Posted on 12/30/2014 12:29:43 AM PST by tcrlaf
Indonesian rescue teams said Tuesday that they had found bodies and what appeared to be debris from the AirAsia plane that vanished shortly after taking off from the airport here on Sunday.
Members of search teams told the Indonesian news media that they had spotted what appeared to be suitcases, life vests and aircraft debris. Indonesian television showed a rescuer descending from a helicopter toward a bloated corpse floating in the sea.
The debris was found in the Karimata Strait off the coast of Borneo. Search teams also spotted what appeared to be a larger piece of the fuselage of the plane, which was operated by the Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Don’t the pitot tube thingys have heating elements on them?
Hmmm...the dichotomy between 2 alleged ‘at-sea’ losses of aircraft (I am, of course, referencing MH370 and the lack of debris)...
AOA probes are used in all phases of flight in fly by wire aircraft.
FWIW I have 15 years flying A320 series. 15 years in Boeing, and 3 years in Douglas aircraft.
All external gauges are heated to prevent icing, no?
from your news update link:
“8 more bodies spotted, 4 of them are holding hands”
Heartbreaking...
Not in the context you were espousing. AOA is an indicator for max cruise or L/D Max but not when you are deciding whether or not to fly through a boomer. My CO directed our squadron to fly through some thunder heads and caught hell from the Group CO when two birds came back with hail damage. The PIC made a fatal mistake in not diverting around the storm. AOA played no part in that decision.
If I remember correctly, just before the AirAsia plane crashed, a Lion Air airliner flying almost the same route was forced to return to its originating airport when the flight crew found it too difficult to fly the plane in the massive thunderstorms over the Java Sea.
Regarding the A320 and short of grounding them, training will have to be modified to engage deeper into flying MANUALLY, relying less on ‘auto’ this and that. The A320’s history is discouraging to would-be passengers now.
Impressive. Several pilots I flew with in the Corps are all heavy drivers now. My folks used to build Boeing, MD, Northrup and Lockheed.
Java for graphics and entertainment systems - yes. For mission critical s/w - no. Go with Ada or MISRA C. (But you probably already knew that CodeToad :-) ).
Fascinating mini-discussion of programming languages and techniques used for avionics programming and their rationals:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Which-is-Major-Programming-language-141158.S.93712052
- Airbus has a carbon fibrr rudder assembly
- Carbon Fiber vertical tail surfaces have a modulus of elasticity like Michael Jordon described Barack Hussein Obama Junior’s gold game : SHI-TY
- One quick movement and the piece of crap snaps
- See Sept 2011 crash in NY
- There is no logical reason that a simple “breakaway” locator cannot be fitted tp commercial airline aircraft
- But what do I know?
Now it's really heavy into Java. The Java Sea, that is.
“Now it’s really heavy into Java. The Java Sea, that is.”
lol. Nice. Sad, but you really can’t tell the French anything.
Anything but an undeterministic and managed language.
Yes, now the families know and will be able to have services ad bury their family members. Hopefully all will be recovered.
Interesting. Thank you.
I’m still remembering that Airbus that broke its own vertical stabilizer off trying to leave Long Island a few years ago. That’s just poorass/weakass/halfassed design that shouldn’t be allowed in the real world.
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