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06-01-2009, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul  What would you do in the last 90 seconds of your life inside the airplane? | Bitch and moan about how it had to be this plane.
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06-01-2009, 01:32 PM
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#27 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by Soundy Flight Data Recorder/Cockpit Data Recorder | ah I see
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06-01-2009, 02:14 PM
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Tragic..
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06-01-2009, 02:23 PM
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#29 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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so they can't predict wut kind of weather the plane is gonna go thru before lift off?
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06-01-2009, 02:38 PM
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#30 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Read about this in the morning. What a tragic incident, RIP to those on board.
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06-01-2009, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 so they can't predict wut kind of weather the plane is gonna go thru before lift off? | They route their flightplans according to weather reports but when you're flying over stormy weather, anything can happen.
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06-01-2009, 02:55 PM
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#32 | | I don't get it
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This is so sad. I hope they can atleast find some evidence of the crash. RIP
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06-01-2009, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 so they can't predict wut kind of weather the plane is gonna go thru before lift off? | Yes, however it's not quite that simple. If there is a crasy weather system that can be avoided, the flight planners will route the plane in a different direction, and the airplane also has weather radar to avoid really nasty cells within a weather system if they need to go through it.
Since the weather systems in the south atlantic are so massive that they stretch across the entire eastern coast of the continent, airliners pretty have have to fly into the soup and use the wx radar to avoid the nasty cells. However, if the weather radar fails while the plane is IMC (ifr conditions) then it can only follow it's IFR instruments which do not see weather.
ATC Radar does not extend that far off the coast, so no one can vector them around weather either.
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06-01-2009, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Soundy Probably would have been a lot longer than that, chances are the pilots would have tried everything they could to bring it down slowly, give themselves time to restore power, and ultimately to attempt to ditch as gently as possible so the passengers could evacuate. Big jets DO have some glide capability, so it's possible they had a good 5-10 minutes before hitting the water. | Possibly... but we would never know. If they actually lost all power and electricals, then I guess they wouldn't have been able to do anything to go down slower...
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06-01-2009, 03:55 PM
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^Still would have had the RAT at least.
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06-01-2009, 04:09 PM
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no survivors?
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06-01-2009, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Anurag no survivors? | Read the thread
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06-01-2009, 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Nintensity Read the thread | RIP to those who were on board, and yes i did read the thread, it said nobody was expected to survive, but out of 228 people, I was thinking that maybe some people survived the severe crash
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06-01-2009, 06:02 PM
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#39 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Originally Posted by Anurag and yes i did read the thread, |
no you didn't....
b/c if you did, you'd have read that they are still searching for the plane
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06-01-2009, 07:00 PM
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#40 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Hoping for the best for the passengers and aircrew,
Reminds me of one of those episodes on Mayday on discovery channel
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06-01-2009, 07:32 PM
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#41 | | All Day, Err Day Mod
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There was one canadian on the plane!
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06-01-2009, 07:55 PM
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#42 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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No way would anyone have survived. The plane was 35,000ft and most likely broke up into pieces before well before hitting the water. Hopefully they can recover the blackbox but the toughest thing right now is locating the wreckage.
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06-01-2009, 08:07 PM
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#43 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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***Breaking news***
Reports in that they crashed and landed on an island with monsters and polar bears. Apparently the crash was due to an unexplained magnetic force.
Apparently there are 6 survivors and they are now known as the "Oceanic 6".
Wait a minute that happened on TV
*** End Breaking news ***
On a sad note. RIP and condolences to all the friends and families
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06-01-2009, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by sh0n ***Breaking news***
Reports in that they crashed and landed on an island with monsters and polar bears. Apparently the crash was due to an unexplained magnetic force.
Apparently there are 6 survivors and they are now known as the "Oceanic 6".
Wait a minute that happened on TV
*** End Breaking news ***
On a sad note. RIP and condolences to all the friends and families | wtf
shitty way to die
rip
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06-01-2009, 08:29 PM
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#45 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Originally Posted by sh0n ***Breaking news***
Reports in that they crashed and landed on an island with monsters and polar bears. Apparently the crash was due to an unexplained magnetic force.
Apparently there are 6 survivors and they are now known as the "Oceanic 6".
Wait a minute that happened on TV
*** End Breaking news ***
On a sad note. RIP and condolences to all the friends and families | yea wtf?
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06-01-2009, 09:18 PM
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#46 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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that is out dated information. The new ELT frequency is 406MHz. It was changed last year. Quote:
Originally Posted by Timpo
also from my understanding, aircrafts are lightening proof, it could damage some electricals, but that's only for few seconds...
if they can find a black box I guess NTSB can find what went wrong.
| Planes are not lightning proof. Planes are designed to withstand a direct lightning strikes of certain proportion. Usually there will be an entry and exit. There are times where there would be an entry strike, and no exit strike (lighting strike inspections are done, after a plane has been know to have been hit). If the lightning strike has enough power, it can/may do damage to the aircraft electrical systems. Most avionics on the airplane are very very sensitive, and easily damaged by static, let alone lightning.
Most major components (and composite panels) are grounded. Ground wire varies depending on what the component is. During maintenance, where a component should be grounded, a bonding check is done to determine if the component is bonded to within design limits.
In this situation, the airbus is all fly-by-wire, and a direct hit to it's flight control systems, the surge in electricity could fry a flight control system(such as a power control unit), or engine control system. Even with a deployment of a RAT, the system could have been fatally damaged by the strike and become U/S.
Reports on the news says that the plane was flying in an area know for sever thunderstorms. With a large enough strike, there might have not been enough bonding to handle the large amount of current going through.
Also I don't think NTSB will be leading the investigation. Most likely it would be the Brazilian government or EASA(since its a European built aircraft, and European carrier). .
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06-01-2009, 10:39 PM
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RIP.
I hope this doesn't happen to me when i fly in August.
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06-01-2009, 11:28 PM
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oh god
scary missing plane
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06-01-2009, 11:35 PM
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#49 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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It could have been lighting, serve icing, serve turbulence...know one really knows until they recover the black box.
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06-01-2009, 11:43 PM
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#50 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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somone forgot to enter the numbers at the hatch
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