Posted on 06/03/2009 10:30:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The vast area over which debris has been found suggested there was an explosion while the aircraft was in flight.
Unnamed experts quoted by the Le Monde newspaper said the "wide dispersion of wreckage discovered suggests that the Airbus (A330-200) exploded at high altitude".
Terrorism has not been ruled out but they said the most likely scenario was that the break-up was caused by massive depressurisation inside the plane.
If such depressurisation had occurred at high altitude, passengers would have almost certainly fallen instantly unconscious and may have been unaware of the their fate.
Professor Philippe Juvin, head of casualty at Beaujon hospital west of Paris, said: "It would have been as quick as the moment when one falls asleep."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Boortz thinks it was flying through a cell, but do cells tear apart planes?
No.
Boortz is an idiot and the last person to look to when discussing grown folks issues.
Let me get this straight. There is more pressure inside a plane than outside at high altitudes. Sudden depressurization would not cause a plane to explode, maybe implode, but to do that it would have to have a huge hole in it and the air would have to go out instantaneously and even then an implosion is unlikely. The depressurization they are talking about would be the results of an explosion not the cause of one. I guess they think the whole world is made up of idiots.
I’m sorry but this plane did not come down as a result of a bomb.
Some of the information coming out about the ACARS message exchange with AF maintenance center seems similar to those given by a Qantas Airbus in December.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_2_23/ai_n31189475/
I think we have a design/computer error that led to this aircraft’s autopilot disengaging and the pilots losing control (especially considering the time and atmospheric circumstances).
Also from the article:
“On Oct. 7, 2008, 70 of the 313 people onboard a Qantas A330 (also flying from Singapore to Perth) were injured when the aircraft pitched up and then dove twice after a failure of its ADIRU 1.
Australian air safety investigators said a fault in one of three Northrop Grumman air data inertial reference units is likely to have caused the Qantas A330-300 upset.
Flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth abruptly lost altitude. The A330 made an emergency landing in Manila. The ATSB said in its preliminary report, citing flight data recorder information, that the ADIRU likely fed incorrect information to the main flight computer.”
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Uhm, we have a problem.
I was about ready to refute the “fallen instantly unconscious” part until I read your post.
I’ve been through the pressure chamber many times in my Navy career and have yet to pass out during rapid decompression.
As you said, Pure BS.
they just reported this on the ABC nightly news
Party balloons have similar pressure differentials to an airliner at altitude. If punctured or ruptured they explode. Light bulbs and vacuum tubes have the opposite differential; more pressure outside than inside and they implode.
A broken up plane de-pressurizes.
In this case it looks like the plane was shaved by Occam's razor.
I don’t think the Shoe Bomber cared if anyone knew it was terrorism. Sudden Jihad Syndrome is a lonely affair.
When was the last bomb threat against an airline in the U.S.?
“As for me, I could see that sort of spread taking place as a result of the fact that the plane was at 35k feet, in a line of severe thunderstorms.”
Thank you both for your posts!
Those huge thunderstorms topped 50k feet.
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/
No, Bad wiring is easily enough to blow a plane apart and spread wreckage over 3 miles.
Can’t be a terrorist bomb now that we have obozo.
PRay for America and Our Troops
Uh, debris was spread over 140 miles ...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iOegnahAFcEgwJZ4WKGkVz9Dgq5wD98JG00G0
Furthermore, supposedly tropical storm in that region are notorious. They reach up to 55K whereas the plane was at 33K.
Dress rehersal?
It crossed paths with the magic bullet shot from a high powered rifle in Dallas in 1963.
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