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Tragedy over the Hudson

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Two aircraft collided on the low altitude over Hudson river on a clear, sunny day. It is a terrible tragedy. Lives of 9 people lost in a fiery crash. This accident touched hearts and souls of a lot of people. You might feel [...]

August 11, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Aviation, News  No Comments

Air France Flight 447: Was It a Fatal Glitch?

Investigators probing the crash of Air France Flight 447 are focusing on the possibility that equipment malfunction may have caused the plane essentially to crash itself. A sheaf of fault messages sent automatically to Air France’s maintenance department show that instruments aboard the Airbus 330 were reporting different airspeeds, possibly because precipitation had clogged sensors known as Pitot tubes. The pilot and copilot receive airspeed data collected by separate sensors, meaning that if either failed, the two pilots likely received conflicting information. Those discrepancies could have caused either the crew or automatic control systems to make wrong decisions about how fast to fly the plane as it headed into heavy weather.


June 6, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Aviation, News  Comments Closed


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