Posted on 08/31/2011 11:43:47 AM PDT by J. Worthington
It’s basically close to freefall, if not freefall.
No worries. Kind of comes with the territory around here, doesn’t it. You take your chances posting something like this on the word of someone on the ground, eat crow if it’s nothing...Just too bad that the initial “flaming” probably makes folks skittish about sharing.
Absolutely. And they had to authorize it, unless there was such chaos that there was no radio contact.
You did a good thing. Thank you!
Dozens of folks in my friends office building saw it and were tweaked out (understandably). Many more on the ground would have seen it.
I tried using that for the flight I saw in ABQ, but I must be web-site deficient. I can’t get the flight data I’m looking for. I found the flight, but it’s only tracking the current outbound leg (headed for SFO from ABQ, but I’m pretty certain this was the flight I saw at about 11:45 this AM coming into ABQ). Is there a way to get past data?
FAMU?.............Rattlesnakes?....................
I bet the guy at Chicago Center who was controlling needed a break after that.
Yes, there is. On the lower end of the page are the previous flights. The DATE column has a hyperlink. Click the desired flight row in that history data and you should see the specific flight and map displayed. next to the blue map, there will TRACK LOG & GRAPH link. Click that to see that flight's data.
What was the airline and flight number?
I notice the speed increased a bit on the way down too
Thanks for posting it. I like the jokes people post too though.
I am weird that way.
Ditto.
That can’t possibly be right.
It looks like a computer malfunction spitting out a bad number during descent. It’s been 95 minutes and there isn’t a peep about an emergency landing anywhere.
The landing looks normal to me. Looks like everything was under control again pretty quickly.
Certainly it could be a recording anomaly, but the on the ground witnesses coincides with something being strange about this flight and you are right - nary a peep. Of course I am not local to Madison and sometimes it takes awhile for these things to be reported.
Maybe there was a pressurization/oxygen issue requiring descent below FL14? I read somewhere that if the masks deploy the pilots will descend immediamente.
Last year, my brother in law was on a flight from Florida to Charlotte that was redirected mid-flight to Savannah, GA after a loud BANG was heard in the cabin. The plane made the full-on emergency landing. People were told to assume the vaunted “crash position”. They landed safely but the flight was cancelled. I recall looking at the flight mapping (from the site I referenced) and it very clearly showed a spiraling approach path to the airport. It became clear the plane could not turn left from the ground trace shown.
In any event, even though my brother in law was on the plane, and had first-hand account information, no news agencies ever reported the incident.
At near free fall speed? I guess I don’t know what proper descent speed is in an emergency, but 100MPH descent is only about 20 MPH slower than free fall.
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