One theory being tossed about is that if the plane was not properly grounded, a lightning strike could have shorted the electrical system.
No pilot in their right mind would intentionally flight into a thunderstorm. I have been on flights where the pilots went way out of our way to avoid them. If you look on http://www.flightaware.com and check out DFW during a severe storm, you can see the flight paths of planes avoiding storm cells. Something happened to knock all these computers and devices out. Those black boxes will hold the key, assuming they can find them. 27 days left... -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:31 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: They lost an airplane??? Very interesting....anybody with flight experience on this list have any early theories about what this all means? Did the pilots fail to fly around a dangerous storm? Could a lightning strike alone cause all this damage? Did the plane systems just go belly up for some unknown reason? Anyone seeing pilot error in this? On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > gg wrote: > > I heard on the news that the sea floor area where it went down is like > > the Andes mountains > > Wow: 4-5 minutes between the problem and the a/c breaking up in mid-air: > > The report said the pilot sent a manual signal at 11 p.m. local time > saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" _ black, electrically > charged cumulo-nimbus clouds ... satellite data has shown that > towering thunderheads were sending 100 mph (160 kph) winds straight > into the jet's flight path at that time. > > Ten minutes later, the plane sent a burst of automatic messages, > indicating the autopilot had disengaged, the "fly-by-wire" computer > system had been switched to alternative power, and controls needed to > keep the plane stable had been damaged. An alarm also sounded, > indicating the deterioration of flight systems, according to the > report. > > Three minutes after that, more automatic messages indicated the > failure of two other fundamental systems pilots use to monitor air > speed, altitude and direction. Then, a cascade of other electrical > failures in systems that control the main flight computer and wing > spoilers. > > The report repeats a detail previously released by Brazil's Air Force: > that the last message came at 11:14 pm, indicating loss of air > pressure and electrical failure. The newspaper said this could mean > sudden de-pressurization, or that the plane was already plunging into > the ocean. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297978 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
