<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d1177ce8-7dc7-469d-84b2-b467fa3112ec/960365BD-7E81-4178-8778-DC5C3C126FA4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp" href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.seattlepi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><DIV class="blogtitle">Control operators didn't know Flight 447 status hours after crash</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.seattlepi.com/img/953EE768-1137-4DE1-89DA-BDC1A8447895" alt="Picture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><P>French investigators are <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL286683820090702">inquiring</A> into why it took six hours between when Air France Flight 447 disappeared and an emergency was declared.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><P>An interim report <A href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172815.asp">released Thursday</A> gives a play by play of the contact between the control towers in South America and Africa as they slowly began to realize that the plane is lost. The details show that control operators on the ground were discussing the flight's whereabouts for hours after the plane had crashed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><P>About eight hours after the plane crash, the first ship is sent but finds no debris. Finally, authorities determine that crash is closest to Brazil and that Brazil should handle the search.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/172822.asp"><P>The report is based on transcripts from the control towers, and the plethora of acronyms makes it hard to read. Still, it's fascinating once you get used to all the capital letters. I've copied out of the report from two sections and arranged it so that it's in chronological order below.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/960365BD-7E81-4178-8778-DC5C3C126FA4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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