I do apologise… I’m not an aviation expert either and there is not a lot of information about the crash. The vertical dive was unusual. I’m just interested about that. The Chinese aviation authority will maybe offer what exactly happened.
It appears and I hope this is true that the G forces would have rendered everyone unconscious before impact .
It is no good us non-experts trying to guess possible causes.
It has only just happened, so the experts probably don’t even know themselves yet, give them time to investigate.
Two minutes is a long time in a situation like that.
Gravity can be such a bitch!
Mrs LD is frequently cursing it too
I know how she feels LongDriver, had a few scrapes myself in the past…
It wasn’t the scrapes she moans about, but the excessive frontage migration south
Oh! I seem to have gone the other way on that score LongDriver, I’ve grown a pair…
Decorum please gentlemen. Remember the thread subject.
won’t put me off flying still the safest method of transport. if it were a terrorist attack they must have had detailed knowledge of the plane to know where to place a very small explosive device to have the maximum effect.
To me it looks like poor or no maintence safety check by the ground crew who failed to find a defective critical part of the aircraft, possibly to do with the wing operation.
Yes sorry Mel, my tits are not the subject being discussed…
However, for a plane to suddenly dive like that, I would imagine it was complete catastrophic engine failure. With such small wingspans on modern jets they have very limited gliding capability.
Things do just break at times completely out of the blue. When you think about the stresses and strains that some machinery such as aircraft operate under with very fine tolerances then it’s a miracle that catastrophic failures don’t actually happen a lot more often.
I’m sure I remember the outcome of a plane crash in the US which happened soon after the aircraft had taken off and went into a nosedive was found to be down to one tiny component going wrong which controlled the tale rudder through a movement of a fraction of an inch. Never happened before and the component was a standard design on a lot of planes so they all got replaced.
So having your mammaries excessively heading south would not induce terror? I’m sure Mrs LD would beg to differ.
With the 737’s it was the AOA sensor/instruments coupled with computerised correction programme. The sensors indicated a wrong nose attitude when none existed and constantly corrected what the pilots rightly corrected.