It seems if a nose dive or severe turbulence was responsible,a mayday call could have been made.An explosion of some kind would seem to be more of a instant event preventing any mayday call.Here’s hoping they find the black boxes and answers,to maybe prevent any future tragedies of this kind.Rakershore,I don’t believe anyone is making you stay in this area,union or non-union.If I felt so bad about living here,I believe I would move WAY away if I were you.

There have been reports that another Air France flight out of Brazil received bomb threats just days before this one disappeared.  They will have to find the black box before we have any idea if that is what took place with this flight.

Can’t help but feel that terrorist activities are ramping up these days.  I’m sure Obama’s apology tour in the middle east will calm that down. *oozing sarcasm*

claycity you of all people, don’t you fly a plane? This is so sad for the familys. They will probably have no closure. We can all pray that they find the black boxes so there may be some insight to what happened (not speculation)

i commented early in the story and apologize for the lost comment. i thought they would really find the plane somewhere safe.

The comments seen listed in this posting make me feel asshamed to be from this area.  This was a man with a family.  How can anyone disregard the life of another human as some of you are.Making these comments does not change the fact that 228 humans lost their life. With the comments i’ve seen here, no wonder Thyssen Krupp will not use local companies to build their plant. I bet the illegals have more compassion for human life than some of you. Afterall the are willing to work for what they have instead of looking to every new company that comes to the area to give out contracts too over priced lazy workers.  Look at GM and their union labor force.  They are now bankrupt and many losing their job after not willing to come off their $75.00 per hour salaries.  But I am sure all of the local union workers fill that this man is the reason they are lazy and work under contracts that cause jobs to go overseas and to illeagals workers.  Pull your heads out of the sand and be a human.

How can you joke about something soo horrific as this as to compare it to a tv show. Where is your humanity or do you have any? This man died horribly along with many others and most of the comments are inregards to whether or not ThyssenKrupp hired illegals. I dont think he is being reported as anymore important than the other victims just the connection with his employer and our city. You people make me sick.

Ahhh the ignorance.  Do you people ever read?  ThyssenKrupp never hired illegals in Alabama.  Major construction companies sub-contracted out most of the work.  They hired the illegals.  I’m completely against hiring illegals myself, but there has been plenty of times I’ve hired someone to work on my house when I have not forced everyone working for the guy to prove their citizenship.  Can you imagine having to do that on the scale of 10,000?  Our Federal government can’t even do it.

isnt this how lost started?

And this guy is more important than the other passengers how? Why are we stressing this guy in the new? Who cares if his company is building here with “Illegals”.

Maybe the airline subcontracted the maintenance work on the airbus to a low bidder contractor that used cheap undocumented works and bypassed a few rules to get it done? lets hope not. maybe we’ll get lucky and they will get a signal from the blackbox and we will know some more about it. To Eric and all on board R.I.P.