Posted on 06/01/2009 7:11:10 PM PDT by traumer
A commercial pilot has said he saw a "fire" on the Atlantic Ocean close to the route of a missing Air France plane.
The pilot, for TAMAirlines, said he spotted what appeared to be orange marks in the ocean near to where the jet went missing.
More follows...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
I suppose this means John will have to add a milliseconds field in the future to deal with ties :-)
bttt
Air France ping for further info.
the names are in the article; I don’t have another link
The A3xx series is one of the safest lines of trans continental equipment available. I’d still take a Boeing any day. There were some early problems with fly-by-wire avionics but those were put to bed for the most part in the late 90s.
One thing a lot of people don’t know, is that the first Space Shuttle landing (after being dropped from a modified 747) almost was destroyed to faulty alogrythms in the flight control system (fly-by-wire) while a bunch of dignitaries and Prince Charles observed from the grand stand. The pilot’s quick adjustments confused the programming in the FCS and nearly caused it to careen out of control on the salt flat runway.
But, as i said, i’ll take a 7x7 any day over an Airbus. The A340 which is a beautiful aircraft has some serious problems with tail strikes. Typical European engineering, elegant, effecient but flawed.
Yes, exactly like Boeing’s 777.
This is indeed the very first A330 incident in commercial service. The only other loss was the quite famous one during flight tests.
So if you lose electrical power, you’re sort of sol?
That sounds kinky.
My thoughts exactly.
The radio this morning said 2 Syrians...did you hear that?
Fly by wire is not less safe. It is usually quad redundant, shielded wires delivering electrical impulses to command hydraulic servoactuators. Very safe with good inspection schedules.
which radio?
The Brazilian Authorities have shared this list:
2 American
1 Argentinian
1 Austrian
1 Belgian
58 Brazilian
5 British
1 Canadian
9 Chinese
1 Croatian
1 Danish
1 Dutch
1 Estonian
1 Filipino
61 French
1 Gambian
26 German
4 Hungarian
3 Irish
1 Icelandic
9 Italian
5 Lebanese
2 Moroccan
3 Norwegians
2 Polish
1 Romanian
1 Russian
3 Slovakian
1 South African
2 Spanish
1 Swedish
6 Swiss
1 Turkish
More info on the original thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262007/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Had to be ABC, here in Michigan we had GM special reports on WJR all day.
no Amish.
So if you lose electrical power, you’re sort of sol?
Not always.
I have no experience with heavy jets. I work fighters.
If you lose electrical power in a single engine fighter, you have backup electrical power from an Emergency Power Unit. When that fails, you still have back up flight control batteries. And you have a fourth source of power, the aircraft battery.
Heavy aircraft have these backups, but also have 2 or 3 or 4 turbofans to generate electricity. They also have the room to carry an APU or Alternate Power Unit to generate electricity to power the flight control surfaces.
Many back ups.
Lebanese, Turkish, and Moroccan passengers on the list. Did any of them have SJS?
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