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This news coverage is getting embarrassing. I have to wonder how much more ocean trash they'll find before giving up. CNN might as well be going around with camera crews looking in dumpsters because they're bound to find something more interesting.
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You would think the number 1 channel for airport terminal TV would start taking a ratings hit by constantly talking about this.
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McDowell posted:You would think the number 1 channel for airport terminal TV would start taking a ratings hit by constantly talking about this. its pretty important all airport tv viewers know that if they are smashed into chunks at sea, their aircraft can be recovered in pieces, or as their bloated corpses wash up on shore in a few months.
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Mar 31, 2014 00:25
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There are times when you've got to call a spade a spade. The plane is gone.
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Mar 31, 2014 00:27
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For page 75
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Its gone, guys.
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myshl0ng posted:There are times when you've got to call a spade a spade. The plane is gone. I don't think we've given it enough time, the plane might still be out there.
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Mar 31, 2014 01:08
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why does the battery power of the black box matter, i would think the danger was ocean pressure or longer term erosion
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Mar 31, 2014 01:29
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The battery powers the pinger, which is how searchers find the black box. Once that runs out, good loving luck finding it. Really, good loving like finding it even with the pinger due to the limited range because of water interference.
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Mar 31, 2014 01:37
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Now look here. I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I've just been informed that this plane had lifeboats on it (which may be but probably aren't the orange things they're spotting now). What in the eternal poo poo is a got-drat jumbo jet going to do with a Christing lifeboat when it's hitting the water at 500 befuckled mph.
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i too have nebver been on a plane why boat on plane?
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mdemone posted:What in the eternal poo poo is a got-drat jumbo jet going to do with a Christing lifeboat when it's hitting the water at 500 befuckled mph. Google "plane lands in hudson river"
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:Google "plane lands in hudson river" Gonna go ahead and guess that right after take-off Sully's short-range Airbus was probably not hitting a 777's cruising speed
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Mar 31, 2014 01:57
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You're right the 777's cruising speed is mach 0.83 while Sully's craft only manages a paltry mach 0.78.
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mdemone posted:Now look here. I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I've just been informed that this plane had lifeboats on it (which may be but probably aren't the orange things they're spotting now). Nothing, most of the time. But the 1 in 1000 crash where passengers do somehow survive and wind up in the water, there better be life rafts and flotation device seat cushions. Otherwise people will be mad, "You couldn't even spring for a rubber raft? You suck!" Nobody is going to be sympathetic that it is basically wasting money for the airline to fly around rafts that can never be used.
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Mar 31, 2014 02:01
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Angela Christine posted:Nothing, most of the time. But the 1 in 1000 crash where passengers do somehow survive and wind up in the water, there better be life rafts and flotation device seat cushions. Otherwise people will be mad, "You couldn't even spring for a rubber raft? You suck!" Nobody is going to be sympathetic that it is basically wasting money for the airline to fly around rafts that can never be used. But when asked about modernizing the black box technology they're just like, "Nah."
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verymoldy posted:You're right the 777's cruising speed is mach 0.83 while Sully's craft only manages a paltry mach 0.78. Read his account of the landing. The plane never broke 250 knots during flight and he managed to glide it down to a significantly slower speed.
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Mar 31, 2014 02:03
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Is it still in t he air has anyone looked
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mdemone posted:Gonna go ahead and guess that right after take-off Sully's short-range Airbus was probably not hitting a 777's cruising speed I'm guessing the point is that not every plane that has to make an emergency descent over water will be hitting at 500 mph, and you carry lifeboats for the set of ditchings where it is not
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mdemone posted:Gonna go ahead and guess that right after take-off Sully's short-range Airbus was probably not hitting a 777's cruising speed
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a black box stops working after a month and is usually late on rent
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mdemone posted:Read his account of the landing. The plane never broke 250 knots during flight and he managed to glide it down to a significantly slower speed. And also 777s are immune to having issues at takeoff that result in them losing power before hitting cruising speed?
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Cartoon posted:Because all pilots try and land their planes at cruising speed especially when doing so on water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALM_Flight_980 These guys flew thousands of miles into the middle of nowhere so they could try a safe water landing?
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Yeah, even if they crash right near takeoff and you'll only be in the water for an hour, an hour in a lifeboat is more pleasant than an hour in the water.
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Mar 31, 2014 02:12
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Why not make the battery run on nuclear power like the submarines, corruption?
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Mar 31, 2014 02:13
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Has anyone checked to see if the plane is camouflaged as a cloud in the sky? Maybe that's how it alluded the radars. It could be heading for the world trade center building right now!
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Mar 31, 2014 02:14
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have they tried turning the plane off and back on again?
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amityville anus posted:have they tried turning the plane off and back on again? We'll send a refresh signal to your plane right now, this should only take 3-7 minutes.
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Mar 31, 2014 02:37
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Don't planes have OnStar technology? Or LoJack?
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redshirt posted:Don't planes have OnStar technology? they could but the airlines say it's too expensive so nope
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Al Borland posted:Has anyone checked to see if the plane is camouflaged as a cloud in the sky? Maybe that's how it alluded the radars. It could be heading for the world trade center building right now! Don't be stupid. The latest theory is that the fire extinguishers were full of helium and the Illuminati operatives onboard let them all off, making the plane lighter. This means it can then go higher in orbit, and is now docked at a low orbiting space station. This is the the best way to hide it until they get the nukes onboard, everyone is looking at the sea, when they should be looking at the stars!
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happyhippy posted:The latest theory is that the fire extinguishers were full of helium and the Illuminati operatives onboard let them all off, making the plane lighter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v9kK3wtNy4
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Breaking news: nothing new to report just yet we will update you with nothing happening as it doesn't happen
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Zogo posted:CNN might as well be going around with camera crews looking in dumpsters because they're bound to find something more interesting. /\ I would watch this /\
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The greys have them. Everyone's thinking it, I'm just saying it.
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mdemone posted:Now look here. I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I've just been informed that this plane had lifeboats on it (which may be but probably aren't the orange things they're spotting now). The escape slides are the lifeboats. They are inflated to use so in a water landing you're supposed to detach them from the plane after crashing.
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Ivor Biggun posted:The escape slides are the lifeboats. They are inflated to use so in a water landing you're supposed to detach them from the plane after crashing. Is there a single documented case of a large commercial airliner being able to land in open ocean water? Don't think that's physically possible. Hudson/rivers/lakes don't count.
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Rad Russian posted:Is there a single documented case of a large commercial airliner being able to land in open ocean water? Don't think that's physically possible. Hudson/rivers/lakes don't count. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
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This is the definitive open water ditching. The Ethiopian Air flight was being messed with by hijackers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALM_Flight_980
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