The vanishing of Air France Flight 447 June 2009 The vanishing of AF 447 was easy to blend into myth. No passenger jet in modern history then before Malaysian 777 had disappeared so completely -without a Mayday, witness or radar trace. The airplane itself, an Airbus A330, was considered to be among the safest. Equipped with modern fly-by-wire system, designed to reduce human error by letting computers control many aspects of the flight. And when in the middle of the night, in the middle of the ocean Flight 447 seemed to have disappeared from the sky it was tempting to deliver a tidy narrative about the hubris of building a self-flying airplane, Icarus falling from the sky! As a former Pilot Training Manager and A330 trainer and CAA examiner I explain the painstaking research that followed and take you into the cockpit during its final moments. When it was at last discovered years later, piece together what the accident investigation discovered and the procedures subsequently put in place!