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Departing from Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 2009 at 10:29 p.m., flight AF 447 bound for Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after a final contact with a Brazilian control center . On June 1, 2009 from 2:10 a.m., as it crossed an area of turbulence, the last traces of the Airbus A330 and its 216 passengers and twelve crew members were a salvo of 24 automatic anomaly messages and failures issued by the device in less than five minutes. “Pitot-Static Ffailure”, or “loss of speed indications”, indicates one of them by immediately pointing to the track of a failure of the three airspeed sensors of the plane. “The trigger for the tragedy”, according to the last magistrates who looked into the case.