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Originally posted by Boone 870
Now, a question for you. How would an engine ending up 2000 feet away from
Originally posted by weedwhacker
.did they find either of the CSDs? If you don't know what that means, then you don't know how to incvestigte an airplane crash......
Cabin pressure - NORMAL. Hydraulics - NORMAL. Cargo fire - NORMAL. Smoke - NORMAL. Engines - RUNNING. Engine RPM (N1) 70% . Fuel pressure - NORMAL. Engine vibration - LO. Wind direction - WEST. Wind speed - 25 kts. Pitch angle - 40 deg down. Airspeed - 500 kts. Heading - 180 deg. Roll angle - 150 deg right. AoA - 20 deg negative
Originally posted by CaptainObvious
Read the FDR. The plane was not falling apart or hit by a missile.
The FDR does not support this, neither do the eyewitnesses.
1. The plane was undergoing severe G forces and the engine was ripped off the plane.
The FDR does not support this, neither do the eyewitnesses.
2. The plane was hit by a missile or gun fire and the engine came off the plane.
Originally posted by CaptainObvious
yes. There were 2 debris fields. There was a part of an engine found quite a distance from the impact point.
I agree with you.
Some officials have suggested that wind scattered the debris once on the ground, but wind certainly couldn't have blown a one-ton engine a half-mile, nor could the 9-mile-per-hour wind have blown debris for eight miles.
An article in Popular Mechanics attempts to explain the far-flung debris by suggesting that the engine "tumbl[ed] across the ground" and that the light debris was "blasted skyward by the heat of the explosion from the crash." Such scenarios are impossible given the nature of the crash, wherein the plane dove into the soft ground from a nearly vertical trajectory.
Originally posted by Boone 870
Your source also states "near vertical". Since when is 41° near vertical?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Did one engine break away just split-seconds before impact?
Robert Sherman, a conventional weapons expert with the Federation of American Scientists who worked for the state department as former executive director of the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Advisory Board, and also wrote extensively about F-16s and Sidewinder missiles, looked at the missile theories on flight93crash.com and deemed it "the usual paranoid crap."
"There was nothing there that gets me very worked up," he says. "Maybe [the plane] did break up. A crash is not a sanitary event. By definition, the uncontrolled impact of an airplane does strange things."
Sherman said that if a missile had hit Flight 93, there would have been more evidence. "If a Sidewinder had hit it, there would have been pieces of the fan or the fuselage in a larger area," he says. "If the engine breaks up, then the fan blades are going to come off like bullets. Pieces of the wing and fuselage would be all over the place."
Jeff Reinbold, the National Park Service representative responsible for the Flight 93 National Memorial, confirms the direction and distance from the crash site to the basin: just over 300 yards south, which means the fan landed in the direction the jet was traveling. "It's not unusual for an engine to move or tumble across the ground," says Michael K. Hynes, an airline accident expert who investigated the crash of TWA Flight 800 out of New York City in 1996. "When you have very high velocities, 500 mph or more," Hynes says, "you are talking about 700 to 800 ft. per second. For something to hit the ground with that kind of energy, it would only take a few seconds to bounce up and travel 300 yards."
Crowley said that debris from the crash has been found in New Baltimore, Pa., which is 8 miles away from the crash scene, and Indian Lake, which is 2 1/2 miles away from the crash scene. Crowley said that NTSB officials said that it is probable that the debris in New Baltimore is from the crash.
The debris found in New Baltimore include paper and nylon, Crowley said. He said that the debris found is lightweight and easily can be carried by the wind. At the time of the crash, there was wind speed of 9 knots per hour heading to the southeast. Both Indian Lake and New Baltimore are southeast of the crash scene.
Jim Brant, owner of Indian Lake Marina, said he rushed outside Tuesday morning when he heard the roar of jet engines overhead, then saw a fireball rise into the air. The wind was strong that morning, Brant said, and within minutes debris from the crash was "falling like confetti."
Investigators say they've found debris from the crash at least eight miles away from the crash site.
A second debris field was around Indian Lake about 3 miles from the crash scene. Some debris was in the lake and some was adjacent to the lake. More debris from the plane was found in New Baltimore, some 8 miles away from the crash.
State police and the FBI initially said they didn't want to speculate whether the debris was from the crash, or if the plane could have broken up in midair. Investigators later said the debris was all very light material, such as paper and thin nylon the wind would easily blow. The wind was blowing towards Indian Lake and New Baltimore at 9 knots [10.5 mph]. "According to the NTSB, it is not only possible that the debris is from the crash, it is probable," Crowley said.
Originally posted by CaptainObvious
All of a sudden the lights flickered and we joked that maybe they were coming for us.
Fleegle said he climbed on the roof of an abandoned cabin and tossed down a burning seat cushion that had landed there.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Did one engine break away just split-seconds before impact?
If one engine broke away before impact why did it break away?
G forces, explosion?
By the way can you show me the Flight 93 FDR data from the NTSB, i only have the Flght 77 FDR data?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
ULTIMA, Boone posted a link, in his reply to me, page 101, about midway.
Enjoy!
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Gee, i wonder what casued the lights to flicker, maybe a plane with a jammer?
So i guess the wind blew the seat cushion on the roof, or was it the explosion that blew it up onto the roof ?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
There is info on fuel consumption and airspeeds.....AND the FDR records autoflight activity!!!!!!!