Pilots know that in the middle of the Atlantic they are on their own. Following this idea, the traffic controllers from Africa never picked up flight AF447. Traffic controllers from Senegal to Spain unsuccessfully tried for more then six hours to locate the aircraft. An important fact which was discovered consist in that the aircraft's flight computer, programmed to send automatic position reports by satellite, was continuing to transmit data. After the last radio contact, at 1:35 a.m., Flight 447's computer sends automatic position reports at 01:40, 01:50, 02:00 and, finally, 02:10. These automatic signals proved to be essentials in the finding of the wreckage after five days from the crash.
One of the first things they want to elucidate is if this was an unfortunate accident or a deliberate terrorist attack. The reconstruction of the wreckage is one of the most important techniques in accident investigation. Knowing the wreckage can help on work around the possibilities about how the plane crashed or if it broke up in the air. In order to reconstruct they need to take the wreckage and reassemble the existing pieces so they can analyze the forces that were acting in the airplane in its final moments of flight. At that point authorities recovered only two of the "four corners" consisting in the tailfin and the nosecone. In addition it was a part of the floor section from the cargo compartment. After analyzing those parts the following conclusions were drawn: when the plane hit the water with relatively high speed it was level and in one piece, so basically the plane fell from the sky. The problem was to find out what happened? The documentary focuses in here to present some of the characteristics of this brilliant piece of technique which A330 is. It has numerous newly developed technological features, it has a powerful computer system and it's very safe. One of these features consists in the fly-by-wire electronic system.
" (Country 447). ... In a world void of love and meaning, Norton turns to the only hope he can find: "[T]he child hung in the jungle of shadows, just below the beam from which he had launched his flight into space" (Lame 486). With his son's death, Sheppard's distortions are shattered, and the agony of his grief crashes in. ...