Posted on 07/06/2013 12:02:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
” It is not unlikely they were following the wrong glideslope “
CNN just stated that Flightaware shows a steeper glideslope for this aircraft today, than for the same flight yesterday.
I fly a lot. I HATE the crammed-in economy seats, the boarding process, the un-boarding process, walking down those long halls full of multitudes to get to my gate/baggage claim, but this story doesn’t make me FEAR flying at all.
I’d even go so far as to say modern aircraft design has benefitted from previous crashes by learning from them to design safer aircraft.
That only two died may be a testament to that.
Well other than wind shear, what's left? Gravitational worm hole?
How about the survival of the Humans and a testament to the Designer?
No, they won't. They will be interviewed, eventually, but NTSB will try not to disrupt their schedule.
It wasn’t the nuclear-medicine stress tests setting off sensors. It was an article about sensing the ‘stress hormones’. Ugh, still can’t find it.
I sure don’t see it. Look at the starboard engine laying next to the fuselage; that thing’s huge. Hard to hide it unless it’s burrowed into the ground. I’m guessing it was sheared-off or fell-off. There’s a chunk missing from port side wing, maybe where it used to be.
They are not “shear pin” in the way most people understand the term.
They are pins holding the pieces-parts together. They have a failure point (”shear”), like all things do, like rivets and such, but the pins are not designed to fail upon a crash/hard landing. They use pins because of engine changes and deport maintenance.
At what point are you going to design the pin to shear?
How many longitudinal G’s?
How many transverse G’s?
How about speed? Taxi speed when the jet depart the runway and goes into the dirt and gear fails at 50kts in the mud, will it fail then?
Anyway, got to start the BBQ.
See ya.
“Again, did someone forget to reset the altimeter to San Fransisco conditions?”
For a visual landing? Clear weather.
My sister is listening to KFI in LA, where a caller claiming to be a commercial pilot said ILS is turned off as a cost-savings due to the sequester. Anything to this?
“I am astonished that some people must write things like that.”
So am I. Stupidity and callousness in this country are getting worse by the second. The idiot cannot even spell!
Thanks. Good info. I’m not a pilot. duh.
Well, you’re the first one to bring it up.
Lets think about this logically. If a terrorist was going to blow up this plane, would they do it when it landed? Or over the Pacific Ocean?
I hate that EVERYTHING that happens now, terrorism is everyone’s first thought. We sound like whiny little girls jumping at shadows. Sometimes planes just crash.
Except parts have serial numbers and no reputable parts dealer or aircraft operator or OEM will ever use those parts again.
I am gone. See ya. . .
I am sure the pilot will be fired and sued for landing the plane a little short. Asiana is gonna get sued big time.
I had the same impression. Landing appears to have been offset vertically and horizontally. It wasn’t that far off for the aircraft to have remained so intact. Looks like it was off 3m vertically, but it reportedly landed on the wrong runway.
Incredibly short stopping distance. I’m surprised the passengers could make it out after the shock impact.
“. It is likely the Asian attempted to use the (inop) ILS and hit well short of the intended touchdown point.”
It is unlikely, not likely. Too much communications about approach for that to happen.
Man, that’s strange. I wonder if the turbine blades failed on impact and caused the rest of the engine to disintegrate, but it was at a low power setting and that seems unlikely. I don’t get it. But there are a whole bunch of small pieces out there.
Makes me want to go back to the J-3, 12 gallon fuel tank, 65hp engine.
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