Actually Brazil and Russia are the most strict about these rules along with the USA (first position for them of course) so there's no way a terrorist attack would have not been discovered.

the 100ml rule hasn't been relaxed. the other week i had to bin an unopened bottle. 500ml. so it hasn't been relaxed!

Surely if the plane did have engine faliure it would have enough time to contact the proper authorities before it crashed, wheras if a bomb went off there would be no time as it would be unexpected ?

Exactly, they would have at leats had time to call a mayday or something.

IT WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK, I TELL YOU

So it was a bomb then? Why hasnt it been reported instead of just wild theories?

because they don;t even know where the plane is!

If it was anything other than a terror attack, they would have had enough time to send an sos to air controll in Rio or Paris.

Even thought it it could have been a transponder problem, they had other ways to communicate with Paris or Rio so something definitely happened. They had also enough time before it crashed.

Now, from some specialists, the lack of communication with the aircraft suggests it was something serious and catastrophic. It can be a terrorist attack or a collision with another plane, but in the last case, another plane would have disappeared.

They are also saying it couldnt have been a bird strike like the Hudson crash because, agian the plane was over 30,000ft and birds cant fly that high.

Sometimes there is No time
but to try to control a Plane going down to the water
save the plane - comes first.


I assume it may be under water.

IF it was a bomb (nothing to suggest it apart from speculation) - the governments would not be releasing details or theories yet. It'd require cross communication from the Brazilian and French authorities, and they wouldn't want to hinder any possible investigation.

if there was a decompression then the plane could have been ripped apart in seconds. so terror attack is not the only option!

It's kinda obvious it is by now...yet this is a serious problem because it will take more time to find it.

There is still some time, I've learnt that this year, you do have plenty of means of communications. This is strange to be honest, a plane can't just vanish in the air like that.

Breaking new from the French government: Just before the plane vanished from the radar, the plane entered in a depression phase. More information later in the afternoon.

So it was ripped apart then

This must be terrible for the families :sad:

A depression phase can mean a lot of things. You may get into a depression phase but nothing serious will happen but in this case, it did. Either it blew out, or it crashed or it was ripped apart.

"Plane sent message it had electrical short-circuit after strong turbulence"

Isnt this one of the first major accidents for Air France? The Air France/KLM group was celebrated as one of the safest airlines in the world due to stingent and intensive security checks?

Well thats why I was told their prices were high due to the general high scale operations of the company in all of its operations.

Now the French authorities just declared that it's most likely to be an accident than a terrorist attack due to some technical problems.

I feel sorry for the families.

Unfortunately no, French have been quite unlucky about this. 2 years ago in Venezuela and 9 years ago when the Concorde crashed near Paris. But this one is a major one because the circumstances are rather weird.

Its early morning in the USA, im just waiting for them to blow it out of complete proportion... lol

lol thats gonna be bloody huge over there but then again they may suprise us and completely ignore it

Who am I kidding? America LOVES plane crashes