Is it legal to make fake photos about the Air France Flight 447 accident?

UPDATE:
On 20 June, 2010, Air France announced that each victim's family would be paid roughly €17,500 in initial compensation. Wrongful death lawsuits maintaining that design and manufacturing defects stranded pilots with incorrect information, rendering them incapable of maintaining altitude and air speed, have been filed in U.S. Court.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/...62S3YD20100329



Photos from Air France Flight 447, or possible fakes

Someone sent me email containing images that they allege were taken on the doomed Air France flight 447. Are they real or fake? :::::::: It seems likely that they're fakes, but a flight attendant friend sent me email with the two photos below. They were allegedly taken by one of the passengers in the doomed Air France flight 447t, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole. Even if they're fake, they're pretty impressive! Maybe someone will recognize them from a movie, or someone will detect telltale signs of photoshopping.

Photo #1



Photo #2




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OpEdNews » Photos from Air France Flight 447, or possible fakes

the flight crashed at night for starters...so these pictures are fake!

International TV/radio stations apparently were victims of a hoax concerning supposed video footage of the crash, which instead came from the television show "Lost." Among the hoodwinked were Bolivian station PAT, Poland's TVN24 and BNR of Netherlands. (Gawker, Canada's CBC)

Here's one video. It's embarrassing, particularly because the footage shows a plane having trouble during the day; the Air France crash happened in the middle of the night.

TV de Bolivia confundió Lost con el accidente de Air France

story is so sad....



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Tuesday June 23, 2009

Signals have been picked up from the black boxes of the Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic, according to reports.

French naval vessels detected a weak signal from the flight data recorders, Le Monde newspaper said.

A mini-submarine, the Nautile, has been sent to try to find the boxes on the bottom of the ocean floor.

Air France Crash: Signals From Plane's Black Boxes Detected, French Mini Submarine Sent To Find Them | World News | Sky News

Manufacturer optimistic of finding AF447 flight data recorder

Thursday June 18, 2009

(CNN) -- A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447 says he hopes his firm's 100 percent recovery record from air accidents will be maintained despite concerns the device may be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Although some debris has been retrieved, air crash investigators remain in the dark about what caused the airliner to plunge into the sea off the coast of Brazil with 228 people onboard earlier this month. The wreckage is believed to be about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) deep, amid underwater mountains and mixed in with tons of sea trash.

Manufacturer optimistic of finding AF447 flight data recorder - CNN.com

the first pictures shows the tail falling off and it's not one from air france

first of all i feel sorry for the victims. the images above are from the tv show lost.

here is the link...

TV station airs Lost as Air France crash footage | World News | News.com.au

quote guardian.co.uk:

>>> A French official today ruled out the missing black boxes of the crashed Air France plane as the source of sounds search teams have detected in the Atlantic ocean. An aide to, Jean-Louis Borloo, France's top transport official, told the Associated Press: "The black boxes have not been detected." <<<


maybe they found the boxes but won't tell us until later... maybe...

JUST FYI - Interior cut-away of a black box design




Recorder locations




Example of a Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...e-recorder.jpg


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Three weeks on from the crash of Air France flight 447, it is clear that the airline and the Airbus company are going to face some hard questions over the worst air disaster since 2001.

The boss of Air France said last Friday that the airline had experienced a series of faulty speed incidents on its long-range Airbuses beginning last August. But last night, company documents reached the internet showing that the problem was known before that. Eurocockpit, a site run by professional pilots, including some from Air France, published an Air France maintenance notice, NT-34-029, dated last August 20. This said that at that time there had already been six cases of malfunctioning pitot probes on the company's A340 aircraft, the bigger brother of the A330 [see extract below]. These were said to be due to water and ice. Eurocockpit, which has been the source of the main leaks from the airline since the crash, said work on the technical notice had started in June last year (see full documents here). Air France 447 was the 36th known occurrence of faulty speed readings on the A330 and A340 series, said the Eurocockpit association. The 35 previous incidents followed the same sequence as those reported by AF447, except that the pilots were able to recover control and return to normal flight. The Eurocockpit pilots voiced amazement that the August 2008 technical note says that the faulty pitot tubes would have "nil operational impact". They called this outrageous. "How can it be imagined that there would be no operational consequence from the loss of so much information and vital systems?" it asked. "We have consulted the pilots who had these pitot problems. All told us that it took a big dose of immediate lucidity to avoid distraction by the stall warnings which came with the incident and face up to the deluge of alarms...." Maintaining control of AF447, at night in a tropical storm with faulty information, would have been a monumental task, the pilots said. The pilots are obviously keen that the crew of AF447 should not be blamed for the crash. The flight recorders still lie on the floor of the Atlantic with only days left before their locator batteries run out. It is early to pronounce on the cause of this rare disaster, but the evidence is building up and it does not look good for Air France and Airbus. The accident investigation bureau, the BEA, is to produce a preliminary report by June 30.

Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG: Suspicions deepen over Air France Flight 447