Posted on 05/27/2011 6:34:47 PM PDT by Greysard
"Black box recordings from Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago, revealed new details about the plane’s final moments. But the report did not assign blame or give an explanation for the crash, which killed all 228 people aboard."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Plastic planes flown by computers (w/ French software) are too advanced for me.
They found the black box???
An orange painted box called a black box by our government. Go figure.
Air France crash ping!
BS
Airbus? No fly.
As the fellow who posted the “WHY” thread axed, why don’t they make entire airplanes out of the indestructible material that the black boxes are made of?
“An orange painted box called a black box by our government.”
That’s racist. :-)
First, they aren't indestructible.
Second, the plane would be so heavy it couldn't leave the ground.
Look at Obama's BEASTMOBILE. It couldn't even clear a small ramp.
I go on them but feel nervous since the tail separated from one leaving JFK.
Oh, geez, no, really?
Yes, a month ago. Look there for photos, they are copyrighted and I am not linking them here as images.
Wikipedia has more about this recent recovery:
The BEA announced that on 26 April, after a 12-hour dive by the Remora 6000, the flight data recorder chassis had been found, although without the crash-survivable memory unit, which is the actual data storage medium. On 1 May the memory unit was found and lifted on board the Île de Sein by the ROV.
Upon examination the recorders were found to be in good shape, and here is the data from them (just the quick facts, for the moment.) The next step is to simulate likely scenarios until the replay matches what really happened. Only the airspeed is suspect, other instruments were OK all along, so this should be very much doable.
“the report did not assign blame”
That would just be counterproductive... Everyone knows that assigning blame can do terrible things to your psyche. Gotta make these pilots feel good about themselves. Afterall, they only killed several hundred.
From an article I read earlier today, the Captain had left the cockpit to catch some zzzs before it was time for him to land the plane (All within protocol). The most experienced pilot was not in control when things started to go down hill, not that may have mattered. Who knows?
an Obama voter too no doubt...(sorry)
“An orange painted box called a black box by our government.”
No wonder it took them so long to find it. They were looking for the wrong color:
“Captain Nemo.... I see an orange box there on the sea floor.”
“Nah... We’re looking for a black one.”
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