God bless the people who have to clean up that mess...
Looks like a motor in the lower center of the pic...
And to add a little levity to a very sad deal........ That might not buff out......
you want it to maybe be: Gott ist groß
Appears to be post-impact fire, or at least some kind of fire sort of eliminating a lack of fuel. That was a horrible impact.
With that kind of energy, it might be a test of the FDR and CVR. I know those things are tough, but we'll see if they are that tough. I presume they are near the tail, so some of the energy will be dissipated by the time it comes to the mountain, so that helps but gosh, that was a Big Bang.
Sorry guys.
Looks like that picture is from a 2007 accident:
Yeah, my sources apparently failed me.
Typical news hysteria....I think we need to let the dust settle before any truth can be sorted out.
Almost 400 kts into the side of a mountain.
I was just doing my back of the envelope math and came up with around 110G. But I guessed on a few numbers. That's assuming a straight on angle, and that doesn't look like a bad guess.That would mean the boxes in the tail took around 130 g right? Figure they had 120 some feet to decelerate in. They may have made it.
I was just doing my back of the envelope math and came up with around 110G. But I guessed on a few numbers. That's assuming a straight on angle, and that doesn't look like a bad guess.
According to Wiki, they are supposed to survive 3400 G:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder
It also assumes a linear deceleration along the length of the airplane, which might be a decent *guess* but in the end will be far from correct.I was just doing my back of the envelope math and came up with around 110G. But I guessed on a few numbers. That's assuming a straight on angle, and that doesn't look like a bad guess.
It also assumes a linear deceleration along the length of the airplane, which might be a decent *guess* but in the end will be far from correct.
Nauga,
who knows it was what it was
True, but it's the best guess I can really make. I know a couple of engineers that would likely be able to fill a page with calculations and get it right, but not me. That's why I keep their phone numbers. I call with my math dillemas and they call me with their girl dilemmas.
So...
Who wins the "Captain Obvious" award in this thread thus far. I believe the overwhelming winner to be Henning (hey...a man's gotta get to 50k posts somehow) but I'm open to other nominations!
Jeez...didn't see any pieces bigger than about 3-4 feet. I'm glad that was fuzzy video, I suspect the HD version shows stuff I just don't need to see.
Open the sunroof on your modern aerodynamic car, if you have a real time fuel mileage display, you can watch it drop a couple miles a gallon. The thing is, the decompression event is typically caused by a structural failure that handicaps other things as well. Sometimes it remains manageable like the 737 in Hawaii, sometimes it doesn't. Many variables in these things.
Thats very true, but do you really think decompression could have caused something like this? Too soon to know of course, Very sad to hear
I was just listening to two talk radio commentators who were talking about the crash. Sean Hannity and Tom Sullivan. Tom Sullivan sounded rational mostly but Hannity was a complete, clueless, ignorant moron on the subject. I had to turn him off. I was starting to get angry.
Not likely to see anything recognizable.
The German online newspaper Spiegel is reporting that the accident aircraft spent hours on the ground in Düsseldorf yesterday with a problem with the nose landing gear door. And after the accident several Germanwings and LH Airbus crews have today refused their flight assignments.
He's an angry person in general, and it rubs off. People seem to like being angry, that's why they watch him. I can't stand to hear him speak on anything, but he gets good ratings.
A buddy of mine was in a band when we were in college. His motto then reminds me of so many talking heads on the TV and radio now, "If you can't be good, at least be loud!"
The German online newspaper Spiegel is reporting that the accident aircraft spent hours on the ground in Düsseldorf yesterday with a problem with the nose landing gear door. And after the accident several Germanwings and LH Airbus crews have today refused their flight assignments.
Clicking around that site, it also seems that 16 teen-aged kids and two teachers, all from the same town, died on the flight. Very sad...
(I say "seems" because German's not one of my stronger languages. But I'm pretty sure that's the gist of it.)
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/germanwings-airbus-trauer-nach-absturz-in-frankreich-a-1025386.html
Rich
No, he's not angry. He sells anger...just like Rush and BillO. Keeping the minions angry keeps them united. Gotta have a boogie man when you have nothing else.
Clicking around that site, it also seems that 16 teen-aged kids and two teachers, all from the same town, died on the flight. Very sad...
(I say "seems" because German's not one of my stronger languages. But I'm pretty sure that's the gist of it.)
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/germanwings-airbus-trauer-nach-absturz-in-frankreich-a-1025386.html
Rich
No, he's not angry. He sells anger...just like Rush and BillO. Keeping the minions angry keeps them united. Gotta have a boogie man when you have nothing else.
No, he's not angry. He sells anger...just like Rush and BillO. Keeping the minions angry keeps them united. Gotta have a boogie man when you have nothing else.
You mean like the 1%ers? The religious right? The "teabaggers"? The people who "cling to their guns and religion"? Those boogie men?
A320 Down=Right Wing bashing