Revision of some theories and facts
I have kept quiet for so long, because I do not have the knowledge that some of you guys have. But after having read some posts, I thought I may be allowed to ask one or two questions. I have kept up to date with all posts in this and the previous threads, but I thought that maybe it would be a good idea just to refresh the minds of some of us of what we know and deduce so far. Obviously we all want to know what happened between 01.35.43 and 02.14 on June 1 2009.
1.Can someone tell me why AF447 did not give estimates at Tasil? These were experienced flight crew, the captain and FO having 16/39 rotations respectively on the S.America routes.
2.Is it the norm to give Tasil when ACC-AO asked for it, or was ACC-AO premature? Do we know who was communicating with ATC?
3.According to AF flight plan, AF447 should have been at SALPO M082F370/ORARO M082F370. But ACC-AO told them to maintain F350. I wonder why and whether that had any significance to what followed. 4.Were they on flight path at ORARO as it looks like they were beginning to go west and were already behind schedule as they had not reached ORARO at 0200, so maybe they were no longer M0.82?
5. I am sure I read somewhere that AF447 tried to contact DAKAR without success, but the BEA report states that there was no radio contact made between AF447 and DAKAR. Automated?
I am one of those who believe that AF447 did not travel very far after LKP, as the last ACARS was received at 02.14.26. That is only about 4 minutes after LKP, and it was already on its way down. My ten cents worth of guessing is that those poor folks met their demise NE of LKP.
Pollution spot, just some passing ship dumping. No one will own up to doing that.
Hopefully we will find the truth in 3/4 months.
Pete