"Air France replaces speed monitors" by Associated Press | June 16, 2009
PARIS - Air France has finished replacing air-speed monitors on all its long-haul Airbus aircraft even though the cause of the Flight 447 disaster remains a mystery, a pilots' union official said yesterday. The search for the A330's black boxes was reinforced yesterday with a high-tech US Navy device that began listening for pings in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
With the flight recorders still missing, the probe into the disaster that killed 228 people so far has focused on the possibility that external speed monitors iced over and gave false readings to the plane's computers....
Translation: That is the AGREED UPON COVER STORY!
Erick Derivry, a spokesman for the SNPL pilots' union, though he stressed that there is no hard evidence that Pitot problems caused the accident.
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