Posted on 08/15/2005 6:48:15 AM PDT by dead
If it were terrorism, the fellow sending the text message probably would have mentioned it. Sounds like a pressure failure...
How long does it take to write such a message on a cell phone- I find it a huge PITA to try to send messsages-
so....
Couldn't someone have taken the controls and flown to a lower altitude?
If you're used to it, it doesn't take long. Kinda like typing you get faster over time.
It's just a matter of time before the manufacturers get around to designing aircraft that can be landed remotely, without a pilot, in an emergency.
Yes. Terrifying, though. I don't even want to know what the passengers' last minutes were like.
A news report on the radio this morning said many of the passengers were "frozen solid" by the time of the crash, although I am highly suspicios of that report. How could they tell this so quickly, and after the plane had burned?
I don't know. I guess we'll get answers eventually.
suspocios = suspicious
My daughter is adept to the point of amazement. She can type out a flawless paragraph in seconds without even looking at her phone, complete with capitalization and punctuation.
I think they would have had to have battled some comic book supervillian for that to really be the case.
OK, but what caused the pressure failure? It's kind of like saying a fellow shot six times in the chest died of cardiac arrest; yes his heart failed, but that wasn't the real cause.
It would take a lot longer than they were in the air to freeze a human body solid. And for that matter, have it stay that frozen after returning to close to sea level and going through a fire.
I wonder how difficult it would be for a sleeper "maintenance tech" to slip cyanide into the plane's air supply?
Good question.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Most of the bodies recovered from the Cypriot plane that crashed into a mountain near Athens with 121 people on board were "frozen solid," a Greek Defense Ministry source said on Monday.
"Autopsy on passengers so far shows the bodies were frozen solid, including some whose skin was charred by flames from the crash," the source, with access to the investigation, told Reuters.
There were some reports saying that passengers may have attempted to do so.
If they supposedly passed out from lack of oxygen at altitude (as some have suggested), then why in the world did they apparently decend in the vacinity of the airport they were due to land at? Why didn't they just fly until they ran out of fuel like Payne Stewart's plane?
If there are 124 dead this time, it seems these officials are incapable of making a simple comparison.
True...
I thought the landing was practically the only part of a flight where you actually need the pilot. maybe we can have pilotless airplanes.
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