Air France Flight 447
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Air France Flight 447 was a 2009 transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board and prompting major changes in aviation safety and pilot training.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AF447 | 3 |
| Air France Flight 447 canonical | 2 |
| AFR447 | 1 |
| Air France Flight 447 accident investigation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T788550 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Air France Flight 447 Context triple: [Air France, notableAccident, Air France Flight 447]
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A.
US Airways Flight 1549
US Airways Flight 1549 was the 2009 passenger flight that famously ditched in the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines, with all 155 people on board surviving.
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B.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that mysteriously disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, becoming one of the most puzzling aviation disasters in history.
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C.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board and becoming a major international aviation and geopolitical tragedy.
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D.
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was the hijacked Boeing 767 that was deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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E.
United Airlines Flight 93
United Airlines Flight 93 was a hijacked passenger flight during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to overpower the hijackers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Air France Flight 447 Target entity description: Air France Flight 447 was a 2009 transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board and prompting major changes in aviation safety and pilot training.
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A.
US Airways Flight 1549
US Airways Flight 1549 was the 2009 passenger flight that famously ditched in the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines, with all 155 people on board surviving.
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B.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that mysteriously disappeared in 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, becoming one of the most puzzling aviation disasters in history.
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C.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board and becoming a major international aviation and geopolitical tragedy.
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D.
American Airlines Flight 11
American Airlines Flight 11 was the hijacked Boeing 767 that was deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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E.
United Airlines Flight 93
United Airlines Flight 93 was a hijacked passenger flight during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to overpower the hijackers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (79)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
air disaster
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aviation accident ⓘ commercial passenger flight ⓘ |
| aircraftEngineManufacturer | General Electric ⓘ |
| aircraftEngineModel | CF6-80E1A3 ⓘ |
| aircraftEngines | twin-engine jet ⓘ |
| aircraftEngineType | turbofan ⓘ |
| aircraftManufacturer | Airbus ⓘ |
| aircraftModelFamily | Airbus A330 ⓘ |
| aircraftRegistration | F-GZCP ⓘ |
| aircraftType |
Airbus A330
ⓘ
surface form:
Airbus A330-203
|
| airline | Air France ⓘ |
| airspaceRegion | Atlantic Ocean airspace between Brazil and Senegal ⓘ |
| blackBoxesRecovered | yes ⓘ |
| cockpitVoiceRecorderRecovered | yes ⓘ |
| cockpitVoiceRecorderRecoveryDate | 2011-05 ⓘ |
| contributingFactor |
automation confusion
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inadequate crew resource management ⓘ inappropriate pilot inputs ⓘ pitot tube icing ⓘ unreliable airspeed indications ⓘ |
| countryMostVictimsFrom | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | France ⓘ |
| crashArea | off the northeastern coast of Brazil ⓘ |
| crashLocation | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| crashRegion | equatorial Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| crewRole |
captain
ⓘ
first officer ⓘ relief pilot ⓘ |
| dateOfAccident | 2009-06-01 ⓘ |
| departureDateTimeLocal | 2009-05-31 evening ⓘ |
| destinationAirport |
Charles de Gaulle Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
|
| destinationCity | Paris ⓘ |
| destinationCountry | France ⓘ |
| fatalities | 228 ⓘ |
| flightDataRecorderRecovered | yes ⓘ |
| flightDataRecorderRecoveryDate | 2011-05 ⓘ |
| flightNumber |
Air France Flight 447
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
AF447
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| flightType | scheduled international passenger flight ⓘ |
| IATAFlightNumber |
Air France Flight 447
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
AF447
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| ICAOFlightNumber |
Air France Flight 447
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
AFR447
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| impactOutcome |
aircraft destroyed
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total hull loss ⓘ |
| intendedArrivalDateLocal | 2009-06-01 morning ⓘ |
| investigatingAuthority |
Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile
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surface form:
Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety
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| investigatingAuthorityAbbreviation | BEA ⓘ |
| maximumDepthOfWreckage | about 3900 m ⓘ |
| memorialsLocation |
Brazil
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| monthOfAccident | June ⓘ |
| notableClassification |
deadliest Airbus A330 accident at the time
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deadliest accident in Air France history at the time ⓘ |
| notableConsequence |
changes in airline safety management practices
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changes in high-altitude manual flying training ⓘ changes in pilot training ⓘ changes in stall recovery training ⓘ debate on cockpit automation dependency ⓘ improvements in long-duration underwater search techniques ⓘ modification of pitot tubes on Airbus aircraft ⓘ revisions to procedures for unreliable airspeed ⓘ |
| notableIssue |
aircraft remained in stall until impact
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stall warning repeatedly activated ⓘ |
| numberOfCrew | 12 ⓘ |
| numberOfPassengers | 216 ⓘ |
| onboardOccupants | 228 ⓘ |
| operatorICAOCode | AFR ⓘ |
| originAirport | Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport ⓘ |
| originCity | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| originCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| phaseOfFlightAtAccident | cruise ⓘ |
| primaryCauseCategory | loss of control in flight ⓘ |
| routeType | transatlantic ⓘ |
| survivalRate | 0% ⓘ |
| survivors | 0 ⓘ |
| timeOfLossOfContactUTC | 2009-06-01 around 02:14 ⓘ |
| weatherCondition |
convective weather
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thunderstorms ⓘ |
| wreckageRecovery | underwater search operation ⓘ |
| yearOfAccident | 2009 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Air France Flight 447 Description of subject: Air France Flight 447 was a 2009 transatlantic passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board and prompting major changes in aviation safety and pilot training.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.