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2019-03-15 Africa North

Ethiopian 737 Max 8 Mystery – What About The Explosion?

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-15 04:27|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 If an engine blew, the rattling would be metal grinding in the turbines, which rkcket tbe metal into the fuselage and suitcases resulting in clothing scattering. White smoke is the automatic fire suppression system coating the exploded engine.

Engines are under greatest stress lifting the airliner from the ground to 30,000 feet.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-03-15 05:18|| 2019-03-15 05:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The MCAS will not cause an explosion. However, an explosion can cause flight control failure. If something exploded, as the witnesses saw, tail control would most likely be an issue and that means loss of Pitch control. This could make them think its an MCAS failure, but in reality its not. This is going to get interesting.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-03-15 09:43|| 2019-03-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Masking a terrorist act (aircraft bombing) by selecting a single type of aircraft for 'mechanical failure'....?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-15 09:48|| 2019-03-15 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Or vice versa?

Confucius say, "Man who buy Boeing
Still hungry, though maybe not knowing.
Try order of pecking
With two sides of wrecking,
Wake up and hear Beijing duck crowing!"

Posted by Kojo Lover of the French7802 2019-03-15 10:44|| 2019-03-15 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Masking a terrorist act (aircraft bombing) by selecting a single type of aircraft for 'mechanical failure'....?

Hmm, interesting. Playing Devil's Advocate, that model is in wide use which could mean chance selection and terrorists generally like publicity as much as destruction.

If this was a Tom Clancy novel, it would be Airbus engaged in corporate warfare. I wonder how much you could make on a Soros-ish stock manipulation?

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-15 10:51|| 2019-03-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing should be discounted at this point.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-15 11:06|| 2019-03-15 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll choose physical evidence over eyewitness reports. Evidently, so does the FAA.

In the debris field the elevator trim jackscrew was found in the full-nose-down position. The crew and passengers never had a chance.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-03-15 14:47|| 2019-03-15 14:47|| Front Page Top

#8 To Steve S' point @5:

Chance selection? Not so fast; Flightaware as well as other flight tracking apps will display the equipment used on a particular flight; current as well as historical. So you could stack the deck if your targeted plane of choice were known on the desired routes.

Won't know the tail number but model/series.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-03-15 15:05|| 2019-03-15 15:05|| Front Page Top

#9 All you hardheads...
Nobody's asking if the 'innovative' stall prevention code was outsourced? Does it live in other models?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-15 15:27|| 2019-03-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 So you could stack the deck if your targeted plane of choice were known on the desired routes.

Interesting, USN, Ret. Insider stuff like this is just another reason why I love the 'Burg.

As a connoisseur of How Stuff Breaks, I've noticed that catastrophic failures are usually due to a cascade of events rather than a single failure. As I understand, the MCAS was grafted on to the control system after some changes to the wing design made the plane squirrelly. We've seen a number of crashes where the autopilot is doing something inappropriate, usually in response to bad sensor data and the pilot is unable to regain control, whether from forgetting to turn off the automation, lack of experience, or just running out of speed/altitude.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-15 17:33|| 2019-03-15 17:33|| Front Page Top

#11 The truth regarding PAN AM-103 might never have been known had it made it to the Atlantic.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-15 17:43|| 2019-03-15 17:43|| Front Page Top

#12 also not to pile on the “Lazy B,” but the usaf stopped taking deliveries of the KC-46 tankers due to fod throughout the aircraft; mass quantities if reportsare true

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-03-15 19:02|| 2019-03-15 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13 What's fod?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-15 20:40|| 2019-03-15 20:40|| Front Page Top

#14 FOD, Foreign Object Debris. Some Call it foreign object damage. Its tools, nuts bolts and garbage that is not supposed to be there.

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-03-15 21:56|| 2019-03-15 21:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Birdstrike made the MCAS go nuts?

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