Posted on 01/09/2024 7:54:19 AM PST by Red Badger
It was absolute divine intervention that someone was not sitting next to that window/door!!
Looks like the crew pulls a circuit breaker.
This wasn’t done.
Why?
This is not an area where pilots would get a lot of training. A pilot in this situation might be very much averse to doing anything to CVR because it would look like he was trying to conceal something.
So these folks left the thing alone. It’s what most would do.
Yep, there are a few circuit breakers that are routinely pulled when the aircraft is shut down. One is the clicker on the altimeters. It gently bumps the altimeter because it is such a sensitive device that works on air pressure alone and “sticks”. The others are the CVR and FDR. As mentioned, the CVR records as long as the breaker is is. Older aircraft used a continuous magnetic tape to record the cockpit and were generally only good for about 30 minutes until the tape was overwritten. Newer aircraft use a digital model that has a longer record time.
“Does EVERY plane have a handy switch to disable the federally mandated flight recorder?”
It’s kind of like the disable switch in Jeffery Epstein’s cellblock.
A 2 hour loop? That’s ridiculous, especially given that todays CVRs are digital memory cards and could store weeks or months of CVR data.
In the early morning hours of February 24, 1989, Flight 811 was traveling from Honolulu, Hawaii to Sydney, Australia with a stop-over in Auckland, New Zealand.While the Boeing 747-122 was still ascending from Honolulu, it was suddenly rocked by a loud sound between 22,000 and 23,000 feet in the air, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Seconds later, a cargo door toward the front of the aircraft ripped off, taking with it a massive chunk of the plane's fuselage and leaving a gaping hole in the cabin and cargo area, according to the FAA.
Nine passengers in that section of the plane were pulled out into the night sky, the AP reported; at least one of them was sucked into an engine.
I don’t why that’s so funny, but it is. LOL
There is 2 hours of storage on the unit. it records over everything more than 1 hour, 59 minutes and 59 seconds old. The only way to stop if recording is to disable it. That means pulling the breaker.
We don’t save 25 hours of recordings because the pilot’s UNION objects. Plain and simple.
Continuous loop. It runs constantly, overwriting as it goes.
Looks more like the hull failed than a door simply popping out.
ok so whats the timing of all of this? Panel blows off, plane lands...
Let’s see if we have this straight - The CVR keeps recording with the plane shut down completely???
Yes..................
“Looks like the crew pulls a circuit breaker. This wasn’t done. Why?”
Perhaps they were distracted by having a GAPING HOLE in the cabin?
Exactly!
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