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The debri field is optional. There is actually no reason one is required. If the plane hits at 400 knots there will be a debri field. If the plane hits at 180 knots maybe not. If the plane hit relative flat it might welll float intact for a while. And if everyone or many on board were alive they would get the hell out of there onto wings and lifeboats and such. But if everyone is dead or mostly unconscious? It sinks slowly into the sea without giving up much if anything.
So no the debri field is not required by the physics involved .
It almost sounds like it was hit by a drone. A drone goes 450 knots. That would also explain why the pilot turned around to avoid it. (another theory)
The debri field is optional. There is actually no reason one is required. If the plane hits at 400 knots there will be a debri field. If the plane hits at 180 knots maybe not. If the plane hit relative flat it might welll float intact for a while. And if everyone or many on board were alive they would get the hell out of there onto wings and lifeboats and such. But if everyone is dead or mostly unconscious? It sinks slowly into the sea without giving up much if anything.
So no the debri field is not required by the physics involved .
It's almost impossible to land flat on water, ESPECIALLY on a choppy ocean with swells, without a lot of training. Sullenberger had a lot of training in water landings. That's very rare, though.
They, the families are still holding on to hope. Think if it was your family on that plane and you were told they are dead, crashed in the ocean, but nobody could provide you with a single piece of evidence, just assumptions. I understand them and how they feel. Find the damn plane and closure can begin.
This requires no explanation. I just thought it was pathetic that all Malaysia had to offer the families was an update about a 'ping'.
AF 447 hit the water flat, going pretty damn fast:
Debris items found were pancaked, so they knew it hit the water flat, most likely due to a high altitude stall, even before they recovered the black boxes.
Last edited by PokerMunkee; 03-26-2014 at 09:39 PM..
I thought I had heard every possible theory out there but this is a new one on me. So you are thinking an errant US drone collided with 370?
There wouldn't be one in the China Sea vicinity. There could only be one off the Arabian Peninsula or maybe around the northern Indian Ocean, though even that would be a huge stretch. That's nowhere near where any US drone activity would be. There's no reason for a China drone to be off the coast of Vietnam.
This is awful, but this crossed my mind while I was thinking of this mystery today. You know how we have the saying "wrong turn at Albuquerque?" Well, now the saying might change to: "Wrong turn at the Andaman Sea." [/bad attempt at morbid levity]
Serious: are they planning on getting an aircraft carrier into the search area? So they can have helicopters out searching and not be limited by the amount of time it takes to get back to Perth? (I heard that the planes take 4 hours each way, and then can only search for a couple hours because of fuel. To do that day in and day out is pretty amazing of those search crews).
That is just ridiculous that the entire flight is not recorded. That needs to change.
I agree. Some of these regulations were made when memory wasn't cheap and to store some 15 hour flight would have required banks of computers. A lot of the regulating agencies try not to hamstring carriers too badly because certain regulations would be absolutely cost prohibitive. In this day and age, though, a 32 GB thumb drive could store days worth of CVR information, including video and other data. I completely agree with you though. It is a bit inexcusable.
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