Posted on 06/06/2009 7:12:59 AM PDT by luckybogey
What have we learned from the BEA dog and pony show in Paris this morning? Not much!
1. ACARS messages were sent every ten minutes to facilitate the investigators to track the route of the aircraft “certain degree of precision on route”.
2. There 24 messages received from the ACARS system with different failures. Fourteen of those messages were sent within the space of one minute, from 02:10UTC to 02:11UTC.
3. There was inconsistency between measured velocities and indications of systems failures including the autothrust and autopilot.
4. BEA says the ACARS information was designed for maintenance and not investigative and therefore the failure of system only gave an indication as to the status of particular systems.
5. Take off weight 233T, fuel 68 T.
6. Weather. In the Intertropical convergence zone, there were Cumulonimbus clouds however nothing out of the ordinary. “Conditions normal” for this time of the year with “no anomalies”. At 02:15UTC the growth phase of the local cumulonimbus had already passed and the clouds were in the “lower end” of their cycle.
7. Ocean currents since the day of the accident have been drifting eastwards. The beacons transmit a 37.5kHz signal with an intensity of 160dB but, given they could be at 4,000m depth, the search teams on the surface would have to be “almost on top” of them to pick this up.
8. BEA “cannot guarantee” that the beacons have not separated from the recorders.
According to The Aviation Herald, the NTSB has accepted an invitation by the BEA to assist in the investigation and have dispatched Bill English as their representative joined by engineers from the FAA, General Electrics (manufacturer of the CF6 engines) and Honeywell.
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Who programmed the Airbus A330 flight control software? Please tell me it wasn’t Microsoft...
Wasn’t there an article a few months back detailing the possibility of terrorists reprogramming computers?
Wasn’t there an article a few months back detailing the possibility of terrorists reprogramming computers?
Missed that article, but I'm sure those turds would try anything...
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