Air France Flight 447's harrowing end

The black boxes from Air France Flight 447 have been recovered, nearly two years after it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Nancy Cordes reports on the final minutes as pilots struggled to regain control.

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[eugeniusbastard]

@PInk77W1 A plane accelerating towards the deck at a high velocity as AF447 will cause negative vertical g forces to be felt by the passengers. I am not a high school drop out and even I know this.

[rayjaydeseintay]

@PInk77W1 I believe he was referencing the accelerations encountered due to rapid changes in pitch and the rolling that occurred upon aerodynamic stall. He could also be referencing the _significant_ acceleration encountered upon impact.

[maydayfire]

retards on the control

[firestarloverwarrior]

i remember that... i was drawing a plane when my mother told me about it.

[LesTroisOiseaux]

The BEA is too closely linked, or should we say, part of the French government, to be trusted with an unbiased report.

Have no doubt, the French government wants nothing to affect sales, especially from a company, EADS, in which it has a controlling interest.

And, it may not be a mystery most if not all incidents involving Airbus aircraft are blamed squarely on their pilots and others and rarely the manufacturer. No less, in all their hubris, Airbus aircraft are the best!!

[organfreak]

@PInk77W1

I'm sorry, but that's just incorrect. The airplane was fully stalled and fell 38,000 to the water. Get BEA interim report No3, it's available for download, and read it. I have. Yes, the plane "was capable of flying," but only if stall recovery was initiated, and early-on. They never even recognized the stall. No moon, no light, no visible horizon....and they had no idea which instruments were lying and which ones to trust.

[PInk77W1]

@organfreak it didnt fall in the traditional sense. it more or less flew into the ocean. Usually a plane that "falls" is broken. This plane was perfectly capable of flying except for the pilot pulling back on the stick for 3.5 minutes. 

[1greenMitsi]

@organfreak Ive been watching dogfights for too long....so they drowned? oh great... I wouldve prefered to pass out personally..

[organfreak]

@1greenMitsi

Search for "BEA Interim Report No 3" (PDF)

Once you grab the report, look at the charts in Appendix 4 beginning on page 106 (BEA's page numbering, not Acrobat's) The entire vertical acceleration graph for the accident is the blue line 3rd from the bottom.

[1greenMitsi]

@organfreak dont worry about the source, just get a physics tutor to explain it to you :)

[organfreak]

@1greenMitsi

And the source of this quote is....?

[1greenMitsi]

@organfreak

'The basic rules of thumb, though, are that objects will have a higher terminal velocity when: there is more of it, making a heavier weight; the density of the gas it’s falling through is lower, as in upper atmosphere; the object has a lower drag coefficient, meaning it has been built to be more streamlined, like a raindrop; or there is less area to drag, usually meaning the object is more dense.'

I googled it...and like i said, Physics 1.01...