Featured Map: Progress on AF 447 and UPS 6 Crash Investigations (5 April 2011)

Yesterday, significant progress was announced on the investigations into two airliner accidents.

Air France 447 was an Airbus A330-200 which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009 during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Yesterday, the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) held a press conference and presented photographs of the wreckage following an announcement the previous day that a search team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) had located the wreckage of the flight in water 3,900 meters deep.

United Parcel Service (UPS) 6 was a Boeing 747-400F which crashed near Dubai on 3 September 2009 after a fire was detected in the main-deck cargo area 22 minutes after departure from Dubai. In the United Arab Emirates, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) released its preliminary report on the crash of UPS flight 6.

Today's Featured Map shows the paths of these two flights and the approximate locations where they crashed.

Additional information:

• Air France 447:
  • Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA):
    • Flight AF 447
    • Sea Search Operations, phase 4
    • Sea Search Operations: wreckage images
    • Undersea Search Operations Flight 447 – Press Conference
  • News Release: WHOI-led Team Locates Air France Wreckage
  • Featured Map: Air France 447 Search to Resume (5 February 2011)
  • ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A330-203 F-GZCP Sào Pedro and Sào Paulo Archipelago
• United Parcel Service (UPS) 6:
  • General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA):
    • Air Accident Preliminary Report: Boeing 747-400F/N571UP (GCAA Accident Report No. 13/2010)
  • ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-44AF (SCD) N571UP Dubai Airport (DXB)