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Vanished (Air France Flight 447)

Apr 15, 201345mRating 8.5

On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447, a scheduled flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, stalls and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while flying through a thunderstorm, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board. The causes of the crash were incorrect airspeed readings due to ice blockage of the aircraft's pitot tubes, inappropriate control inputs and the pilots not taking recovery action until it was too late.

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Vanished (Air France Flight 447)

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Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

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Blind Landing (TANS Perú Flight 204)

Grand Canyon Disaster (United Airlines 718 and Trans World Airlines 2)

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Heading to Disaster (Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409)

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Vanished (Air France Flight 447)