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| Southeast Asia |
| Missing plane's tail section 'located' |
| 2015-01-06 |
| [ARABNEWS] An Indonesian naval patrol vessel has found what could be the tail of a crashed AirAsia passenger jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located, officials said on Monday. Ships and aircraft scouring the northern Java Sea for debris and bodies from the Airbus A320-200 have widened their search to allow for currents eight days after Flight QZ8501 plunged into the water en route from Indonesia?s second-biggest city of Surabaya to Singapore with 162 people on board. ?We found what has a high probability of being the tail of the plane,? Yayan Sofyan, captain of the patrol vessel, told news hounds. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Bobby, I seem to recall a plane in brazil with a bug nest in the pitot tube resulting in a similar conclusion. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2015-01-06 12:49 |
| #3 tail section could be the empennage (that aft end of the bird containing the rudder, vertical stabilizer, elevators and horizontal stabilizer) not like the Airbus that lost its entire vertical stab/rudder over New Your several years ago. in flight forces probably caused the entire aircraft to break up in flight and this is the remnants of the aft end. I also suspect pitot static issues along with the computer. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-01-06 11:08 |
| #2 Icing, like the Air France 447 crash, where the pitot tubed iced up in a storm. Without the pitot tubes, the flight computer didn’t have enough data to fly the airplane, so the computer disconnected itself and the pilots inadvertently stalled the aircraft for 30,000 feet, right into the ocean. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-01-06 10:09 |
| #1 A320-200 fleet grounding soon to follow ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-06 06:16 |