Air India Crash
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The way it stopped ascending and then descended made me think of a car that has run out of fuel, or fuel lines to engine are blocked.
Flying has no doubt many other failure possibilities, but that's how it looks from that CCTV footage to me
Flying has no doubt many other failure possibilities, but that's how it looks from that CCTV footage to me
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What he jumped out whilst plane was airborne?
I'm pressing X to doubt the 'jumped out' claims. He'd have had to realise what was happening, somehow open the door? and time his exit perfectly to hit something that would allow him to get up and walk away from the scene relatively unscathed.
He has apparently spoken to the local press from the hospital, but he didn't mention anything about jumping.
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You can’t open the doors in flight.
I mean he couldn't have left it much later, the thing blew up, you would imagine a very short time after hitting the ground.
Well if you seen the fireball surely he did
That's at cruising altitude when the pressure prevents it though no?
I don't as thinking that, unless they disarmed the locks last few seconds.
Well the front section may have detatched and been in a place away from the main explosion more rearwards?
There's not much else it could be at this point. Even in warm conditions, two engines would let you accelerate enough to stay airborne. The cause of the engine failure is the mystery. Fuel contamination, catastrophic elec/software failure, or... well, the sinister option.
Seat 11A is business class at the back, just at the point where the wing leading edge connects to the body. I'd suspect the front spar of the wing goes under and that spot has quite a bit of structural integrity. Being in a business class seat ('capsule' area) it may be that protected him a little more than a normal seat.
In short I don't think he had any ability to move at the point of the accident so I suspect he simply got thrown clear on breakup before the fuel ignited.
No sign of that on the video.
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The aircraft came down with its nose pitched upwards. With his seat being forward of the wing, where the bulk of the fuel tanks are, I guess it’s possible that as the aircraft that hit the building, the forward section may have been carried forward by it’s momentum, and clear enough of the fire for people to have a chance at surviving this. Hopefully there’ll be more survivors.
I would imagine it would struggle to make the 2.4% climb gradient with the gear down, but it should still climb, there should be enough wriggle room in the perf. calcs. for that. Also you should see a fairly substantial amount of rudder if one engine has gone.
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Any one ere going on a plane soon ?
It's like a crash at 150-180mph in a tin so if it continued on it's like to have some structural strength, but it's not going to be pretty.
It could be that his section came to a stop, he jumped out the back where the body would have been (assuming it was embedded in buildings).
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If the plane had gotten airborne it would have been travelling well in excess of 100mph. No way anybody survived jumping from that. Also, you can't open the doors in flight, either pressure or door interlocks prevent it. He managed to get out after the fuselage broke up. (If the story is true)