Friday, June 19, 2009

A PROPÓSITO DA QUEDA DO A-330 DA AIR FRANCE

As duas imagens que publico não têm nada que ver com a queda do avião da Air France mas com o avião de uma companhia brasileira que caíu sobre a Amazónia, há um ou dois anos, depois de ser atingido por um pequeno jacto.

As fotos foram sacadas do chip de memória de uma máquina digital de um passageiro que seguia no fatídico vôo.

As imagens não deixam de ser "esquisitas": na segunda há a silhueta de um passsageiro a ser "sugado" pelo buracão, sem que a passageira da fila da frente tenha o cabelo minimamente agitado pela ventania...

O texto que acompanha as fotos é o seguinte:

The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the aircraft, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre .

It can be imagined that he was standing during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

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