Posted on 03/19/2014 8:22:10 PM PDT by rdl6989
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced objects possibly related to the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been found in the southern Indian Ocean.
Thanks for the information.
I’m seeing honeycomb panels starting at 2-3 lb/ft^3 on that site... that certainly floats.
Thanks. Didn’t know what to look under
Pass the banana bread, choco milk already ready, lol!
O.K. I didn’t scan it all.
in NC it’s 03:00 here, eyes going sleepy but I want to know if MH370 has been found.
Yep, it would be floating
7.48 gal in 1 cu ft x 8.34 lbs @ gal - 62.38 lbs
sat photos finally released: https://twitter.com/ErrolCNN/status/446542045222404096/photo/1
!Who’s got banana bread and choc moo!?
All I got was lousy packaged cookies and ginger ale!
I see nothing!
Thank You!
Thank you.
!Who’s got banana bread and choc moo!?
All I got was lousy packaged cookies and ginger ale!
If they were running a checklist trying to get some event back under control, it is conceivable they unplugged certain specific systems. If they were disabled during the time they were working through the checklist, this could explain specific systems left offline, and other systems left online.
Perhaps a 777 pilot could comment here, but it would seem the throttle, control surfaces, and flight management computer would be the last things they’d take off line —— like end of the list. It’s hard to fly and work a problem simultaneously, even when you are trained to the hilt for the situation. If the control surfaces and engines seems to be running, why unplug them unless it’s the last thing on the list?
And then there is the randomness of electrical fires. Many times some circuits get destroyed unexpectedly, and then certain other circuits continue soldiering on. There are a lot of factors related to this... inconceivable to me, who has no experience in a cockpit or simulator or flight school, whatsoever, in a plane, as to what kind of interactions crop up. However, I do understand systemology on an instinctive level... the idea that faults in systems apparently unrelated can sum to having a unexpected emergent behavior. It happens all the time in complex software systems interacting with complex hardware.
This is also the reason that just about every system on a aircraft has a circuit breaker a pilot can flip in an emergency. They may be deep or shallow in a checklist, but there has to be a knob to control every device which can generate or dissipate or transmit electric power, because one specific apparently unrelated & minor system could be causing a problem with a very important system or function in ways not apparent to anyone but the engineers who designed the aircraft. Maybe even beyond their understanding as well, which is how flaws in a system are sometimes discovered several years after a system has been in real word use.
Ah, fellow NCian. Yes, time for bed... I do have to work and be functional tomorrow, darn it. Or I would risk the brain cells and stay up all night on this :)
Have a good night!
And thank you. HM had the banana bread. I only had choco milk.
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