KD in CA Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 "missing" far out over the Atlantic. Sounds pretty grim... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090601/ap_on_...ca/brazil_plane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 with no distress call and no locater beacon whatever happened had to have happened very suddenly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damj Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 with no distress call and no locater beacon whatever happened had to have happened very suddenly. Sounds like an electrical malfunction, possibly from a lightning strike. Doesn't sound good that they'll find any survivors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerball Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 I'll ask the stupid question. If you're flying in the middle of the Atlantic and you see a thunderstorm ahead on your instrumentation why do you fly through it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 ugh, my heart sinks every time i hear/read a story like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 very tragic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellDressed Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Yea, I saw that earlier on the NYT web site; trajic news. It's also a holiday in France today as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 ugh, my heart sinks every time i hear/read a story like this. Yes. Evidently, an automatic device sent out a signal of trouble, but it shortly ceased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Yes. Evidently, an automatic device sent out a signal of trouble, but it shortly ceased. i read that too. not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in Chicago Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dog14787 Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 ugh, my heart sinks every time i hear/read a story like this. mine also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 I had a dream/nitemare Saturday morning that a plane crashed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites Bay Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 I'm in Belgium on business, and just got on a news webite for the first time in two days. Oh my God. I really, really, really miss my wife and kids. All those children now without parents. I'm not looking forward to the ride home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britbillsfan Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I'll ask the stupid question. If you're flying in the middle of the Atlantic and you see a thunderstorm ahead on your instrumentation why do you fly through it? Planes are hit by lightning all the time. Normally it is no biggie. So lightning may have contributed to the crash but it is unlikely to be the sole cause. So thunderstorms are not normally a major problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Planes are hit by lightning all the time. Normally it is no biggie. So lightning may have contributed to the crash but it is unlikely to be the sole cause. So thunderstorms are not normally a major problem. I suspect it was more the updraft/downdraft associated with T storms then lightning itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Pan Am crew flying in the opposite direction reported burning debris in the Atlantic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyemike Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Terribly sad. And unless the wreckage and black box can be found, we will never know what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britbillsfan Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I suspect it was more the updraft/downdraft associated with T storms then lightning itself. Sounds like something pretty catastophic, probably the plane was hit by more than one thing going wrong in very quick succession, but it is rare for planes to just drop out of the sky like this, whatever the conditions. Taking off and landing, on the other hand, are where things fairly regularly go breasts up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dib Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Terribly sad. And unless the weeckage and black box can be found, we will never know what happened. The Atlantic is about 14,000ft deep there. Unless they can pin point the flight recorder no one is sending a submersible out . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUFootball29 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I suspect it was more the updraft/downdraft associated with T storms then lightning itself. I was thinking the same thing when they initially said lightning. Lightning strikes rarely do major damage to a plane, but some violent winds in a storm can toss a plane about. My guess they hit the worst conditions of a storm at exactly the right time to bring it down. Hopefully they can find something to bring some closure to the families Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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