appear to be at least a large proportion of the critical ACARS messages are now public, why not either officially release them all, or at least make some effective demonstration that there were no more?
If this topic has already been dealt with, my apology. 87 pages...
For reference, here are some other links to the ACARS messages and commentary:
http://www.pprune.org/4975386-post45.html single post - ACARS msgs
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3410/acarsaf447e.png ACARS msgs
Engineer decodes Air France Flight 447 emergency messages 20090608 Engineer decodes Air France Flight 447 emergency messages
http://www.iag-inc.com/premium/acars2.pdf Line by line commenting on the ACARS msgs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/wo...lane.html?_r=1 Error Messages From Air France Jet Offer Details but Little Insight
The New York Times > World > Image > The Last Minutes of Flight 447
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...ane-graf01.jpg
http://www.eurocockpit.com/images/acars447.png