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 ...
Sounds reasonable.
Well said sir!
‘Fixed Window Sensor’ alarm indicates a window was blown out, no?
LOOK!!!!!! A squirrel !!!!!!!
F16s were lost from chafing wires in the flight controls.
LOOK!!!!!! A squirrel !!!!!!!
Or over a muslim country.
Shoe bomber
Must be transgendered Muzzies...
Just finished an airlines disaster novel by Ridley Pearson, called Hard Fall published in 1992. In it he details a case where the fire extinguisher in the cockpit and a detonator to set a fire is rigged. This flt 804 is eerily similar.
There’s more to it but I will not here explain further.
My understanding is that the radios were in the area thought to be the source of the fire.
The handheld is great for general aviation and near-coast boating (in their respective frequencies and modes), where somebody or ground/land monitoring is likely to be taking place.
Just a couple of pennies.
Maui Wowee and Labrador! According to Chong, his dog ate his stash!
When you think your airlane is on fire, you do not think about anything other than how to put the fire out and how to control the aircraft.
The number one rule in aviation is expressed in three sentences.
Aviate
Navigate
Communicate.
For those who don’t get it:
Aviate....fly the airplane first and above all else. Keep it upright and in one piece.
Navigate.....don’t run into any mountains and the ground while distracted by your problem.
Communicate is last because the first two will probably consume your time for quite a while.
The MAYDAY MAYDAY thing is the stuff of movies. 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.
That crew was concentrating full time on trying to get the aircraft under control.
Well, either that, or deliberately crashing it.
Apparently our crack investigators in the FBI started the not terrorism meme. Was reported on Zero Hedge yesterday. FBI reports no sign of explosion. Forget the fireball witnesses saw. Gee. This seems like Deja Vu all over again.
Smoke in the cockpit area would convince me that the pilots were not the villains.
It is either a design/maintenance problem or sabotage.
I suspect the latter.
“I think everyone hopes that it was not terrorism”
I hope it was terrorism. Otherwise, we’d have Airbuses dropping out of the sky for no known technical reason. It’s no great revelation there are terrorists.
“I hope it was terrorism. Otherwise, wed have Airbuses dropping out of the sky for no known technical reason. Its no great revelation there are terrorists.”
If it was a mechanical problem, that problem can be fixed on other Airbus products.
That option is easy and cheap.
Also, a ground crew mechanic could have planted a bomb in the avionics bay.
No communications whatsoever from the crew.
Did I hear that the debris field is being reported as 40 miles in length?
From the first indicator of trouble (smoke) to the final signal sent/received, just four seconds (or less) in elapsed time transpires.
Reminded of the telemetry received in the space shuttle's disintegration. A short final burst of information sent/received signifying anomalies, and then poof- nothing, due to a catastrophic break up.
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