Air France Received Bomb Threat Days Before Crash

IT MUST BE TERRORISM!!1!11!

BUST OUT THE WATERBOARDS WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO!

I smell bovine dookie!

I won't even attempt a call on this. Maybe terrorism; maybe not. Observations, I can make.

This aircraft wasn't old. Air France maintains their aircraft. Malfunction; enough to down the craft, is unlikely. Futher, with the standard redundant systems all international carriers have, it's hard to imagine weather conditions being responsible. But more than one automatic malfunction report was received. Signals were received within 180 seconds of each other. This is fast. Lost cabin pressure, which means the seal was breached, and electrical malfunction - which could be anything to this reader with no experience. Maybe unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility. Shit happens.

At the same time the lead pilot was experienced. There's an emergency radio channel (our military calls it Guard) that's restricted to just that. If it was a malfunction and the craft was going down the pilot would be screaming. Brazil was listening. nothing. Assuming the radios were working.

Where does this leave us? Nowhere. Ocean floor terrain doesn't help. Storms in the area don't help. Ocean currents can be back-tracked, if they're known. But even if the crash area is narrowed down to a few square miles location of the main wreckage depends on the black boxes and their signal. Hard in mountains. Maybe too hard.

Searches are conducted by finding the suspect area and then running over it like cutting a lawn, dragging the microphones. Back and forth. How big an area? How many vessels involved equipted to do the search? 1 square mile is one thing. 100 square miles is another. Given what we know so far, identifying an area 10 miles on a side would be some exceptional work.

That a big chunk of the plane itself was found can mean a lot, or nothing. If the plane hit the surface at speed it breaks up. An explosive can also blow a chunk off. If they retrieve that piece it will shed some light - or at least reduce possibilites. If the pilot had control it could be in one piece - mainly. Remember our hero that ditched? Or it could be scattered all to hell & gone.

My condolenses to the family members that lost loved ones. I hope we get lucky.

My condolences to the Families involved. I hope we can find out more information concerning that phone call. That's not conspiracy theory, that's called Murder investigation. Maybe by some fluke, a clue will be discovered as to why this aircraft went down. Because of the report of this threat that was called in, they have to take this very serious as an act of possible terror. Nothing wrong with that. We owe that much to the victims and the families.

Could not get the link to load. Anyone know if the flight recorders have been recovered? should not really speculate until then .

I wondered if there was anyone important on the plane. I mean everyones life is important but I wonder if there was someone special on the plane.

Dick Cheney wasn't hunting anywhere near there, was he? just joking!
Aren't those French so cloaked about everything? Why didn't they admit this when the plane disappeared? Who made the threats? Were the threats verified?
Now they are saying the debris is not from flight 447! What? Another plane crash?
Wonder what all this is about????
Maybe drugs?
Money?