Victims of Air France Airbus Plane Crash Flight AF447 - 1

Horoscope Astrology of an Airplane Crash Victim

The French airplane crash , Air France Flight 447, in June 2009 counted a number of famous passengers, some of whose birth dates are publicly available on the Internet. One of these plane crash casualties was Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza born on 12 January 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was due to become the pretender to the former imperial crown of Brazil.

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Prince Pedro's birth chart contains an accumulation of astrological aspects which may have aroused the suspicion of an astrologer as to the risks he was taking while travelling. Each of these aspects taken individually would be innocent enough but all together they did portend the possibility that fate would hand a tragedy while on a trip. As a member of a royal family, there is no doubt that his life involved a more than your average number of travels. If he had benefitted from astrological counsel prior to boarding the flight, the planetary transits would have had any good astrologer say to avoid flying on this particular date when the jet crashed.

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Although it is difficult to forecast the exact date and time of any air plane crash, it is possible to find out risky days in an individual birth chart. No astrologer worthy of this name would have taken a flight on a day when transiting aspects were really bad on one's own chart.

The charts for this unfortunate event are below. Orbs are tight at 3°00' or much less, although some consideration has been given to the general atmosphere of the charts with wider orbs. Time of birth is unknown and the chart is set up for noon, as per custom. Considering this chart is about the heir to the throne of Brazil, one may surmise that a noon chart, placing the MC near the Sun could be appropriate for a general delineation of the houses.

Radical aspects which show the possibility of travel accidents

In the natal geocentric aspects, one finds an applying retrograde Mercury conjunct Pluto - literally travel to death or death in travel, Mercury being placed in the last critical degree of Capricorn.

The Sun conjunct Lilith show an introspective young man, who might some day have made inadequate choices (perhaps in the choice of flying dates) because of occasional overwhelming feelings of melancholy or depression. These aspects are exact during the day of birth.

A semi-square from Sun to Uranus may have given him already some taste of unpleasantness with respect to flying - delays, turbulent weather, flying during difficult times or, simply, distasteful fellow passengers. In the separating aspects, one finds Moon conjunct Ketu, the South Node, which is a sign of something unusual (and bad) to happen at some point in life.The Uranus Lilith semi-square only reinforces the impulsiveness of making decisions when emotionally unwell. Such a decision could have been to fly on such a day.

If one accepts that the noon chart may reveal significant house positions, then it immediately strikes the eye that Jupiter and Uranus - very widely conjunct - are posited in the VIIIth. Uranus rules aircraft and Jupiter rules big things/events. Jupiter rules the IXth of far-away travel, and is second ruler of the XIIth, hidden sorrows and suffering. Uranus rules the XIth, and is also a secondary master of the Xth (the destiny) after Saturn.

As for Pluto and Saturn, they are widely conjunct and occupy the VIIth. And the VIIth is not only one's spouse or known ennemy, it's also the house of those that give counsel to the native. Stretching this a little, one could see an older pilot in the VIIth. If one takes this view, Saturn which had been exalted in Libra, had barely arrived in Scorpio and became very debilitated, so any VIIth house person would have been of poor advice in the Prince's life - including if this person had been a pilot. With Mercury exactly square Pluto from the Xth, a number of times the native must have been given bad advice, particularly when it came to travel, communications, papers, administration. This aspect would have given him a capacity to think strategically, but not the ability to always act on his conclusions, especially since Mercury was retrograde.

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The conjunction of the Moon, IVth house ruler of the "end-of-the-matter", to the South Node happens across the IIIrd-IXth house axis. Neptune is posited in the IXth in Sagittarius, certainly not the best placement for travel, although it may show merciful unconsciousness of the crash happening. This young man was unlikely to ever benefit from long trips across the seas. Mars, ruler of the Ascendant, is on the cusp (Regiomontanus) of the Xth and XIth, showing dashing friends from work and possibly he was a man who liked to protect others around him. Mars is, however, in Aquarius, which although it gives lofty friendship ideas, is not its best placement. Mars is in the "aircraft" scene there, ruled by a debilitated Uranus in VIIIth and secondarily ruled by Saturn (by sign). In addition to which these two are in mutual reception - between malefics...

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On the declinations level, Moon is out-of-bounds and therefore liable to give sudden decisions or changes in opinions, emotions unruled also. Moon is parallel Neptune, and not far from a parallel to Uranus. Both these would have given him some intuition but, as above, not necessarily the ability to use it. Jupiter is widely parallel Uranus, "something big to do with planes". Mars is widely contraparallel to Chiron, giving enduring energy and charm, but also energetic action without due thought. Jupiter is contraparallel to both Mercury and Venus. This would one the one hand give him fortune and some amount of luck with financial matters and, generally, an easy character to get along despite his occasional bouts of sadness or internal worries. He liked travelling despite all the constraints he must have experienced in his trips. The kind Jupiter-Mercury-Venus aspects may also have given him peace in his last moments and he is unlikely to have suffered during the crash.

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Turning to the heliocentric chart, one sees some rather dark aspects: a yod between Saturn and Neptune with Chiron at the apex, with Jupiter in opposition to the latter. An almost exact Saturn conjunct Pluto; Earth is sesqui-square Uranus. Mercury is quincunx Uranus. In the parallels of latitude, the picture is worrisome: Mars is contraparallel Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Saturn is contraparallel both Venus and Chiron, which may explain why he did not marry despite the charm he exhibited and the financial means at his disposal.

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are parallel the Earth, indicating that he would make a mark on his world - or that something worldly would mark him. Which this plane accident did, considering how this crash event shocked even the most seasoned people, being talked about for months, and, to this day, being a complete mystery.

Transits on the day of AF447 plane crash

On that fated day, Prince Pedro was having a series of bad transits. On the early morning of the flight, transiting Mars in the very last critical degree of Aries was exact to the opposition of his Pluto. If only that, any astrologer should have told him to stay home. This might not have avoided an accident altogether, but might have mitigated it.

There was worse. This very transiting Mars, extremely strong in its Aries sign, but malefic on the last degree, was also squaring his natal retrograde Mercury in Capricorn. Both these aspects would have happened every 2 1/2 years, but considering the natal chart, he should have been counselled not to make any dangerous trip on such days.

Even worse, since the middle of May 2009, he was experiencing a trail of a treble transit to the conjunction of his radical Mars: the works of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron. Though Jupiter and Chiron are beneficial planets, they are debilitated in Aquarius and cannot bring any luck to the radical Mars which is particularly unsettled in its native environment. To top it all, Mars made an exact contraparallel to Saturn on the day he took the plane. Mars has decidedly not been an ally on Prince Pedro's chart as it was also receiving a parallel from Neptune and Jupiter, as well as a contraparellel from Mercury.

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Transiting Pluto was no better with parallels to Mercury and Venus - if he hadn't travelled that day, he might have harnessed the more pleasant sides of these two aspects, but it was not to be. Transiting Sun was contraparallel to his Neptune on the day after the jet crash. As for the North Node, it was transiting to the parallel to Mercury, Venus, Sun, Jupiter and Uranus - when ancient astrology talks about fate being connected to the Node, there's an example!

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Transiting Mercury in Taurus had just finished, that very day, its retrogradation, almost exactly conjunct his radical Chiron, so no help from this either. The sesquisquare from Saturn to Mercury was separating and had been an influence for the last 7-8 months, imparting some debility in judging situations clearly as well as inconvenience either for travel or for studies. Transiting Rahu, the North Node, was applying to the retrograde Mercury. Pluto was in the vicinity of the Moon-Ketu conjunction, but not yet exact.

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There were other disturbing aspects, but they were not exact and occured either in the past or in the future, only depicting some difficult years with respect to what he wanted to do as a career and for his studies. The transiting Moon had, earlier in the day, conjuncted Saturn. Never, ever, start something the day the Moon is in the same sign as Saturn! Thankfully, the Moon finally made a grand Earth trine with the Sun-Lilith conjunction and Chiron, becoming exact with Lilith at 02h21m and Chiron at 02h26m37s on 1 June 2009, a few minutes after the last message was received by Air France Technical Operations. This would certainly have contributed to a peaceful end and though it did not save his life, at least he did not suffer. And this is shown by the other various and kind aspects elsewhere in the charts.

The heliocentric chart of the plane crash together with Prince Pedro's chart do show some aspects of extreme significance, surrounded by generally difficult conditions and lack of luck illustrated with a Saturn almost exact sextile to the Earth. Any Saturn aspect could not have brought any good, even in a sextile configuration. Saturn was also applying to the opposition of radical Mars. Chiron and Neptune were applying to the square of radical Jupiter.

Transiting Venus is prominent with an opposition to Earth and a semi-square to Uranus on the day before and after the crash. Transiting Mercury had just joined transiting Pluto, and both were aspecting radical Mercury with a separating opposition. Finally, if one looks at the possible timing in the chart, one finds a very telling transiting Mercury semi-sextile Uranus becoming exact at 01h54m GMT on 1 June 2009, minutes before the crash. In and of themselves, the individual aspects are fairly innocuous, until you consider the sum total of the malefict planetary patterns.

The parallels of latitude show a desperate picture:
Applying:  Mars contraparallel Neptune, Mars contraparallel Jupiter, Jupiter contraparallel Jupiter, Jupiter contraparallel Neptune, Saturn parallel Saturn, Earth parallel Uranus
Separating, but not by far: Mars parallel Mars, Mercury contraparallel Mercury,  Uranus contraparallel Neptune, Neptune contraparallel Uranus and the Earth.

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After such an analysis, one can only become convinced that the amount of fate in a person's life is considerable, though perhaps not a 100%. To see fate at work, one might want to study Prince Pedro's father chart. Tragedy is patently obvious in his charts. The data is 24 June 1950 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, no birth time published

Please be respectful of these people when you analyse the charts, there has been enough suffering already. Thank you.

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References

Wikipedia - Prince Antônio of Orléans-Braganza
Wikipedia - Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza
Wikipedia - Air France Flight 447

Further reading on Air France Airbus Plane Crash Flight AF447 - my blog posts

Data on the Astrology of the Air France AF447 Plane Crash
Astrology Data and Charts of the Crashed Flight of Air France AF447
Astrology Data of the Maiden Flight and Construction Dates of the Crashed AF447 plane
Recap of All the Data Concerning the AF447 Air France Jet Crash

Further reading on Air France Airbus Plane Crash Flight AF447 - an interesting article

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Astrology Aspects - Air France AF447 Plane Crash - Flight Charts

Below are the astrology charts for the moments for which we have time and position, right up to the last message received. See also the other posts on my blog.

The plane departed from Rio-de-Janeiro (GIG), in Brazil. Coordinates for the airport are: 22°48'32"S 43°14'37"W. The time of leaving the gate was 19h03 local (22h03 GMT) on 31 May 2009 and the plane departed from that gate 3 minutes late.

The chart is impressive, with Uranus smack conjoined with the IC - the aspect is separating by 1 minute and 54 seconds. Of course, everyone will note Pluto in the XIIth conjunct the ASC. The triple conjunction of Jupiter-Neptune-Chiro in Aquarius is also almost exact to the quincunx of the MC. Though there are small good aspects, the malefic ones are really nasty, in particular the sesquiquadrate between Mars and Saturn which is applying and becoming exact during the flight. Another which I tend to beware is the Sun semisquare Venus. Because Venus is not far from the Sun, it cannot ever make major aspects with it and the only bad one that is cosmically possible is that semisquare. Every time I've found it, there was something nasty going on.

The heliocentric chart is not better. I've kept the houses in the helio chart in case it would show something interesting. We see Pluto and Mercury clustered at the ASC from the XIIth, and Mars out-of-sign-conjunct with Uranus from IVth and IIIrd to the IC. As for the trine between Venus and Saturn, it's a classical aspect of widowhood... The horrific Mars-Pluto square becomes exact during the flight.



The take-off was at 19h29 local (22h29). Well, it does not get any better save that the angles are a little further away from the nasties.





From the media, it is understood that the flight was uneventful in the first few hours. The last voice contact took place at 01h33 GMT on flight path UN873 INTOL at 01°21'42"S 32°49'56"W (decimal degrees: 1 21.7S 32 49.9W). At that time, there was no hint of possible problems with either the plane itself or the weather ahead.

The geocentric chart shows the critical and 29th degree of Aquarius rising. And so it places the triple conjuction of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron in the XIIth house. The Moon is starting a trine with Mercury, but unfortunately it becomes exact after the crash. Accurate within a minute is a semisextile of Pluto to the MC. The Sun is in the IVth, with no aspect. In the heliocentric chart, the square between Mars and Pluto has become exact a few moments before.





There is speculation that the plane made contact with Air France somehow at 02h00 GMT and mentioned severe turbulence at waypoint ORARO with this position: 02°14'48"N 30°55'24"W (decimal degrees 2 14.8N 30 55.4W). However I was unable to find any other official source than Air France. What I have seen on the Net looks reliable though. In that chart, ASC rises at 6°40 Pisces, and MC culminates at 10°23 Sagittarius. For the last contact with its "home base", one finds the Sun almost exactly conjunct the IC. The Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune lot are still in the XIIth. None of the aspects in the
previous charts have changed. The same is true of the heliocentric chart.





Between 02h10 and 02h14, a series of 24 automated messages were sent by the plane to the operating centers of Air France. Most of these messages are catastrophic in nature, but it is not yet known whether these messages were sent in sequence for events that happened, either during the time of the break-up of the plane (if it broke up) or after the plane had hit the ocean in one or several parts. If the plane did not deviate its horizontal course, the position at the time of the last automated message at 02h14 would have been extrapolated approximately as 3°34′40″N 30°22′28″W, but professionals who worked on the photos of the Brazilian map put this at 03°N, 30°21'W.

The geocentric chart, with all of the same aspects as during the flight, shows these striking features: for that position, the Sun is square the ASC, Saturn is square the MC, Mars is sesquisquare the MC. The Sun sqr ASC is exact at 02h13m29s, the Saturn sqr MC is exact at 02h18m01s, the Mars sesquisquare MC is exact at 02h18m14s. The helio chart is otherwise unremarkable.

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Astrology Aspects - Air France AF447 Plane Crash - Plane Charts

Below is a collection of astrological charts for the plane crash of Air France AF447, as well as some photographs.

The plane was an Airbus A330-200. Its registration was F-GZCP and serial number 660. It was made in France, in Toulouse-Blagnac, in 2005. Location is: 43°37'48"N 01°21'52"E . Its maiden flight was on 25 February 2005 (time unknown) with its registration but no livery. As for uncertain birth times, many astrologers choose to use midday, but it's really an old habit which was used for convenience at the time when astrologers had to do calculations by hand and used ephemerides for noon. Other astrologers locate the Ascendant at the same position as the Sun, which is probably more astro-logical. This is what I was going to do. Then, as I was going to post a photograph of the plane on its first flight, I noticed it had been taken at 15h38, just seconds after take-off, so I finally set the astrology chart for that moment. On the heliocentric chart, I have retained the house placements (Regiomontanus), in case these provide interesting information.

Note that on this day, Uranus was very exactly conjunct the Sun. If anything, that aspect was the worst possible to have for a maiden flight. I just wish engineers in the aerospace industry would take notice of such events, even if they don't believe in astrology, and try not to have a "baptism" chart, a maiden flight chart, on such awful days.





Copyright for this photograph, used with permission, is French Frogs Aviation Pictures.



On 4 April 2005 it was delivered in full livery to Air France.

It seems its first flight in the hands of Air France took place on 5 April 2005 at Toulouse-Blagnac, not at the Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport. Since writing the main article with all the astrological data of this doomed plane, I have obtained the time of the photograph of that flight for that date which was 16h00. I am no specialist, so I can't say whether it's landing or taking off. I think I'll use the 16h00 time until someone can point me towards a better time. The photograph clearly shows that this flight took place at Toulouse-Blagnac, not at the Paris airport as I had supposed. Please modify your data accordingly.

Copyright for this photograph, used with permission, is French Frogs Aviation Pictures.

Its first commercial flight was on 18 April 2005 (time and destination unknown). I hesitated to put the Ascendant in conjunction with the Sun, figuring that it would make its first commercial flight at 6.58 am in the morning. Also, I figured that as a commercial flight, its "career" was best illustrated by a MidHeaven conjunct the Sun. In the end, I decided that until I get more information, probably the MC conjunct the Sun would be better. I located it at Paris-Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. Location is: 49°00'35"N 02°32'52"E. I could not find a photograph for this particular flight.

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Astrology Aspects - Air France AF447 Plane Crash - Data

Below is astrological data concerning the crash of Air France AF447 plane which occurred on 1st June 2009 early morning in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The flight departed Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on 31 May 2009 and was expected to land in the late morning in Paris (France). It vanished, lost in tropical thunderstorms, having issued no Mayday, with 228 people on board. It took several days to find some parts of it. There has been much speculation regarding this fatal flight. Since there is very accurate data, it may be worth trying to do an astrological in-depth analysis of the events. See also other posts on the blog.

I have spent the majority of this week trying to collect the most up-to-date and reliable astrology data for astrologers who may want to study this catastrophic aircraft crash. I will update this list as and when I find more details. I herewith thank also all the Internet contributors on various fora for expressing their views and demonstrating their in-depth knowledge of aviation. Without them, this list would not have been possible. I'll try to make separate posts for photographs, charts and links with the thanks owed to authors of various articles and photographs in the next few days. Please feel free to make astrology comments or questions below, far down the post. I've done a lot of research work on this event and I may have on file details that may be of use to your astrological delineations but which I have omitted from this post. Bookmark this page and come back soon.

Please be respectful when using this data, do not use commercially and give prayers that the victims' souls rest in peace. Thank you.
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The aircraft

The plane was an Airbus A330-200. Its registration was F-GZCP and serial number 660. It was made in France, in Toulouse-Blagnac, in 2005. Location is: 43°37'48"N 01°21'52"E

• It's maiden flight was in Toulouse-Blagnac on 25 February 2005 (time unknown) with its registration but no livery.

• Since writing this post, I have noted that the Maiden Flight of F-GZCP was photographed at 15h38 (14h38 GMT). Please update your charts accordingly.

• On 4 April 2005 it was delivered in full livery to Air France (delete this, read below... in the Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport). Location is: 49°00'35"N 02°32'52"E
  
  
• It seems its first flight in the hands of Air France took place on 5 April 2005 (time unknown) (delete this, read below... at the Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport).

• Since writing this post, I have learnt that the time of the flight for that date was 16h00 and the photograph obtained - see next post with all charts - clearly shows that this flight took place at Toulouse-Blagnac, not at the Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport, as I had wrongly assumed. Please update your charts accordingly.

• Its first commercial flight was on 18 April 2005 (time and destination unknown).

There is, therefore, a question as of which date is to be taken for the birth chart of the plane. Considering its career was that of a commercial jet with passengers, I'd go for the 18 April 2005 date, though I would regard the previous dates as various "conception" dates which may be susceptible of shedding some light on its astrological future. Others may be of the opinion that it's maiden flight is the birth chart, even though it wasn't in the hands of Air France and did not carry Air France colors then. Later, upon getting more information and analysis of its history and accidents, including the last, we may be able to conclude better which chart to use.
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The flight

The plane departed from Rio-de-Janeiro (GIG), in Brazil. Coordinates for the airport are:
22°48'32"S 43°14'37"W. The time of leaving the gate was 19h03 local (22h03 GMT) on 31 May 2009 and the plane departed from that gate 3 minutes late. The take-off took place at 19h29 local (22h29).

From the media, it is understood that the flight was uneventful in the first few hours. The last voice contact took place at 01h33 GMT on flight path UN873 INTOL at 01°21'42"S 32°49'56"W (decimal degrees: 1 21.7S 32 49.9W).

At 0148 GMT, 15 minutes after crossing the INTOL waypoint, AF447 dropped off Brazilian radar screens to enter a no-radar-zone where it was to fly until its entry later on the way into Senegalese airspace.

There is speculation that the plane made contact with Air France somehow at 02h00 GMT and mentioned severe turbulence at waypoint ORARO with this position: 02°14'48"N 30°55'24"W (decimal degrees 2 14.8N 30 55.4W). However I was unable to find any other official source than Air France. What I have seen on the Net looks reliable though.

From this point AF447 was due to reach the Senegalese air space at waypoint TASIL at 4°00'18"N 29°59'24"W at 0220 GMT after going through this radar void in this region and huge thunderstorms. It never arrived.

Between 02h10 and 02h14, a series of 24 automated messages were sent by the plane to the operating centers of Air France. Most of these messages are catastrophic in nature, but it is not yet known whether these messages were sent in sequence for events that happened, either during the time of the break-up of the plane (if it broke up) or after the plane had hit the ocean in one or several parts. If the plane did not deviate its horizontal course, the position at the time of the last automated message at 02h14 would have been extrapolated approximately as 3°34′40″N 30°22′28″W, but professionals who worked on the photos of the Brazilian map put this at 03°N, 30°21'W. That is supposing that the airspeed remained the same. However those messages contain indications that the groundspeed was somehow not right, but it is not known if the equipment was so damaged that it would communicate wrong groundspeed, or if it was still functioning ok and transmitting accurate speed - if I have understood correctly. Some speculate that falling straight down from a height of 11km (35,000 feet) takes exactly 4 minutes.

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After many difficulties to locate the mystery plane, the Brazilian Air Force and Navy started to find bodies and pieces of the plane. Bearing in mind that such remains may have been floated away from the crash site by the ocean currents, the location where these were found is unlikely to be the exact place of the crash. The date the first body was recovered was 6 June 2009 and the time it was located was 11h14 GMT. It is said that the location was 3° 34.08'N, 30° 27.30'W which may be accurate to about 10 km. It was then brought aboard the frigate at 11h30 GMT. As of the time of writing, 9 June 2009, 28 bodies have been recovered, as well as pieces of the airplane, notably its fin which was found on 8 June 2009.

Air France has stated that it will issue a preliminary report by the end of the month of June.
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Details that may be pertinent to astrological analysis of the AF447 crash. Consider the following:

• The plane had had accidents in the past, and there has been speculation on whether this could be a factor in weakening some parts of the aircraft.
  
  
• There is dispute with professional pilots on some pieces of equipment which measures airspeed called "pitots" and which Air France is now urgently replacing, against Airbus advice, as pilots are now refusing to fly with the old version of this equipment, which had already caused some trouble.
  
  
• There are considerations of extraordinary weather circumstances, in particular a rise of hot air inside a cumulonimbus (a CB), which would cause the plane to get stuck in what is called "coffin corner". Hail, icing, rain, lightning, turbulence have been raised as main or co-factors.
  
  
• Weather radar malfunction in the radome has been mentioned. Equally the possibility that a small but extraordinary violent storm hid behind otherwise non-frightening images of a normal bad weather, beyond the technical possibility for the radar to show it in time which, purportedly, would explain why the pilots did not divert. It is to be remembered this was night-time, in the middle of clouds and weather disturbances, where pilots could not possibly navigate their plane on sight. The moon was third-quarter and its light would not have penetrated the extremely high and dense clouds.
  
  
• There were three pilots, with strong experience, unlikely to want to ride the dragon. Of the twelve crew members, eleven were French and one was Brazilian.
  
  
• Of the 216 passengers there were one baby, seven children, 82 women, and 126 men. The plane had a number of noteworthy travellers, including a royal prince, for whom one might want to obtain birth dates data to analyse. The passengers represented a wide cross-section of the population, with doctors, artists, humanitarians, anti-drugs and anti-arms volunteers, researchers, industry captains, a group of 10 employees rewarded by a trip to Brazil for their performance at work, newly weds, one lone child, and a majority of French, Brazilian and German people.
  
  
• There have been several reports of other pilots/planes sighting a white falling light of 6 seconds' duration in the night sky about the time it happened. None of these sightings can be confirmed, yet, as having been AF447.
  
  
• At the moment, it seems, on the Brazilian photographs, that not many pieces of the the plane have been found, and they do not look scattered in a wide area - but then this will be written in the future report. According to this, some speculate that the plane entered the ocean whole or at most in a few large pieces and did not disintegrate in millions pieces in the air.
  
  
• The black boxes will be incredibly difficult to find as the ocean is several miles deep around this area, with mountainous terrain.

• There was no electricity cut-off, otherwise the automated messages could not have been sent.
  
  
• There has been mention of terrorism in the early days, and although the French autorities claim their views are open to all possibilities, at the moment this seems unlikely. There was an empty bomb threat made against Air France, but on another flight route, several days previously. I have not been able to find out though if it was for the same plane or not.
  
  
• As for dangerous cargo, oxygen tanks or fuel tanks exploding, at the moment there does not seem to be clues in these directions.
  
  
• There are surely vested interests as well. It's pretty sure that the issue of liability and insurance will be raised. Who will foot the bill?
  
  
• Air France has lost money this year. It would be in its interest to show that there was no shoddy repair work on the plane, that manuals and instructions were strictly adhered to, and that it was either the pilots fault or faulty equipment from the manufacturer Airbus.
  
  
• Airbus needs to show the planes don't just break up for one or two little pieces of equipment, or worse, for some problem with structural faults between composite and metal parts of the airplane.
  
  
• Twelve other flights took place more or less simulataneously and on the same flight routes or very near. None of the other flights reported problems. None saw anything. Therefore what happened to AF447 must be delineated as unique compared to the other flights.
  
  
• The Brazilians have shown much dedication and professionalism in this very difficult job. They have also been fairly transparent and humane in their communications, despite one or two little errors, but who could blame them?
  
  
• The United States are bringing equipment to help trace the black boxes.
  
  
• The French are bringing a nuclear submarine and a specific recovery submarine to find the boxes. That's in addition to other vessels searching for pieces and remains. Their communication behavior has not been up to par with that of the Brazilians, understandably considering their liabilities.
  
  
• For those using altitude in their astrology charts, the plane was probably, according to its flight plan, on level 350, ie. 35,000 feet or 11 km.

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