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That seems like an odd message to include in an emergency action system, which by definition is only active in unexpected situations. Is there really no system to confirm if a fuel leak is happening?
Reading articles and seeing videos about airline disasters tends to increase my faith in flying rather than making me more afraid of it. Terrorism or sabotage aside, so many failures have to compound to put a modern airliner in a truly irrecoverable state that it's effectively impossible to happen and not worth my time to even worry about. What times we live in that we can hurtle ourselves across oceans at hundreds o…
Turbulence is an obvious one. Downdrafts another. You can have a perfectly functional aircraft, but if the whole air column it's in goes down faster than the aircraft can climb, the aircraft will go down with the air column no matter what.
Reminds me of an Air Crash Investigation episode: some volcano had erupted, ash was high up in the air, air traffic control wasn't aware of this, and iirc it didn't show up on weather radar or similar systems (or on the planes' systems).
So it looked all clear. Meanwhile the whole plane was getting ash-blasted. To the point that paint was stripped, cockpit windows went from clear to matte, and ash attached itself to engine fan blades. Obviously trouble followed...
Bottom line: the environment a vehicle moves through, is always a factor. Sometimes an unpredictable, uncontrollable and/or hazardous one.
A turbine disc fragment ripped through the entire plane cross-section and exited on the other side. Stunning.
> For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.
there are some crazy talented pilots out there who are able to perform under massive amounts of pressure, United Flight 232 is a more extreme version of this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 >Despite the fatalities, the accident is considered a good example of successful crew resource management. A majority of those aboard survived; experienced test pilots in simulators were unable to…
A turbine disc fragment ripped through the entire plane cross-section and exited on the other side. Stunning.
I like the pragmatic engineering point of view described in the article: > For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-ma...
Doesn't make me feel comfortable about flying.
Reading articles and seeing videos about airline disasters tends to increase my faith in flying rather than making me more afraid of it. Terrorism or sabotage aside, so many failures have to compound to put a modern airliner in a truly irrecoverable state that it's effectively impossible to happen and not worth my time to even worry about. What times we live in that we can hurtle ourselves across oceans at hundreds o…
That assumes the environment the aircraft flies in, behaves predictable. Sometimes it does not. Turbulence is an obvious one. Downdrafts another. You can have a perfectly functional aircraft, but if the whole air column it's in goes down faster than the aircraft can climb, the aircraft will go down with the air column no matter what. Reminds me of an Air Crash Investigation episode: some volcano had erupted, ash was…
Kyra has written so many great articles under her nom de cloud. Trust me, just pick any of them and you will learn something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=admiralcloudberg.medi...
Reading articles and seeing videos about airline disasters tends to increase my faith in flying rather than making me more afraid of it. Terrorism or sabotage aside, so many failures have to compound to put a modern airliner in a truly irrecoverable state that it's effectively impossible to happen and not worth my time to even worry about. What times we live in that we can hurtle ourselves across oceans at hundreds o…