Posted on 07/06/2013 12:02:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
Currently just Tweets and locals talking about this, nothing on news sites yet. Lots of stuff in the Twitter feed, including links to uploaded videos of the smoking mess.
I missed that. (thank goodness because i have a migraine with nausea and that might have just made me upchuck)
Wonder if this had anything to do with it
Earth’s Pole Has Moved 161 Miles In The Last 6 Months
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3026501/posts
1320 fpm sink rate at 600 ft. AGL on approach? Sounds way high too me...any heavy jet pilots here to fill us in on normal sink rates near landing?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0730Z/RKSI/KSFO/tracklog
No need to imagine - a similar-sized United DC-10 cartwheeled in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989. Video here.
The amazing thing: 185 people survived.
With reports of burn injuries at SF General that would indicate fire on board during the evac so yeah, some probably didn’t make it out. Prayers
Well, I guess I'll have to take your word for it, as I only have 38 years of aviation experience, while you obviously helped Orville do his preflight.
However, your statement that an explosion blew the top off the fuselage, is not only misleading, it's...it's...well...it's wrong, incorrect, stupid, erroneous, mistaken, unreliable, untrue, inaccurate, false, counterfactual, (did I say wrong?) untrustworthy, specious, faulty, unsound, and...and...wrong.
Interesting, too, is that the engine that we see, is possibly the port engine - ie it is *not* the starboard engine.
That is, given that the starboard landing gear was snapped off at the seawall, then the starboard engine became on short notice, a poor substitute ... breaking away from the aircraft and then proceeded on out of the picture. (We have yet to see where one of the engines is!).
Continuing with this possibility ... as the a/c en mess ... continued on down the runway, the a/c (from a top view - our helicopter perspective) spun around counter-clockwise as it entered the dirt ... and actually came to a rest up against the port engine.
Possibly.
Other than the broken, hot oil and of course, fuel, lines, I have no doubt that the engine alongside the fuselage, could be a contributing factor in the fire(s).
I’m glad she has the experience and wasn’t an affirmative action promotion. (as a gal, getting promoted just because someone is a gal over a more qualified non-gal, offends me. i turned down a job due to that in the mid 80’s after college. they needed to fill a “quota” and clearly i was unqualified for the job. i told them so. this was a very large, well known company)
It would have made you sick. Big “hero” the 302K/year leftist is. All puffed up and fake in her astronaut suit.
(mg, I’m sorry about your migraine :(
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer just called the rear pressure bulkhead a “tarp placed on the aircraft”!! Completely clueless as usual!
Found the answer to have my question.
Menzie’s handles Asiana ground at SFO.
I doubt the magnetic pole had anything to do with it. The plane was coming down too fast at a steep 45 degree angle when the tail hit the seawall. Magnetic pole wouldn’t affect altimeter readings that much. Maybe someone didn’t turn off their cellphone when requested. More likely pilot confusion.
Now reporting 60 unaccounted for...
I assure you, I’m no liberal. One of the few conservatives who worked for the city alongside the liberals. There are conservative cops and firemen I worked with, conservatives do exist within the ranks. I hate to see everyone painted with the same broad brush by non-thinking idiots, something that we accuse liberals of doing. Now grow up.
“wouldn’t affect altimeter readings that much”
unless it was off by a few feet or maybe all of the instrumentation is off “a little”
However, your statement that an explosion blew the top off the fuselage, is not only misleading, it's...it's...well...it's wrong, incorrect, stupid, erroneous, mistaken, unreliable, untrue, inaccurate, false, counterfactual, (did I say wrong?) untrustworthy, specious, faulty, unsound, and...and...wrong.
picture showing on KTVU taken by someone’s dad who got off the plane shows cabin burning, flame visible through the over-wing windows, firemen foaming the forward cabin, black smoke from the midsection.
I hope those evacuees with their luggage did not prevent others from making it out. That is pretty bad karma for them.
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