[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!"?

[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]

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 ...

[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)

[VOA]

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[BJungNan]

You know what is REALLY STUPID. That these morons in charge of these investigations have to guess what happened. Walk into any convenience store or a gazillion other mom and pop shops and you can see exactly WHAT HAPPENED at any moment of any day. It is called a CAMERA!!!!!!

HELLO! McFly!!!

Could you imagine Shop & Go having to anaylize data from black box and having only a "thud" to go on in tracking down who held up the store. Gee, was that thud the door closing, the perp pounding his fist on the counter or the bulk head failing.

[Asmodeus]

Taiwan coast guard inspect the China Airlines flight 611 cockpit recovered from the Taiwan Strait, Sunday, June 23, 2002, on the outlying Taiwan island of Penghu.