What really happened to Air France Flight 447?
Here are the ten most plausible scenarios for what happened to Air France Flight 447, lost off northeastern Brazil to waters off West Africa. The Airbus A330-200 was cruising normally at 35,000 feet and 522 mph just before it literally disappeared nearly four hours into the flight.
| Someone Turned on a Cell Phone | ||
| Investigators are narrowing in on the possibility that a cellular phone or possibly an iPhone catastrophically interfered with the aircraft’s avionics.
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| Global Warming | ||
| Global warming experts have been predicting this massive superstorm scenario where warmer oceans churn out massive thunderstorms. Flight 447 was just the first victim in a dangerous new sky that could now be unsafe to fly in.
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| Somali Pirates | ||
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Forced to operate further and further from shore, four Somali pirates booked tickets on the Air France flight and planned to ransom the passengers for millions. Plausibility: |
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| The Swine Flu / H1N1 Mutated | ||
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In a nightmare scenario the H1N1 virus also known as the swine flu mutated on board the Air France flight. The crew and passengers literally melted trapped in the re circulated plague filled air. Plausibility: |
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| Alien Abduction | ||
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The American military has refused to release any satellite imagery and radar tracking from the day the flight disappeared. UFO experts fear flight 447 was just the latest and most brazen in a string of alien abductions.
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| Snakes on a Plane | ||
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Snakes are constantly being found on flights from tropical countries where they slither into airplane compartments. Aviation experts fear the snake unknowingly wrapped itself around a vulnerable electrical nexus on the airbus and literally turned the power off. Plausibility: |
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| Struck Home Floating on Balloons | ||
| In an apparent copycat of the movie UP a German family of Disney fans strapped hundreds of atmospheric weather balloons to their Munich home. Investigators theorize that after nearly a week aloft the family died of high altitude hypoxia and the home floated into air traffic lanes and collided with Flight 447.
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| Lost Island | ||
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The popular TV series LOST is actually based on an nautical legend that an island covered by magnetic power has been home to castaways who crashed on it’s shores. In three years the passengers of flight 427 will go back to the 1970s and prevent the crash using a hydrogen bomb. Plausibility: |
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| The Brazilian Triangle | ||
| Countless ships and planes over the years have been lost in an torturous seas to the north of Brazil. Like the Bermuda triangle the troubled waters have similar magnetic anomalies.
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| French Woman with Hairdryer | ||
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The fire that brought down Swissair jet off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998 was likely caused by an electrical fault in the plane’s entertainment system. Aviation experts have long warned against allowing more and more electrical devices was cheating disaster, and fear that a new policy allowing hair dryers would lead to disaster. |
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