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Originally posted by zorkthegreat
So stated before they found an aircraft seat floating, what airline was the seat from?
Originally posted by mmiichael
Does anyone know what commonly happens when a plane of this size goes down in the ocean? Is it relatively easy or difficult to locate debris?
I got the impression it is not so easy in the ocean. My guess is things are proceeding as they typically do, it taking days or weeks to find anything - if ever.
(ps to zorkthegreat - can you erase your repetition of my erroneously posted message - thanks)
Mike
[edit on 5-6-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by Harlequin
reply to post by zorkthegreat
www.weathergraphics.com...
^^ NASA satellite data allready in use.
Originally posted by CaptAvatar
I think the important question here is should you get on an Airbus jet. Remember when the entire vertical stabilizer disintegrated on that brand new Airbus? Maybe this is just another disintegrating airframe. I find it completely implausible that lightning took out the aircraft, I've been in airliners that have gotten struck by lightning. This was obviously a rapid and total failure of the airframe, otherwise the crew would have gotten out a mayday. The only question in my mind is - was it just a total failure of the aircraft, or did some external force cause a total failure of the aircraft and systems, like a missile or directed energy weapon.
That plane broke up at altitude going 400+ mph. The fragments were well dispersed even prior to impact with the ocean. They were then further dispersed by ocean currents. The debris are scattered over a very large area of the bottom of a very deep ocean. I will be surprised if they ever recover any pieces of it.
Originally posted by Acidtastic
What with the small 2 seater plane over the UK which went missing on wednesday, something's not adding up. they just lost contact with it, and no one's reported a plane coming down over cambridgeshire.
The plot thickens.
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
I'm still waiting to hear results or progress from the empty American promise of satellite coverage.
Originally posted by WhatTheory
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
I'm still waiting to hear results or progress from the empty American promise of satellite coverage.
Then get your own damn satellites.
Self reliance is a good thing.
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
Originally posted by WhatTheory
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
I'm still waiting to hear results or progress from the empty American promise of satellite coverage.
Then get your own damn satellites.
Self reliance is a good thing.
I'm not the one who went public and offered the use of them. They did.
Originally posted by WhatTheory
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
Originally posted by WhatTheory
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
I'm still waiting to hear results or progress from the empty American promise of satellite coverage.
Then get your own damn satellites.
Self reliance is a good thing.
I'm not the one who went public and offered the use of them. They did.
And you have no idea if they are being used or not. So stop with all the sly comments until you actually know something for certain.
Originally posted by zorkthegreat
Hence we need to get a progress report.