Flight 587's final seconds

CNN ^ | 11/15/2001 | CNN

[Lion's Cub]

Indexing

[DugwayDuke]

"I don't buy yuor Illuminati theory, way too complicated."

Then your obviously a "government shill", probably hired by Janet Reno to TAKE AWAY ALL OUR GUNS.

I do hope you realize the "Illuminati theory" was satire and, like all conspiracy theories, it must be horribly complicated.

[MississippiMan]

Thanks for the refresher on which flight that was. Yes, that was one heckuva job of flying. I was doing quite a bit of flying as a private pilot back then and remember being amazed. I still am.

MM

[spunkets]

The composite is carbon fiber reinforced. That's why it's black.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm not familiar with those accidents as I'm not in the aviation field.

Just a rudimentary knowledge from some basic aeronautics classes, being an Air Force Brat, and some liquid flow knowledge from Sonar School,

[longshadow]

There was a Japanese 747, maybe 20 years ago or thereabouts, that somehow lost the vertical stabilizer. (Collision with another plane? I don't remember.)

Let me refresh your memory.

The plane experienced a catastrophic failure of the rear pressure bulkhead, which damaged hydraulic and other control lines to the elevators/rudder. I do not believe the plane lost it's vertical stabilizer; they only lost the ability to control the plane.

You are correct that they kept it in the air for a substantial period of time, this was acheived by changing power settings to compensate for aerodynamic forces acting on the plane.

[Tony in Hawaii]

I'm truly amazed at the people here on Free Republic who think an airplane's vertical stabilizer is only there for decoration.