[rabscuttle385]

[rabscuttle385]

ping!

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Who Knows?

[rockinqsranch]

More speculation.

Seems there was a bomb threat late May. The 27th I believe. The characteristics of this fall in line with multiple scenarios, including a bomb going off.

As nobody apparently has made claim to responsibility for a bombing, it is another possibility isn’t it.

[babygene]

No...

[eyedigress]

moments before the plane is believed to have plunged into the ocean, its autopilot became disengaged and the plane sustained damage to its stabilizing controls and flight systems, as well as a failure of the systems that were monitoring the aircraft's speed, altitude and direction: the ADIRU (Air Data Inertial Reference Units) and the ISIS (Integrated Standby Instruments System)

These folks went through hell. Protect them Lord

[zipper]

...key components in fly-by-wire systems, which use computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight.

The A330 has no hydraulic servos to power the control surfaces?

I guess they'd better tell Airbus to rewrite the flight manual!!!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10016906/a330hydraulic

[GOP_1900AD]

Ordnance with shaped directional charge (to blow out hole(s) through fuselage) triggered by an op amp with an accelerometer driving the inputs. Turbulence going through the ITCZ is as reliable as clock work. And that’s all she wrote.

[mbs6]

I’m not sure of the cause of the crash, but I am a computer scientist. I remember when I was in school and we studied some cases where software glitches/bugs led to the deaths of people. As a horrific example, read: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Therac_25/Therac_1.html

It was extremely sobering for me to realize that software I write could be operating in a system where lives literally hung in the balance. As a professional now, I’ve decided to not be involved in such systems. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night hoping my software was good enough for such systems. We also discussed in school how it is best to avoid such systems. In terms of safety, it is better design to have physical, fail-safe redundancy to prevent loss of life in the case of software or computer hardware failure.

[Pelham]

Windows strikes again.

[Eye of Unk]

I wonder if a new non-explosive bomb has been tested successfully so to speak, a new compact EMP bomb that will destroy an aircraft from the inside by rendering its systems inoperable.

[ltc8k6]

AF447 had completely different ADIRU’s than those in the QANTAS planes. Different units and and different software.

The faulty ADIRU’s were made by Litton.

AF447 used Honeywell ADIRU’s.

[Paradox]