Google Earth Blog’s Frank Taylor has dug up some of the best community-created maps of the Air France Flight 447 crash site. One map, created by ‘rafaelds‘, shows the approximate flight path from known data, the points at which radar contact was lost, and the position at which the doomed flight send its last signal to air traffic controllers. Another map, created by ‘smokeonit‘, overlays a weather map over the crash site enabling a fairly clear picture of the dangers the flight attempted to navigate through. Strangely, Flight 447 appears to have chosen to fly through the worst weather at a time when its radar was still working.
