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"Investigators should have an easier time recovering debris and black boxes in the crash of a Yemeni Airbus 310 with 153 people on board that went down Tuesday just nine miles (14.5 kilometers) north of the Indian Ocean island-nation of Comoros."
Here's the story we almost didn't get - the LAST line in the article...
ANOTHER Airbus 310 went down - on Tuesday?!
Hmmm.... MAYBE we'd better pay a LOT of attention on what went wrong on that one!
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"Investigators should have an easier time recovering debris and black boxes in the crash of a Yemeni Airbus 310 with 153 people on board that went down Tuesday just nine miles (14.5 kilometers) north of the Indian Ocean island-nation of Comoros."
Here's the story we almost didn't get - the LAST line in the article...
ANOTHER Airbus 310 went down - on Tuesday?!
Hmmm.... MAYBE we'd better pay a LOT of attention on what went wrong on that one!
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How did this person know what happened when the black boxes still haven't been found; most of the plane is still missing as is the majority of passengers; and those found are all dead?
Anything for one's five minutes of fame these days, it seems.
Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.
I don't understand this: "Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said..."
They had no time to inflate life jackets before what? Is the investigator implying that if they'd had them on some would have survived? It seems to me that if it slammed into the sea at such a high speed, he's suggesting that the impact was lethal. If so, the fact that there was no time for life vests was irrelevant. If he means something else, it isn't clear. Very confusing...
I do not believe the accident investigator was implying anything; they don't do that sort of thing. They state things, and reporters turn one small fact into a day's work. There is no reason to believe that anyone would have survived if life jackets were deployed. No one knows how much time anyone had to do anything, but it is likely that hitting the water was the lethal part of this event. I don't know if that helps you get unconfused---but a lot of this investigation is still unknown.
All it's saying is that it happened very, very fast.
I think what you're seeing is evidence of "inadvertent flight into terrain", i.e.with all the things that stopped working and considering the weather and time, the flight crew didn't know they were descending and flew right into the water.
It's going to be one of those "pilot error" determinations, with the error caused by all the equipment malfunctioning.
I mis-spoke - that should be "controlled flight into terrain".
This airbus accident, I think was terrorism. France keeps changing its story as to what happened. I think they are afraid that no one will want to travel on Air France (if that was the airline) if they admit it was a terrorist act.
How did your hypothetical terrorists manage to time this event to correspond so perfectly with the one severe weather system en route? What devious device did they employ to disable first the airspeed indicators, and then a minute later the gyros, without releasing the cabin pressurization for another two minutes? And finally, why do you think these terrorists didn't claim responsibility? Are they trying to drive us mad with curiosity?
Accident investigations can take years, and the 'story' changes as more is learned.
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