Summary: An attempt to distill the crash of Air France 447 down to the the simple causes and dispel some of the fanciful and unhelpful theories that surround this accident.<br> <br> <br> <br> The accident aircraft, an A330-200.<br> <br> <br> <br> The location of the wreckage of Flight 447.<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Pawel Kierzkowski, Valter Campanato/ABr and Roberto Maltchik Repórter da TV Brasil.
