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MH370: Fragment Is From Missing Flight
hcs_$reboot writes: The plane part (the flaperon) that was found on a beach in the Indian Ocean on Réunion island was determined to be part of MH370, the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago. Some experts have postulated that the damage suggests the flaperon may have been deployed when the plane hit the water, meaning that someone in the cockpit was consciously manipulating the controls. The Malaysian Prime Minister said at a press conference "We now have physical evidence that ... Flight MH370 tragically ended in the Southern Indian Ocean.".
You're saying that a fragment from flight MH370 is from the missing flight MH370? That's amazing.
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Airplanes are one of the safer modes of travel. Why? Because we investigate all crashes thoroughly and try to prevent the same crash from happening again. If a plane crashes now it's an event, and one that had to have multiple failure modes because a single failure is no longer enough to take down a plane.
Also, some people thought the plane got hijacked, or flown to some secret desert base. Some subset of those people (but not all) may be convinced their family is truly gone, and be able to take next steps.
As an engineer I can say for certain this piece is critical. However, Once the flaperon breaks loose, the appropriate technical nomenclature is a flaperoff.
for any americans worried about this crucial aviation component, rest easy. You're probably still in the terminal, safe from harm in the midst of either an endless layover or overbooked flight. Once its emerged from the latest bankruptcy merger, your planes flaperons will continue to function to the highest standard that can be enforced by a regulatory agency with no real power.
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flown to some secret desert base
Flown to a secret base under the sea. I know, I know. Oh, oh, oh...
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Ewwww.....
If you RTFA, there's a link to another article that states their reasons.
http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...
Based on preliminary observations, Former NTSB Aviation Safety Director Tom Haueter says the part –- identified by Malaysia Airlines as a “flaperon,” a wing component used for balance –- appears to have a pristine leading edge. The rear section, called the trailing edge, appears to be missing.
“To me, it indicates that it was not a high speed, high angle impact, because if that had happened, the leading edge would be crushed,” Haueter, an ABC News contributor, said. “What I don’t see is a severe nose down impact.”
The condition of the debris suggests the flaps were down at the time of the crash, possibly indicating that “somebody's controlling the aircraft,” when it hit the water, said Haueter.
“The airplane wouldn’t have done that on its own,” he added. But “you’re trying to land or ditch the airplane – you’d have the flaps folded down.”
And more to the point, people are confused about what needed to happen. The steel beams didn't need to "melt," per se. They just needed to soften enough to then buckle, and that's that.
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Not so. More people get killed commuting to and from airports than they do flying, even though that's the shorter distance.
And one of the more recent air crashes had 2 casualties. One of whom was run over by a rescue vehicle while on the ground.
Airplane crash rates are at an all-time low and survivability is at an all-time high. However, the sheer number of people who can be killed in one incident makes them noteworthy.
Kind of like the WTC attack. Considerably more people died on the US highways that year than did in the planes and towers, but 9/11 caused us to shred a good-sized chunk of the 200+ year old hard-won freedom that Bin Laden so hated, whereas we didn't bat an eye at the highway carnage. Unless we happened to either be involved in one, related to one or rubbernecked one.
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You do understand that ocean currents are not straight lines, right? For chrissake it's taken years for the Tohoku tsunami's wreckage to make it the Pacific Northwest.
My favorite example is the shipping container full of rubber ducks that an oceanographer tracked for 15 years! We may be finding pieces for decades.
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I thing right ones are better. Wright ones too.
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The heat from the fire is insufficient to make the molten piles of metal found. It's physically impossible. Idiots would take that as "proof" the fire was man-made. Non-idiots would mention that the potential energy stored by the building being tall would have had to be dissipated in some way, or it would have fallen to the core of the earth. Turns out the PE of the building was converted to KE as it fell, and that KE was converted to heat with the sudden stop at the end. It was the act of the falling of the building that melted the puddles of metal, not the fire. Human brains don't work well at extremes. We interpolate well, but extrapolate poorly. One of the tallest buildings on the planet falling is outside "common sense". So anyone who appeals to it as a reason for why or how has proven (to me) that they are wrong.
https://www.google.co.nz/searc... And as I mentioned elsewhere, a warm day can warp and bend steel to the point it "collapses" so "melt" is not required for structural failure. Anyone who claims that is lying.
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I think you're failing to understand how the statistics work. It doesn't matter how the deaths are spread out along the millions of miles, it's the same number of deaths.
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Reports of which were highly exaggerated, and the reality of which has been explained many times by people who don't have a need to cartoon-quality conspiracy theories in order to distract them from their boring existence.
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From my 9-11 experience....I watched the news about 13 min before the second plane hit and for hours afterward. There was a newsman on the ground who asked a chief about building 7 needing to be demo'd and the chief, obviously alarmed that the newsman might be creating an unsubstantiated panic, almost called him an idiot and said there is no reason for that nor would there be based on conditions, finally that he had not heard anything like that and it was absurd. I have not met another person who remembers that shocking exchange nor have I seen the footage anywhere. It happened and I do not understand how such a national broadcast seemingly disappeared and is never spoken about again.
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> The twin towers was the first case when the design explicitly considered impact from the largest jet airliner of the time (DC9) fully loaded and the subsequent fire
So, what you're saying is they didn't consider the impact from an aircraft 8 feet taller, 67 feet wider, 55 feet longer, three hundred thousand pounds heavier and carrying sixty thousand gallons more fuel?
the 200+ year old hard-won freedom that Bin Laden so hated,
Please spare us the outdated cold-war rhetoric. Al-Qaeda and the Mujahideen started in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Their anger with the US had nothing to do with domestic freedoms and everything to do with US foreign policy. What do the Soviets and US have in common? Not freedom. Al Qaeda was not bombing other liberal democracies. Yes they are horrible nasty people, but they really couldn't care less about your "freedoms".
Sorry for the OT rant. Yes, airlines are safe, and I'd happily fly on Malaysian airlines again. (Its their neighbours in Indonesia who have the relatively poor safety record.)