Posted on 01/20/2015 8:11:02 AM PST by BenLurkin
"The voice from the cockpit does not show any sign of a terrorist attack. It is only the pilot, sounding very busy," Andreas Hananto, an investigator at Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee, said in an interview with the news agency Reuters.
He said Monday that investigators had heard "no threats" in the recordings.
"We didn't hear any voice of other persons other than the pilots," Nurcahyo Utomo, another investigator, told Reuters.
But it remains a mystery what brought down the aircraft on December 28 as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya toward Singapore with 162 people on board.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee are experts in scrubbing the tapes
Really?
I don’t think that terrorism was involved, but given CNN’s almost laughable reporting and lack of expertise in virtually any subject, I’d just pass this by and see what transpires after non-journalists (translation: those who have real educations) process the clues.
Other news sources are now saying that the aircraft suddenly climbed at a rate of 6,000 fpm. At 37,000 feet this would have induced a stall which the crew was evidently unable to recover from.
Sounds quite similar to the Air France Flight 447 crash in 2009.
no it doesn;t...Flying while Muslim happens often!
I suspect the crew disconnected the auto pilot in order to initiate a rapid climb. My guess is that they were attempting to avoid weather at the last minute. They had requested an altitude change to avoid weather but ATC had denied the request due to congestion at the higher altitude. They probably hit some nasty stuff, said to hell with it and reefed back on the controls. At that altitude there’s only a few knots difference between going transonic and stalling. A 6,000 fps nose up climb would most certainly have stalled the aircraft.
It happened before , have a look at “Birgenair Flight 301”
( and that was a Boeing )
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