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To: Tzfat
Helios flew for a very long time after the event.

I was going to chime in and mention that. But since you did, as an Airbus pilot perhaps you may be able to comment on something else that seems odd about this Germanwings incident - there is something about the debris field of this crash that seems unusual - either not big enough, or too large. Couldn't really identify a source of impact either, or any significant charring/scorching. Could you comment on that?

145 posted on 03/24/2015 1:26:41 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: no-s

Some pictures appear to show scorching. It is hard to tell. If there is scorching, the impact site is the debris field, or very near by. If the aircraft disintegrated at altitude, the fuel would have vaporized.

In the US Airways 427 crash 21 years ago, the aircraft rolled over and impacted nearly vertically (80 degrees!) from about 6,000 feet. The impact speed was over 300 knots. The debris field was in hilly terrain, and was confined to just several hundred feet in a single ravine. There was smoke, but if I remember correctly there was not much, if any, scorching. I was a B737 pilot at the time and I knew the first officer, so I took particular interest.


151 posted on 03/24/2015 1:48:08 PM PDT by Tzfat
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