Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged.
Debris from Air France flight AF 447 has been recovered from the Atlantic
French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 31 May.
Flight AF447 crashed in the mid-Atlantic en route to Paris during a violent storm.
While it is certain that there were computer malfunctions, terrorism has not been ruled out.
Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French equivalent of MI6, were dispatched to Brazil.
It was there that they established that two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic.
A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L'Express that the link was "highly significant".
Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.
There is a possibility the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence", the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously".
France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan.
Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne suicide attacks similar to the ones on the United States on September 11 2001.
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Let's see now,
Bomb threat - check
Violence inspiring dhimmified euronation - check
228 dead - check
Destroyed aircraft - check
Pedophile worshiping death pundits - check
Not as easy as you thought, is it?
Did either of the pilots happen to suffer from an eating disorder? I hear those can make you crazy...
There are reports of more bodies being recovered.
It will be interesting to see if there is any record of the seat locations of these two suspect passengers for that flight. Then compare recovered structure debris with seat locations. If either of these suspects was involved, there is reason to doubt that either of their bodies (or the bodies/seats/fusilage near them) will be recovered.
Recall also another Pilot saw 'white light' where Air France flight lost
"Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds," the captain wrote in the report, Llodra said.
That captain didn't confuse 'lightening' with the flash of light.
The only thing we are missing is a terrorist group claiming credit.
Also, one news report I read said that the wreckage was spread over several miles, and was mostly in three distinct areas, which would be consistent with the original theory that the plane broke apart in a storm.
However, my question on the storm theory has always been, why is it that the storm, if it existed, was not found via normal tracking, and why was the info not forwarded to the pilots?
Pilots are always changing course, ascending and descending to avoid storms.
Pastorius,
You wrote,
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The only thing we are missing is a terrorist group claiming credit.
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That is kind of odd. You'd think they'd take credit, since one of their goals is to sow terror, and make us do what they want through fear. What good does it do them, if everyone thinks this is just some freak accident?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090611/ts_nm/us_france_plane
Air France chief questions sensor role in crash
By Tim Hepher Tim Hepher 2 hrs 39 mins ago
PARIS (Reuters) – Air France is not yet convinced that faulty speed sensors were to blame for the loss of one of its planes over the Atlantic, but it is replacing old sensors as a precaution, the airline's chief executive said on Thursday.
Pierre-Henri Gourgeon told reporters that Air France was in a state of shock over the worst disaster in its 75 year history and expected more information about what happened within a week.
An Air France Airbus 330 crashed into the sea on June 1 enroute from Brazil to Paris, killing all 228 aboard.
Air accident investigators have said the Airbus registered inconsistent speed readings just before contact was lost, raising speculation that the pilots might inadvertently have flown at the wrong speed and precipitated the disaster.
Air France subsequently reported that it had noticed temporary loss of air speed data on previous Airbus flights due to ice collecting in the sensors, known as pitot tubes, and said it was speeding up a pre-planned replacement program.
"As circumstances would have it, the first replacements arrived practically on the eve of the accident, on the Friday," Gourgeon told a news briefing, adding, "I am not convinced that speed sensors were the cause of crash."
The French air accident agency has said it is too early to pinpoint any possible cause for the crash, saying there were only two certainties -- that the plane had hit stormy weather before the crash and that the speed readings were incoherent.
Airbus denied a French newspaper report that it was considering grounding its fleet of A330 and A340 planes in the wake of the disaster, saying they were safe to fly.
AIRBUS REASSURANCES
Gourgeon said the planemaker had reassured clients that all three types of speed sensors available for its jets were safe, including the one used on the downed A330.
Industry sources said the planemaker had also ruled out for the time being that there was an electrical power failure or loss of cockpit instrument display on the Air France jet.
Air France said at the weekend it had noticed the icing problems on the speed sensors in May 2008, although Gourgeon said these "incidents" had not been deemed catastrophic.
The airline said tests had later convinced it that probes developed for another model would be more efficient and that it had decided to go ahead and start fitting them from April 27 without waiting for further testing proposed by Airbus.
The speed sensors on the Air France A330 were supplied by France's Thales, which has produced two versions of the pitot tube for the Airbus aircraft. A third model made by U.S. firm Goodrich have not been called into question.
The crashed plane had an earlier Thales model, which is being replaced by a more recent probe.
Brazilian and French search teams have recovered 41 bodies and debris from the Atlantic some 1,000 km (620 miles) from Brazil's northern coast. A nuclear-powered French submarine is leading the search for the plane's sunken flight recorders.
Gourgeon said more information about the crash would be available once autopsies had revealed the exact cause of death and after experts had scrutinized the debris.
"I think we will have a little bit more information in a week," he said.
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