Posted on 06/29/2016 3:52:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The flight data recorder contains information consistent with fault warnings transmitted by the Airbus Group SE A320 that pointed to smoke in one of the lavatories and the avionics bay, where key electronics are housed, Egyptian crash investigators said.
Wreckage recovered from the plane that crashed on May 19, killing all 66 people aboard, also showed signs of high temperature damage and soot, they said.
The findings are the most concrete evidence yet that a small number of automated messages transmitted by the Airbus A320 pointing to problems on the plane weren’t erroneous. They also are likely intensify the investigation around why smoke or even a fire may have occurred on the plane.
Accident investigators still haven’t determined why the plane, flying from Paris to Cairo, crashed.
Investigators said they are still working to repair the cockpit voice recorder, which was taken to France. French air-accident investigators are aiding the Egyptian-led probe. Once the device is repaired, it will be returned to Cairo for analysis. The cockpit voice recorder could yield information about how pilots reacted to the apparent smoke messages.
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According to this report, the flight data recorder was successfully repaired in France:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crashed-egyptair-flight-data-recorder-successfully-repaired-investigation-080820580—sector.html?nhp=1
Hmmm - smoke in the lavatory? Sounds like a bomb to me.
Just some hippy torching a fatty. Certainly not muslim terrorists.
Yah, sure. Spontaneous combustion in some muzzie’s oily shorts!
I would think the cockpit voice recorder is key here. Would shed light on pilot involvement, or not.. If there was a ‘boom’ sound..
Background noises may indeed hold the best clues.
Perhaps the emergency O2 generators went amuck?
Circuit boards are epoxied, temp-rated wiring/insulation would melt not burn. There’s nothing in avionics to burn.
In the absence of proof of a suicide bomber blowing himself/herself up in the bathroom, I still think it originated in the septic/holding tank - an explosive that reacted with or wouldn’t be affected by water, (heavy bathroom use before final approach) either placed in the tank beforehand or inserted via the toilet or galley pipes.
How hard is it to sneak a pack of matches onto an airplane? And then how hard would it be for somebody to grab a stack of paper towels and start a fire in the bathroom knowing that the bathroom is adjacent to where key electronic components are housed?
Guess they don’t have these new things called smoke detectors over there.
Wiring can indeed burn—see Swissair for one example.
Flight data recorder would have nothing on it that would indicate smoke in the head
This is nonsense. Particularly since Egypt claimed they got nothing from the black boxes so they were sent to France
Maybe someone had a stinger missile in his checked baggage... and it went off.
That may be but there are NO voices on the flight data recorder
Thermite. It would be easy to bring on a plane. A strip of magnesium tape could light it.
There was smoke in the WTC on 9-11 also, but that was AFTER the towers were hit by planes.
Smoke in the avionics bay.
That may not be terrorism.
Yeh a bomb usually causes fire and smoke.
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