DocumentCode
1275473
Title
How software found the Air France wreckage
Author
Ortiz, Rosaleen
Volume
46
Issue
8
fYear
2009
fDate
8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
18
Lastpage
18
Abstract
When Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro disappeared over the Atlantic in the early hours of 1 June, search and rescue teams had to look for survivors in an area almost as big as Great Britain. Not knowing exactly where the Airbus 330-200 went down, French and Brazilian authorities turned to new software developed for the U.S. Coast Guard that uses the location of debris to look back in time to estimate the most likely site of an accident.
Keywords
Aerospace simulation; Air accidents; Computational modeling; Computer crashes; Computer simulation; Marine vehicles; Oceans; Programming profession; Scattering; System testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2009.5186540
Filename
5186540
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