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Pilot's chilling final words 'we're going to crash' as flight kills all 228 on board
plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board.The doomed Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009, plunged into the sea four hours after take off, while the captain handed over the controls during a storm.Five Brits were among those dead.It took two years for the plane wreckage and black box to be found in its entirely at the bottom of the ocean about 620 miles off Brazil's north-east coast.In what remains Air France's deadliest disaster, France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) concluded that ice crystals caused the autopilot to disconnect.Then the crew's reactions to the fault caused the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall.The tragedy of 228 deaths was a combination of technical failure and the pilots' inability to react to the plane stalling which sent it falling into the Atlantic Ocean at a terrifying speed of 11,000ft (3,352m) per minute.The pilots were left confused by a fault to the air-speed readings but then made the crucial mistake of pointing the nose of the plane upwards when it stalled instead of down.
