Posted on 03/24/2022 5:31:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
According to the officials involved the main crater, located in a mountainous area of the Teng region, has an approximate extension of 2500 square meters and has a depth of about twenty meters. Remains of engine blades, part of the left and right horizontal stabilizers, actuators, and other aircraft components have been found there, along with crew certificates. In addition, Zheng Xi, head of the rescue corps, said that human remains were found at the site.
The piece found afar from the main crash site is approximately 1.3 meters long and about 10 cm wide and appears to be part of one of the CFM56 engines that powered the aircraft.
International practice after a plane crash indicates that the accident investigation usually involves the accident investigation board of the country where the plane was designed, along with representatives of the aircraft and engine manufacturer.
In this case the United States, the country that designed and produced the aircraft, can appoint proxies to assist in the investigation. The NTSB announced shortly after the accident that it had chosen an investigator as its representative. However, because «travel to China is subject to visas and restrictions due to COVID-19, this person’s travel is pending. These issues will need to be circumvented before a decision is made to go to the site,» the agency said in a statement.
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Who was onboard, and what did they know
or
Who was the pilot and why was he suicidal
or
Who stole the powerful Octium IV computer chip from E-Com-Con ?
This would suggest catastrophic engine failure as the cause, although there’s not enough information to be sure...
That’s a rational guess...
Most of the wreckage I saw in video was postage stamp sized. This was most probably controlled flight into terrain.
One engine. How many others?
Only if that controlled flight was 90 degrees to horizontal.
I am pretty sure the black boxes did not survive.
They found one of them (I think the flight data recorder) What kind of condition it is in remains to be seen.
Much has been made of parts found a distance from the crater.
All aircraft have air speed and G force limits beyond which things break off the air frame... Ailerons, horizontal and vertical stabilizer....all will flutter and separate at some point. One analysis calculated the aircraft speed at one point in the dive was more than 700 MPH.
So whether parts separated from an on board explosive or whether they separated from speed caused by loss of control will not be known for some time, unless the black boxes are operative and spell it out.
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So it got hit with a missile.
Maybe somebody forgot to replace a set of screws.
Or went off shift expecting the next shift to put them back in — but forgot to tell them it had tp be down.
Pretty sure a catastrophic engine(s) failure does not cause an aircraft to go into a near sudden vertical 90 degree nose dive into terrain.
As a pilot I can assure you this was not a CFIT incident. This was a near-vertical uncontrolled crash.
So ou know for a fact that the pilot didn’t intentionally force the aircraft down like the Silk air pilot did, then there is this series:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4048943/posts?page=24#24
Looked pretty controlled to me. Straight in.
It could also suggest a bomb. An engine can shear off due to g forces induced by out of control flight. A turbine can explode due to failure as has happened many times. The engine remains attached to the air frame. Only huge g loads will detach it which means total uncontrolled flight maneuvers.
175,000 lbs, 700 mph
lots of energy to dissipate in a short distance for sure
no surprise they aren’t finding much to identify
Again, as a pilot, that was not a CFIT incident.
So was that flight that crashed in the Florida Everglades due to O2 generators in the cargo hold catching fire…straight down.
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