Posted on 05/20/2016 2:03:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Data transmitted from a doomed EgyptAir flight minutes before it fell off radar screens suggests a fire had broken out on board the plane, according to an aviation industry website.
AvHerald.com is reporting that data transmissions from EgyptAir Flight 804 to ground stations show smoke was detected in a bathroom near the cockpit.
The report includes the plane-to-ground messages sent in the final minutes of the flight:
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT
The information would suggest the possibility of smoke or a fire in close proximity to the electronics and equipment bay of the Airbus below the floor of the cockpit
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
It is not “easy and cheap” when you have to ground entire fleets waiting for problem discovery/solution. Ask Boeing how much fun they had with the 787.
I wonder if the long, inexplicable delay in finding the crash site was not the start of a cover up. They should have - and maybe did - find it within a hour of first light. Then, they got all the evidence and black boxes - this took about a day. Then, they announced they had finally found it.
This is speculation on my part. But it does fit the time line.
Thank you. Situation I was referencing was chafing in a fuel tank (causing an in-flight explosion) of a B-707 type, not just loss of flight controls.
“The MAYDAY MAYDAY thing is the stuff of movies. “
Indeed. All ATC can do for you is send a post-card to your wife. . .does just as much good.
“Those of us who have flown a lot of hours are amazed at how calm crew members driving big iron sound in declaring an emergency.”
Lot of hours. . .how many and type? I’ve had my share of IFE’s in the A-10 and the F-15E, no biggee, that is why we practice and know the systems. Besides, gotta sound calm on the radios because you want your last worlds to sound cool, not panicky like a little girl.
“If it was a mechanical problem, that problem can be fixed on other Airbus products.”
Provided enough wreckage remains to determine without a doubt what caused it.
Sure, a pressure-triggered bomb in the baggage compartment. Automatically armed at cruising altitude, detonated by rising pressure when they started descending into Cairo.
Min were not nearly as exciting as yours.
10,000 hours business aviation, light twin,.
Retired quite a few years ago.
Where there are muzz’s there is death.
This is a HUGE clue that this was a calculated take down of the aircraft.
.......or even a vapor elec cig. They have been exploding.
The waters there is 10,000 feet deep. Even if they did find where it crashed, it would be impossible to find the black boxes that quickly.
Sounds a bit like conspiracy theory.
Now that is true. . .and another possibility. . .
They have announced, now, that they have found the flight recorders. That is within 24 hours of locating the crash site - according to the official story. But I do have doubts about this story.
smoke does not mean fire
an electronic short will generate copious smoke and no fire
A "design" feature?
Lack of claim of responsibility could be due to this being a 'lone wolf' bomb maker* OR there's more aircraft take-downs afoot. *
SUICIDE BOMBER IN THE BATHROOM?
In Feb 2016, a laptop bomb was smuggled aboard an Airbus A320 in Somalia. A passenger set it off, blowing a hole in the side of the plane that sucked them out. Despite the damage, the plane managed to land.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/02/africa/somalia-airplane-explosion/
The Egyptian A320 was in Eritrea (near Somalia) the morning of the crash. Maybe the pilot picked up a laptop bomb and carried it aboard. They don’t check pilots that thoroughly.
Sensors on the Egyptian A320 showed smoke and things failing in the cockpit and nearby restroom. A suicidal pilot could have brought a bomb on board.
No way was this a mechanical malfunction. If you study the flight path of this aircraft it went down in the worst possible place for finding the fuselage (open ocean and the ONLY place along the entire flight path where the ocean was the deepest). This is NO coincidence and defies statistical probability for it being a mere malfunction.
The more I think about it, I'll also conclude a 'suicidal' pilot did it, more specifically the PILOT SITTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE COCKPIT (Which Mohammed was that?) We all know he REALLY did it for Allah, though. The media can't wait to call it "SUICIDE" and bash Trump for blaming terrorism.
Mark it!
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