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POPSPilots question speed sensors' troubled history Barr, the USC aviation safety professor, said serious efforts to correct safety problems in the airline industry tend to increase in direct proportion to the number of people killed, while too little action is often taken in response to incidents in which no one is killed. It even has a name: blood priority. "The more blood that is spilled, the more corrective action is taken. The less blood that is spilled, the less corrective action that's taken," Barr said.
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POPSAnother Pitot Tube Incident Digital fly by wire has been around for decades. How long has Airbus been using these particular pitot tubes? ......Tell the pilots union to order their aircrews to put their hands out the cockpit windows to test airspeed, until these airspeed detection problems are fixed.
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POPSAirbus A330 Problems June 1, 2009 - Air France Flight 447 Rio to Paris Crashes during Atlantic storm, killing 228. Automatic radio messages indicate that in minutes before crash, crew lost autopilot, ADIRU and computerised instruments. June 23, 2009 - Northwest Airlines Hong Kong to Tokyo Flight loses autopilot, ADIRU and instruments before landing safely. US investigation under way.
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POPSAF 447 HIT WATER INTACT IN VERTICAL DIVE This is contrary to previous reports by the experts. After studying the remains of the aircraft and passengers, investigators had said the types of injuries to the people found, had been consistent with inflight breakup of the aircraft. Usually, the large pieces that were found indicate a breakup before impact with the ocean. However, the reasons for an Airbus 330 hitting the water vertically raises a few more questions. For one, did the pilots not have any control after the power outages (PM1 failed). They may not have been able to reorient themselves if they didn't have Artificial horizon functioning and other extremely important devices that would help the crew determine which way is up.
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POPSSearch on for Yemeni plane crash survivors; child rescued This particular aircraft A310, was banned from French airspace. In fact, the passengers disembarked from an aircraft after departing France that was "allowed" to use French airspace. They then boarded this doomed flight. Winds are now being reported as gusting to 90 mph, earlier I had read they were in the realm of 39 mph....I'll stick with the 39 or so numbers...Still bad business to try and land in--not impossible, but certainly very tricky and dependent upon the skills of the crew and the absolute direction of these winds.
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POPSNTSB to probe problems on other Airbus flights In one of the other incidents, the Airbus plane in question suffered many of the same symptoms encountered by Air France 447. Loss of primary information and autopilot disconnect......Are there other phenomenon that are peculiar to the Airbus 330 that would cause the loss of Primary data, disconnect of autopilot and in AF447, decompression??
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POPSTwo Passengers on Doomed Flight Linked to Terroris Now we are teetering toward the theory that the destruction of Flight 447 as being a possible victim to Muslim terrorists. Some may remember I posted a news message about a bomb threat to an Air France airliner just a few days before this crash. Although, Brazilian authorities searched the "bomb threat plane" meticulously, it left and landed in Paris without incident. This plane flew the same flight plan as AF 447. Now we may have a possible coincidence according to the French that the names listed on the doomed flight were indeed a match to a list of Islamic terrorists. But, coincidences are easy to accept in hard to believe circumstances. We do have the bomb threats on a previous flight and we have two names of passengers that are considered "a threat" to the French Republic. I wonder if these two names were on the passenger manifest that was held up for the bomb threat flight?. ..... lakotahope.blogspot.com
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POPSAirbus A380 Virtual Cockpit Tour This is pretty impressive. I put it on my blogsite and decided I need to put this out there for more aviation people to see.... lakotahope.blogspot.com
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POPSA Unique Search Vessel Joins Search Submarines do have very sensitive acoustic abilities. Apparently, they can detect and catalogue a ship's screws from as far away as the United States is to Europe.
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POPSFlying Too Slowly When I first heard about airspeeds, I believed the investigators and Airbus personnel were discussing too high an airspeed for penetrating bad weather. Above the Design Maneuvering Speed, but stalling? I heard about a phenomenon called a 'high speed' stall. This involved Learjets or some similar corporate jet at high altitudes. Anyone know about this?
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POPSBomb Theory Remains Alive As always, the bomb theory is always on the back of everyone's minds, whether we admit to it or not. Satellite data has already shown that storms were sending 100mph winds straight into the Airbus's path at that time. Ten minutes later, the plane sent a burst of automatic messages, indicating the autopilot had disengaged, the flight-control computer system had been switched to alternative-power and controls needed to keep the plane stable had been damaged. Three minutes later, automatic messages warned that two other fundamental systems that monitor air speed, altitude and direction had failed. Then came a cascade of electrical failures in systems that control the main flight computer and wing spoilers. The last message came at 11.14pm, indicating loss of air pressure and electrical failure. The newspaper said this could mean sudden depressurisation, or that the plane was already falling into the ocean. http://lakotahope.blogspot.com
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POPSAirbus 330 - Electric Jet Still Missing One of the statements made about a loss of pressure, reminds me of a Turkish flight that lost a cargo door. This resulted in a catastrophic cabin pressure loss that collapsed part of the cabin floor, pulling out several passengers, Worse, it also severed hydraulic systems that controlled the aircrafts wing surfaces. This plane plowed into the ground at over 500 mph just outside of Paris. Loss of cabin pressure--bomb??? Too soon to speculate....
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