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03-22-2022, 12:10 PM #1
Wtf is up with this Chinese air crash?
Does this ever happen? Just straight down from cruising altitude? Suicide by pilot?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/202...ripley-vpx.cnn
I saw it represented as a graph somewhere, taken from tracking data, I guess, and it's bizarre. Just, straight down.
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03-22-2022, 12:20 PM #2
No bodies no crash Benny.
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03-22-2022, 12:23 PM #3?
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03-22-2022, 12:26 PM #4
and you "know" that how?
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03-22-2022, 12:26 PM #5
Saw something on the interwebz that the vertical stabilizer detached. I mean, it was on FB so who knows? I've read several accounts from US instructors that say that the Asian airlines are so focused on fuel savings that they basically turn on the auto-pilot from take off to landing. They don't train them to fly the planes, only to engage the auto-pilot.
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03-22-2022, 12:28 PM #6Registered User
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What's the g-forces when you drop 20,000 feet in one minute? I hope/presume they all passed out wayyyyyyyy before impact. Otherwise it would be a painfully terrifying way to die.
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03-22-2022, 12:40 PM #7
https://youtu.be/pSlG_m-bbGM
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03-22-2022, 12:42 PM #8
Was the pilot Sum-Ting Wong?
In order to properly convert this thread to a polyasshat thread to more fully enrage the liberal left frequenting here...... (insert latest democratic blunder of your choice).
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03-22-2022, 12:49 PM #9
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03-22-2022, 12:55 PM #10
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03-22-2022, 12:59 PM #11
Well, ok, that's what I was thinking. I don't fly, but, wouldn't it take human control for that to happen? I mean, a plane, left on its own, dropping from altitude, would try to glide, right? At least a little?
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03-22-2022, 01:08 PM #12
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03-22-2022, 01:10 PM #13
g forces only exist as a function of speed and directional changes. There's no significant g felt in a steady state dive (not saying this was necessarily that - most of the facts are not out yet)
Plus, the 20000ft number isn't really correct. Just flying level at what would be a normal cruising speed for that aircraft would be between 40000 and about 48000 feet per minute.
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03-22-2022, 01:12 PM #14
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03-22-2022, 01:12 PM #15
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03-22-2022, 01:13 PM #16
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03-22-2022, 01:14 PM #17
This smells like a pilot suicide to me.
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03-22-2022, 01:15 PM #18
The autopilot doesn't "try" anything, because it isn't smart. It just does what it's told.
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03-22-2022, 01:15 PM #19
Like a stone.
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03-22-2022, 01:17 PM #20
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03-22-2022, 01:21 PM #21
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03-22-2022, 01:24 PM #22Registered User
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03-22-2022, 01:25 PM #23
Recall your HS physics… they were super awake and super terrified. Horrible.
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