Today marks the 4th anniversary of this crash. For those unaware,
Air France Flight 447 was an Airbus A320 aircraft that was traveling from Rio De Janiro Brazil to Paris France when at around 2:10 AM, it disappeared. Turns out the plane had ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic after entering what is known as a Stall, where the plane's nose is up high enough to reduce lift on the wings. The pilots had no idea this was occuring because the pitot probes were malfunctioning due to being covered in ice. Furthermore, it was pitch black outside and they were in a deadzone so they had no way to contact anyone at Air Traffic Control. To add to this, they were recieving error messages as a result of the failed pitot probes (24 in a matter of 4 minutes) that were telling the pilots that the plane's automated systems were failing. Since the pilots had no training in reacting to this type of situation, the plane fell from the sky, hitting the water perfectly flat. It took around 2 years to find the wreckage due to how deep the wreckage was and of course the lack of cooordinates. This all began because the plane's onboard radar didn't detect the bigger storm that was behind the smaller one, leading the pilots to believe the storm wasn't big enough to be a problem.