Undiscovering Flight 447

Brazilian officials have just released this astonishing news; the debris identified as the wreckage of missing Air France Flight 477 did not belong to the Airbus 330 as reported earlier.

"Searchers are back to square one," France's Transportation Minister, Dominique Bussereau, admitted to RTL. "Our planes and naval ships have seen nothing."

Two items had tipped Brazilians officials into announcing that they'd 'discovered' the missing aircraft - a wooden cargo pallet and a large slick of engine oil. French officials developed doubts when they confirms that the Air France flight didn't use wooden pallets - and there was more oil on the surface of the water than could possibly have come from the engines of an Airbus 330.

So the question still remains - what happened to Flight 447? And, more importantly, where is it? In this instance, no evidence is more puzzling than some.

Equally puzzling - just where did the pallet and oil that Brazilian officials recovered actually come from?

Flight goes missing...

Mummy Militant doesn't like flying...

Which means, considering we're flying to Paris in just over a month's time, that it's spectacularly inopportune that a similar flight, from Rio to Charles de Gualle, simply vanished this morning.

Air France flight 337, an Airbus A330 carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew, disappeared from radar less than 200 miles northeast of Brazil's coastline.

Whatever happened to it, the prognosis can't be good...

I can't think of anything worse for the families of those passengers... It's almost certain that the plane went down - but without having any information about where, how and why, it leaves a big question mark over the whole incident. Should they begin grieving? How can they? When the possibility exists, however ridiculously remote, that they might have survived.

(Although could they? Really?)

In any event, come our transatlantic traveling, Xanax and gin and tonics will be the order of the day!

What with the plane crashing into the Hudson river, another plummeting to destruction in upstate New York and now this, I think it's entirely reasonable to be a little nervous about flying these days!

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