Must have been one of those lighting strikes that blows up airliners...
Random exploding aircraft... Even less bad than man caused disaster...
What a crock.
:Massive depressurization...” just another way of saying having the holy crap blown out of you. We are so afraid to consider the possiblity of terrorism that we allow ourselves to be lulled to sleep.
Islamic bombs will cause that to happen.
Spontaneous depressurisation?
Victims of the Lockerbie crash, were found still strapped in their seats.
Some were clutching crosses.
Pure BS, Anyone that has been through a high altitude chamber , has been exposed to a instant decompression. Mostly from around 20-25 thousand feet.(In the NASA chambers, available to private pilots through the FAA) Military chambers routinely decompress from 30-35 Thousand feet.
Although you only have less then a min (usually 30 sec)to get oxygen before passing out, you are well aware of blowing all the snot out of your head (Sorry to be so graphic , but that's the truth
From the looks of the weather charts they flew into a thunderstorm which is sure disaster!
Now I think this was a test of some new method of getting a bomb aboard by the terrorists. Now that it has proven to be a success for them, they can proceed with plans for the main, bigger plot.
An analysis and thread responses by those with expertise in the field courtesy of Texas Booster on a previous thread:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/
Well worth the read.
DUH
Aliens did it.
There is NOTHING to see here move along. No, the 6 muslims arrested with bomb-making equipment were not terrorists. The radiation leak from the nuclear plant is harmless. Muslims do not discriminate against women. Nothing to see here. Move along!
The guy in the story is giving a line of BS -or- he’s just repeating what he heard someone else say...having trained in high-altitude chambers I can tell you that although one would fall unconscious rather quickly (most folks within 15-30 seconds) you do not instantly fall unconscious between 30,000 - 40,000 ft. Unless the high speed aerodynamic stresses got to them first they almost certainly knew what happened...if only for a short period of time.
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.
they just reported this on the ABC nightly news
A broken up plane de-pressurizes.