Flight 447’s last terrifying minutes pieced together
Aviation sources in France said automated messages sent by the plane’s systems had allowed them to reconstruct events which appeared to show the Airbus broke up in mid-air as it flew through a hugely violent storm carrying 228 people.
The pilot sent a manual signal at 11pm local time saying he was flying through an area of CBs – electrically charged cumulonimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning.
