Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Darksheare
A loss of control of the propulsion is still a loss.

How many ways can you say it wrong? They apparently lost control of the steering. Ships that size do not steer with their propellers. People who know these ships say that the cloud of black smoke seen exiting from the engine stacks before the crash was due to the engines being throttled up after reversing. So the propulsion systems must have been working.

94 posted on 03/26/2024 10:53:16 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 91 | View Replies ]


To: Chad C. Mulligan

I’m not the one whose premise is that because a priir deficiency was supposedly fixed that nothing else could possibly be wrong ever.


95 posted on 03/26/2024 10:57:16 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

To: Chad C. Mulligan

The loss of power (not loss of propulsion) resulted in the loss of hydraulics, and thus loss of control of the ship. If they had maintained power after the first outage, they may have had time to recover...but they lost power again. As it is, they were able to slow the ship in Back Emergency, down to 1.5 knots at the time of the collision.


100 posted on 03/26/2024 11:22:08 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson