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(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 09, 2009 ) State College, Pa. - AccuWeather.com reports searchers recovered debris from Flight 447 Monday, including the aircraft's vertical stabilizer. This recovery may help investigators to pinpoint what happened to the Airbus 330.
The stabilizer was found floating on the ocean surface, which brings up new questions as to whether the turbulence and updrafts produced by the severe storms started a sequence of events that lead to a similar situation that happened to another Airbus in 2001.
In that incident, an Airbus taking off from JFK airport encountered wake turbulence from a 747 ahead of it. The result was a series of events that lead to the crash of Flight 587 in a Queens, NY neighborhood. While it is still too early to speculate on the cause of the crash, that fact that Flight 447 flew into severe turbulence and that its vertical stabilizer did not sink is significant.
Several pieces of luggage in addition to parts of the plane's wing section and a couple of seats were also found this weekend over 400 miles north of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands. Search efforts for more of the plane's wreckage will continue the next few days.
In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009. A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil on Monday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force)
The area of the Atlantic where the debris were found can range in depth from 2,700 meters to 6,000 meters (about 9,000 feet to about 20,000 feet), according to Michael Arthur, a professor in the department of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.
The reason for this range is due to ridges and mountains near the mid-Atlantic ridge, an underwater mountain range near where the debris is suspected to be if it sank. This depth would make any recovery efforts of sunken debris very difficult, Arthur speculates.
The underwater ridges may also interfere with sound fields for any vessel using sound-based radar devices to locate debris.
If any parts of the aircraft sank to the bottom, these pieces would be under extreme amounts of pressure. For example, assuming none of these pieces contain any air pockets, an object in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water would undergo pressure of 7,348 pounds per square inch.
Searchers will have at least another day of relatively clear weather before the winds pick up and unsettled weather moves in to the area starting Thursday.
Fifteen more bodies from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last week, bringing the total count to 17.
Story by AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity and AccuWeather.com News Correspondent Gina Cherundolo
If you have questions or want to speak to a meteorologist, contact:
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
Or call our 24-hour press hotline:
814-235-8710
AccuWeather.com
Justin Roberti
814-235-8710
Roberti@AccuWeather.com 
(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 09, 2009 ) State College, Pa. - AccuWeather.com reports searchers recovered debris from Flight 447 Monday, including the aircraft's vertical stabilizer. This recovery may help investigators to pinpoint what happened to the Airbus 330.
The stabilizer was found floating on the ocean surface, which brings up new questions as to whether the turbulence and updrafts produced by the severe storms started a sequence of events that lead to a similar situation that happened to another Airbus in 2001.
In that incident, an Airbus taking off from JFK airport encountered wake turbulence from a 747 ahead of it. The result was a series of events that lead to the crash of Flight 587 in a Queens, NY neighborhood. While it is still too early to speculate on the cause of the crash, that fact that Flight 447 flew into severe turbulence and that its vertical stabilizer did not sink is significant.
Several pieces of luggage in addition to parts of the plane's wing section and a couple of seats were also found this weekend over 400 miles north of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands. Search efforts for more of the plane's wreckage will continue the next few days.
In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009. A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil on Monday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force)
The area of the Atlantic where the debris were found can range in depth from 2,700 meters to 6,000 meters (about 9,000 feet to about 20,000 feet), according to Michael Arthur, a professor in the department of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.
The reason for this range is due to ridges and mountains near the mid-Atlantic ridge, an underwater mountain range near where the debris is suspected to be if it sank. This depth would make any recovery efforts of sunken debris very difficult, Arthur speculates.
The underwater ridges may also interfere with sound fields for any vessel using sound-based radar devices to locate debris.
If any parts of the aircraft sank to the bottom, these pieces would be under extreme amounts of pressure. For example, assuming none of these pieces contain any air pockets, an object in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water would undergo pressure of 7,348 pounds per square inch.
Searchers will have at least another day of relatively clear weather before the winds pick up and unsettled weather moves in to the area starting Thursday.
Fifteen more bodies from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last week, bringing the total count to 17.
Story by AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity and AccuWeather.com News Correspondent Gina Cherundolo
If you have questions or want to speak to a meteorologist, contact:
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
Or call our 24-hour press hotline:
814-235-8710
AccuWeather.com
Justin Roberti
814-235-8710
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 09, 2009 ) State College, Pa. - AccuWeather.com reports searchers recovered debris from Flight 447 Monday, including the aircraft's vertical stabilizer. This recovery may help investigators to pinpoint what happened to the Airbus 330.
The stabilizer was found floating on the ocean surface, which brings up new questions as to whether the turbulence and updrafts produced by the severe storms started a sequence of events that lead to a similar situation that happened to another Airbus in 2001.
In that incident, an Airbus taking off from JFK airport encountered wake turbulence from a 747 ahead of it. The result was a series of events that lead to the crash of Flight 587 in a Queens, NY neighborhood. While it is still too early to speculate on the cause of the crash, that fact that Flight 447 flew into severe turbulence and that its vertical stabilizer did not sink is significant.
Several pieces of luggage in addition to parts of the plane's wing section and a couple of seats were also found this weekend over 400 miles north of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands. Search efforts for more of the plane's wreckage will continue the next few days.
In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009. A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil on Monday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force)
The area of the Atlantic where the debris were found can range in depth from 2,700 meters to 6,000 meters (about 9,000 feet to about 20,000 feet), according to Michael Arthur, a professor in the department of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.
The reason for this range is due to ridges and mountains near the mid-Atlantic ridge, an underwater mountain range near where the debris is suspected to be if it sank. This depth would make any recovery efforts of sunken debris very difficult, Arthur speculates.
The underwater ridges may also interfere with sound fields for any vessel using sound-based radar devices to locate debris.
If any parts of the aircraft sank to the bottom, these pieces would be under extreme amounts of pressure. For example, assuming none of these pieces contain any air pockets, an object in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water would undergo pressure of 7,348 pounds per square inch.
Searchers will have at least another day of relatively clear weather before the winds pick up and unsettled weather moves in to the area starting Thursday.
Fifteen more bodies from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last week, bringing the total count to 17.
Story by AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity and AccuWeather.com News Correspondent Gina Cherundolo
If you have questions or want to speak to a meteorologist, contact:
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
Or call our 24-hour press hotline:
814-235-8710
AccuWeather.com
Justin Roberti
814-235-8710
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 09, 2009 ) State College, Pa. - AccuWeather.com reports searchers recovered debris from Flight 447 Monday, including the aircraft's vertical stabilizer. This recovery may help investigators to pinpoint what happened to the Airbus 330.
The stabilizer was found floating on the ocean surface, which brings up new questions as to whether the turbulence and updrafts produced by the severe storms started a sequence of events that lead to a similar situation that happened to another Airbus in 2001.
In that incident, an Airbus taking off from JFK airport encountered wake turbulence from a 747 ahead of it. The result was a series of events that lead to the crash of Flight 587 in a Queens, NY neighborhood. While it is still too early to speculate on the cause of the crash, that fact that Flight 447 flew into severe turbulence and that its vertical stabilizer did not sink is significant.
Several pieces of luggage in addition to parts of the plane's wing section and a couple of seats were also found this weekend over 400 miles north of Brazil's Fernando de Noronha islands. Search efforts for more of the plane's wreckage will continue the next few days.
In this photo released by Brazil's Air Force, Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009. A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil on Monday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/Brazil's Air Force)
The area of the Atlantic where the debris were found can range in depth from 2,700 meters to 6,000 meters (about 9,000 feet to about 20,000 feet), according to Michael Arthur, a professor in the department of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.
The reason for this range is due to ridges and mountains near the mid-Atlantic ridge, an underwater mountain range near where the debris is suspected to be if it sank. This depth would make any recovery efforts of sunken debris very difficult, Arthur speculates.
The underwater ridges may also interfere with sound fields for any vessel using sound-based radar devices to locate debris.
If any parts of the aircraft sank to the bottom, these pieces would be under extreme amounts of pressure. For example, assuming none of these pieces contain any air pockets, an object in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water would undergo pressure of 7,348 pounds per square inch.
Searchers will have at least another day of relatively clear weather before the winds pick up and unsettled weather moves in to the area starting Thursday.
Fifteen more bodies from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last week, bringing the total count to 17.
Story by AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity and AccuWeather.com News Correspondent Gina Cherundolo
If you have questions or want to speak to a meteorologist, contact:
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
Or call our 24-hour press hotline:
814-235-8710
AccuWeather.com
Justin Roberti
814-235-8710
Roberti@AccuWeather.com
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