Posted on 03/25/2015 5:24:23 AM PDT by maggief
NEW evidence has emerged that the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in southern France yesterday dived for 18 minutes, and not eight as previously thought.
Frances Transport Minister Segolene Royal said this morning that the crew had stopped responding to radio messages at 10.30am, with the plane flying over the Mediterranean sea.
The aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain in the French Alps at 10.48am, suggesting that the plane had descended from 28,000ft to 2,000ft without signalling an emergency.
Ms Royal added that events in the cockpit in the 60 seconds between 10.30am and 10.31am were crucial and could shed light on what caused the disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at scotsman.com ...
The other thing that is interesting.... If I heard the facts correctly..... it descended from 38,000 to 2,000 in 18 minutes. If on a straight line, that’s a nice round number of 2,000 feet per minute.
That altimeter is an old version standby altimeter. It is not the primary altimeter. Most carriers have replaced the round standby instruments with a single digital one that uses a separate power source, takes less room, and is easier to maintain.
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Good for you. And anyone that flies with you! But you went out of your way, most don't have a appreciation for how important it is.
re: I’m sure the flight data recorder will clear most of this mystery up.
Don’t hold your breath. News reports say the CVR memory is “unreadable” and the FDR memory card is missing (with an implication of dislodged in crash, not removed before flight).
An ambiguous claim, a safe statement by its ambiguity. 'Many' civilian pilots are prior military pilots, and all of them have had it, and have it around every 3 years during their military flying careers.
Most professional pilots are acutely aware of the effects of hypoxia, because it is constantly trained in initial and recurrent training for every aircraft and crew position change.
If that were true there would be no need for altitude chamber training, "mostly".
You're beginning to sound like a WH spokesperson, airline pilot version!
Those numbers of the passengers on-board were posted in media, the first day of the crash incident. Actually, the entire information of the whole incident has been sloppy and misleading from day one!!! I guess the “Obama” cover up has begun!
With supposed, “Black Box” read out problems, we probably will never know what really happened to this aircraft. Seems to be, the new mantra for just about every deadly aircraft incident!!! Hide the truth from Joe & Jane public across the world, and...screw the families, friends and loved ones of the tragic & innocent victims that were killed in the crash!!! SAD!!!
The input can be strictly digital. The read-out, needle and dial, rather than a screen read-out. Think auto tachometer. The needle and dial you read in a modern car is driven off a sensor, not a spinning cable.
Not if the autopilot disconnected due to a mechanical failure.
Straw man! Shame!
“Priority” being a key word. Also economics, and government mandates! Are you so naïve?
Yup. Naive. 30 year airline captain. Naive. Clueless.
Please cite that occurrence in the past.
Can't agree with this. I"m an engineer experienced with race car crashes at very high speed. We design them to lose parts so they will slow more quickly. An aircraft that broke up mid-air would consist of a number of fairly large pieces plus some small ones. All the pieces would have severely increased aero drag, and individually much lower energy, than the whole plane together. That would increase the likelihood of fairly large pieces remaining, as they would lose a lot of speed before impact.
A land speed record car crashing at 450+ mph turns into shreds. If you can make the car come apart, you can give the driver an opportunity to survive in a hardened cockpit cell. Of course, the initial deceleration will probably kill him.
I don't think you get it. Sully thought "out of the box", and saved over a hundred people's lives because of it. I'd wager that 90 plus percent of pilots would not have survived the scenario he faced that fateful day, and that makes him more than an "average airline pilot". And what of the universal praise he received from everyone on the inside and outside of the industry, praise not usually heaped on "average airline pilots"!
Regarding his Airbus criticism, it's all the more believable because he knows the A320 well. He's given this issue a lot of thought. He doesn't have to be "an engineer" -- they are notorious for failing to account for human factors -- like putting a stick in an airliner, that barely moves, moves independently of the other stick, and potentially keeps your inputs hidden from the other pilot!
Are you saying a particular scenario can't happen because we have never known it to happen before? If so, do you work for the FAA? Because that would explain your reasoning!
Due to the possibility of a blackout, glass cockpit aircraft also have backup analogue displays for key flight instruments such as the airspeed indicator and altimeter.
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