Posted on 06/01/2009 3:50:07 AM PDT by rdl6989
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HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO A HUGE PLANE LIKE THAT? TRACKING DEVICES? HEAT SCANNERS....THOSE STINKEN THINGS PEOPLE USE AT THE BEACH....METAL DETECTORS....COME ON PEOPLE
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Perhaps you could immediately come to their aide. And quick!It must grow tiresome always being the smartest guy in the room.
Good luck,
SkyShot.
My thoughts exactly!
I promise, I wasn’t behaving poorly. :)
I think I just heard him talking about it behind me. It was a beautiful sight to see the night storm in the distance, but I had a knot in my stomach about what would happen if it hit the plane.
Oh well, that’s what I get for believing a teenager, but in that instance, ignorance truly was bliss!
LOL!
The French are going to have to go to London and find Daniel’s mother.
I had the pleasure of flying into JFK while hurricane Floyd was hitting Florida.
I’ve never experienced anything like it.
I’m sure my neighbor to the right of me was real pleased to watch me crush my water bottle.
I believe this is mostly true. People and equipment inside the aircraft are not in danger. The metal skin of the aircraft conducts lightning around, but not through the interior. However, because of the high temperature of lightening, the point where the lightening enters and then exits the skin of the aircraft may suffer some damage.
“vanished from radar”
Is there even radar coverage in that area? I doubt it. I’ve heard a report that it failed to show up on the Cape Verde or Senegal radar as scheduled. That would be a more accurate description.
Air France told CNN the jet was traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris when contact was lost. The airline said flight AF447 was carrying 216 passengers in addition to a crew of 12. The plane is listed as an Airbus A330.This wouldn't have happened if Israel would have stopped building settlements.
WAS IT FULL OR EMPTY? But seriously, how terrifying for you!
For one thing a lot of aircraft now have various composites, not metal, in their outer skins, that don’t conduct as well.
Aircraft are designed and tested to survive general lightning. However these rare positive strokes are a whole different animal, and it was only recently it was understood how incredibly powerful they are.
There was a little left in the bottom of the bottle - the good ‘ole days when you could still carry a drink on the plane.
Yes, and a passenger commented the Capt came out of the cockpit with the aircraft log under his arm.
I know I would have more important things to do If I had just taken my plane into the river... like check my passengers are off safely! Only reason to grab the logbook is if there was a previous write up I was unhappy about. Like the dual engine power reduction on the previous week, same airplane tail number!
That makes a lot of sense - thanks for the explanation!
If they were 200-300 miles off coast, they may have already switched to HF radio (that is, out of normal VHF radio contact range). HF radio is very sensitive to atmospheric disturbances like lighting.
As far as the maintenance or dispatch datalink, I'm not sure if the Airbus datalink system works while out of VHF radio range. Even if it does (using satellite for relay), if the failures were quick and catastrophic, there may have only been 1-2 transmissions before communications stopped (primary, auxiliary and emergency electrical power loss).
And yes -- having done SAR searches over the ocean, it's amazing how the ocean can swallow up a large plane leaving almost no trace and no debris until it washes up on shore days later.
Most ELTs are salt-water activated. If the aircraft is in the drink, in pieces or intact, it may take a few hours to even know that for sure and then get a positive search grid to relay to search teams ...
Ohh dude....
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time to update those little black boxes..they never work!
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More gems from one of the world’s authorities on the subject.
How can they not have GPS beacons on these things?
Thank you for that post.
Interesting. Another depiction of the routing had it overflying Brazil for quite a ways, coasting out over the area of the coastline that turns back towards the Northwest.
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