I just wonder whether the pilot had dark eyes, like the majority of the people in that part of the world... We all know dark-eyed people are dodgy !
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I just wonder whether the pilot had dark eyes, like the majority of the people in that part of the world... We all know dark-eyed people are dodgy !
CEO of AirAsia is Tony Fernandes is he still a F1 team owner
That's sounds slanderous insinuating all people with dark eyes are dodgy ,but then again your a mine of information donkey!
Yeah well most Muslim pilots have dark eyes... Let's pray this one didn't !
He was owner of Caterham and still owns Caterham Cars I think...Quote:
Originally Posted by driveace
Launched AirAsia India from my city just last week-end too :s
looks like they at least found this plane
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/30/wo...html?hpt=hp_t1
what they don't tell you is that when the pitot tubes freeze the computer takes over and stalls the airplane. They blamed the pilot for this in the Air France crash. They are trying to tell you that the pilot has final say so and this is not true. Hence the old saying "if it ain't a Boeing I ain't going" Boeing planes allow the pilot the final say so. You Euros will probably say I am full of sh!t but Airbus is a roach !!! You can't convince me that the pilots are so dumb they can't fly the artificial horizon. If you freeze the pitot tube the computer will lower the nose which is why the Air France pilot had the joystick pulled back. They will find the black boxes with this crash but do you really think they will tell the truth??
Your talking a lot of sense there Roamy
Isn't Boeing something like a typical American car with everything automated and the pilot's role reduced to pointing the thing in the right direction?Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
No Rudy that is the AirbusQuote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
For clarity, it’s the pitot tube heater that may fail. The pitot tube itself is a static instrument with nothing more than a pressure transducer that measures the difference between the static and dynamic pressure. This difference is used to calculate relative velocity (which is why F1 cars use pitot tubes to calculate the car’s speed).
Because the pitot tube sticks out in the airstream it’s subject to icing, similar to the leading edges of wings, which is why an internal heater is used. I know on many smaller airplanes the pilot must manually engage the heater when icing may occur. I don’t know if this is an automated function on large commercial airplanes though.
Sorry, a bit OCD, I know :mark: .
Yes, let's be intellectually lazy and make sweeping generalizations about stuff. That certainly aids the discussion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
The Kazakhstan theory has re - emerged.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/66...sts-new-theory
So Putin did it.
Why?
The article calls this theory fanciful, I call it silly unless he can provide an answer to why. Sounds like trying to cash in on the controversy by writing a book.
lets have a poll - how many think it is in the Indian ocean?
I don't think it's in the Indian Ocean Roamy !
But bad news again today with the Airbus A 320 of German Airlines ,has crashed in the French Alps killing 150 passengers including staff
Another very sad day in Aviation
Lufthansa! (although its low cost wing) but a huge loss of life again :(
It's a 28 year old Airbus .The last A320 was the Air Asia plane that dropped into the sea in Asia with all loss of life .
Is there a problem with a) Airbus A320
B) old planes,or what is going on ?
It well my be neither. Two different causes that has nothing to do with the model or the age of the planes. This is the first plane crash of an airline I've flown with. Even though it happened a few years back the news left me speechless.
There are one heck of a lot of A320s flying. To have two go down is actually a pretty small percentage.Quote:
Originally Posted by driveace
NBC is reporting that there is an (unsubstantiated) report that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit during the decent. This may not have been an accident.
this is not an accident !!!!!
The next initial theory to join the list. The cockpit windscreen cracks & the co-pilot? at the controls not belted in? is sucked out. The Pilot? returning from a bio-break is unable to re-enter cockpit. The Plane takes an auto descent due to de-pressurisation.
I think the sound of the air rushing into the cockpit would exceed the noise of the pilot? knocking on the cockpit door.
How close to Gap - the Monte Carlo Rally route is the crash site?
I have relatives flying around Europe/ the Planet regularly, I certainly wonder where they are at times when unfortunate events like this happen.
I have doubts that planes do that.... that they auto-descent even in the case of de-pressurisation. I imagine changing altitude levels is always initiated by a pilot and always after being cleared by air traffic controllers. Otherwise it would be chaos up there if planes start descending by themselves with no warning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
So really sad and bad news if the US news programme is to be believed,that one pilot goes out of the cabin for whatever reason .Senses that the plane is dropping fast as a brick ,the doors locked from the inside ,the co pilot will not let him in !
Another rouge pilot ,and as Roamy said an accident,and 150 people killed due to a problem with the guy at the controls.
Should it now be illegal for either pilot to leave the flight deck ,once the plane is in the air ?
The Airbus over Australia did some movements on its own due to faulty software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
The B2 pilots have a stainless steel bowl for bio-breaks. A commode could probably be squeezed on the flight deck. Now just make sure the pilots don't eat the same batch of food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northro...man_B-2_Spirit
Jet passenger flying must be stressful, there is the story of the two pilots who meet an alcoholics anonymous meeting and figure they must have flown the same plane together across the Atlantic while both were in an alcoholic stupor.
I guess they should have toilets in the cockpit then. I was under the impression that when a pilot leaves the cockpit there should be at least a flight attendant in there just to make sure someone can open that door if the other pilot loses consciousness for instance. At least that's what they were saying at some point in one air crash investigation episode and it makes sense if the door can be opened only from inside. I've noticed in my own flights that they don't follow this procedure. Maybe it's not mandatory in Europe?Quote:
Originally Posted by driveace
This video explains how the cockpit door in airplanes work. In case of a medical emergency it can always be opened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=138&v=ixEHV7c3VXs
EDIT: Just confirmed by the French prosecutors that it was indeed a suicide attack by the co-pilot :(
Yes I also read it on The Guardian's page just now.
Quite horrible that those innocent people knew for 10 minutes that they were going to their death. :mad:
Horrendous news for the parents and families too
Why are there so many accidents and pilots prepared to kill innocent passengers ,and in the name of what ?
I'm wondering if the pilot was packing a 357 magnum he coould have blown the freaking' door open and shoved 4 inches of cold steel up that son of a britches ass, and give him an extreme enema. I realize it would likely cause a loss of cabin pressure, but the outcome couldn't end up any worse.
What do you think Roamy?
The guy was ill, only god knows what was going through his mind at that momentQuote:
Originally Posted by driveace
OK so he was ill !
That does not give him a license to take 149 other poor souls who have the utmost confidence in their pilots back to their homes that fateful day ,to their untimely deaths .If the guy was wanting to kill himself I would gladly give him the rope and kick the buffet away once the rope was round his neck gladly !I have bad depressive days but I don't arm myself and go on a killing spree
Probably a concerning aspect of MH370(indian Ocean etc) is the investigators have not investigated all lines of enquiry in a timely manner.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...are-story.html
Quote:
Originally Posted by driveace
Yet.
His problem was ,that he was e reject !
rejected by a girlfriend who was worried about him and his actions ,
Pleaded with the captain about 4 or 5 times to take a toilet break ,he wanted him off the flight deck
He wasn't just sick ,he was a mass murderer !!!
And NO I would never have the tendencies to kill another 150 people just because I had a problem with myself
The final phase of the summer/ autumn search for MH370 has commenced.
I feel the exercise is also about mapping the sea floor as well as looking for the plane.
https://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370-pages/...al-update.aspx
The way the other theories have been downplayed might prove to be regrettable.
Byron Bailey theory - the pilot landed the place intact on the water.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1227346739023
German Oceangraphers' computer model suggests MH370 searchers looking in the wrong place.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel...-1227503602383
British Airways Beoing 777 catches fires at Las Vegas.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-vegas-airport
Did the pilot accidentally switch off the transponder during the preflight check? Better catching fire on the ground rather than in the air? Something inflammable in the cargo?
What abt the MH370, I was wondering last night, didn't they find some debris washed up in Reunion or somewhere?