China Airlines Crash Remains Mystery - "Last Noise On CVR Was Sharp 'Thud' Before Power Went Off"

Associated Press ^ | 23 June 2002 | ANNIE HUANG

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Maybe a pressure bulkhead failure.

[Lazamataz]

the black box also recorded a noise that sounded like "ka ta, ka ta, ka ta,"

What is the Chinese word for "Oh s**t!"?

[dighton]

Maybe a pressure bulkhead failure.

As you probably know, that caused the crash of JAL 123: the worst single-airplane disaster in history. It would be interesting to note similarities and differences.

JAL 123 CVR transcript.

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WARNING -- horrific:
JAL 123 CVR, actual recording, last 56 seconds.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Shortly before the crash, the black box also recorded a noise that sounded like "ka ta, ka ta, ka ta

Ticking?

[_Jim]

Maybe a pressure bulkhead failure.

Or a forward cargo-bay door as on UAL 811 ...

[_Jim]

Woodpecker related Scaler Weapon?

Geez ...I'll bet you can't explain the principles of what 'verbage' it is you scribbled above ...

Son, have you ever even HEARD the Russian 'woodpecker'?

[_Jim]

It will be telling if a particular set of seat rows on the starboard side are missing just those seats nearest the outer skin of the aircraft - in the area just slightly forward of the starboard wing ...

[_Jim]

Minutes before the Boeing 747-200 went down, the cockpit voice recorder picked up a noise that sounded like a human heart beat. ... the black box also recorded a noise that sounded like "ka ta, ka ta, ka ta,"

Depending on the rate at which this sound was made - the aircraft could have been violently porpoising up and down or yawing back and forth (due to whatever reason) - just before total airframe failure and the recorder was cut off ...

[_Jim]

Ticking?

I think it would be safe to say that 'ticking' from some sort of timing device would been drowned-out by general wind, fan and aircraft noises ...

[Registered]

You'd think the HTML auto-detect was broken...

[Registered]

Taiwan investigators said June 23, 2002 they heard a series of unidentified sounds in the cockpit recordings of a China Airlines jet that mysteriously broke up in mid-air and crashed into the sea last month, killing 225 people. A Taiwan Aviation investigator reveals one of the black boxes in Taipei on June 19 that was recovered from the Boeing 747-200 jet which broke up in mid-air and crashed into the sea on May 25. (Kenny Wu/Reuters)

[John Robinson]

There was an HTML bold embedded in that comment. One little piece of HTML and paragraphs are NOT made. (There is a very good reason for this.)

[Common Tator]

You'd think the HTML auto-detect was broken...

It had a line with HTML bold tags. That will do it every time.

[VOA]

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