Missing Air France Jet over the Atlantic ...

[wlawr005]

WARNING: Speculation

If there was a rapid decompression, they could have lost cabin integrity and broken apart due to turbulence/hail/bomb, who knows. Whatever it was, it was quick since the pilots didn't have time to talk. I don't think that the whole plane hit the water at the same time.

Interesting part is the automatic flight computer communication with Air France maintenance. First of all, that's cool shit. Second, I wonder if the problems were severe enough to cause the mishap.

 

[Ken_gone_flying]

Article says that salvage teams are not optimistic about finding black box. Waters near the suspected crash site are mountainous and 21,000 feet deep.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/03/france.plane.memorial/index.html

 

[MIDNJAC]

Time to dust off Alvin...

 

[A4sForever]

....Normally, if a thunderstorm is severe, it usually tops above cruise altitude, so you wouldn't normally find yourself "above one."....

Roger that; and true in most cases -- unless it's at night out over the tropical PAC/LANT and you're topping/penetrating a line/system 'cause you have to in order to get from "A" to "B" ... then standby if you're not doing EVERYTHING right. Be a radar 'champ' ...

Been there ... these are very modest examples of what I'm talkin' about ... don't have any pix of the really 'bad ones' ...

photos by A4sForever

 

[Ken_gone_flying]

^^^What kind of plane are you in there?

 

[Brett327]

^^^What kind of plane are you in there?

Newbie.

Brett

 

[A4sForever]

^^^What kind of plane are you in there?

A hint ... this 'kine ...

photo by A4sForever

 

[jollygreen07]

747-400?

 

[A4sForever]

UPDATE:

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Air France jet likely broke apart above ocean[/FONT] (AP)

 

[subTidal]

Update: "Debris found in ocean not from missing Air France plane":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/air-france-crash-debris-atlantic

 

[ChuckMK23]

Excellent analysis and reasoned speculation

See link for a great analysis and informed speculation on this mishap...

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/

 

[armada1651]

See link for a great analysis and informed speculation on this mishap...

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/

That was very impressive.

 

[Birdog8585]

See link for a great analysis and informed speculation on this mishap...

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/

That was some serious effort on that guy's part - nicely done.

 

[Schnugg]

I think time of useful consciousness is 30-60 seconds at 35,000...

edit: cut that in half for a rapid-D

TUC at 37K feet is about 17 seconds.

How do I know that fact???...VF squadron hypoxia induced mishap when I was a JO...came out of the MIR.

 

[Ken_gone_flying]

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/gene... Data Suggests Faulty Speed Data&channel=comm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/05/unsolved.plane.crashes/index.html

Some lucky people here...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_re_eu/eu_brazil_would_be_passengers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/06/brazil.plane.crash/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/08/brazil.plane.crash/index.html