Accidents
France Starts Fourth AF447 Search Campaign
A fourth search campaign to find out what happened to

A fourth search campaign to find out what happened to Air France Flight 447 on June 1, 2009, has begun off the Brazilian coast in the South Atlantic Ocean. Wreck-location operations will take place from the Alucia, a ship with three small, unmanned submarines onboard that left the harbor of Suape, Brazil, on March 22. All 228 aboard the Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris died in the crash.

The latest search will start closer to the last known position (LKP). Search teams based the third attempt, conducted last year, on sophisticated drift simulations that directed them quite far north of the LKP. However, that approach yielded only disappointment.