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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
they said they found the debris field from the Air.
they later said ships arrived on the scene and confirmed it.
the brazillian government then announced they had found the plane "without a doubt"
they named specific things they found.
then they said "oh.. yeah... uhm... no... not really"
either there is a massive chain of incompetence or a cover up.
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I'd go with incompetence.... (AND misinformation) here's a recent, long article about it
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/wo...nted=1&_r=1&em
some quotes:
"Brazil’s military forces said that the ONLY piece of the debris they RECOVERED thus far from the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday did not belong to the Air France Flight 447 that disappeared Sunday night on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, throwing the investigation into confusion and angering the French government."
"The Brazilian military had not initially recovered the other debris spotted by search planes, including what they thought was an airplane seat and life jacket, because it was concentrating on finding survivors. "
"In a news conference at the investigation’s base in Recife Friday morning, the military said that it still believed the debris spotted Tuesday in a 2-mile stretch belonged to the Air France plane and that it was doubling back to recover the pieces while battling rain and poor visibility in the area"
"The confusion started when the Brazilian military said on its Web site Thursday that it had recovered an 8-foot long structural support piece, a pallet, used in the cargo area of airplanes. But by Thursday night, the military had retracted that and said that the pallet — wooden — did not, in fact, belong to Flight 447"
... so, basically the plane crashed somewhere in that area, the Brazillians might have seen life vests floating around, but they did not recover them, they just recovered a big part of something they believed it comes from the plane, and it turns out they were wrong...
and now we got GFY'ers making up conspiracy theories
It is likely that in a day or three some real debris from the plane will be found, recovered and confirmed.
Then with some luck, they might find the black boxes and then we might know more about the causes of the crash...