Article

2015-01-06 Southeast Asia

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2015-01-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A320-200 fleet grounding soon to follow ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-06 06:16|| 2015-01-06 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Icing, like the Air France 447 crash, where the pitot tubed iced up in a storm. Without the pitot tubes, the flight computer didn’t have enough data to fly the airplane, so the computer disconnected itself and the pilots inadvertently stalled the aircraft for 30,000 feet, right into the ocean.

Posted by Bobby 2015-01-06 10:09|| 2015-01-06 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 tail section could be the empennage (that aft end of the bird containing the rudder, vertical stabilizer, elevators and horizontal stabilizer) not like the Airbus that lost its entire vertical stab/rudder over New Your several years ago. in flight forces probably caused the entire aircraft to break up in flight and this is the remnants of the aft end.

I also suspect pitot static issues along with the computer.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-01-06 11:08|| 2015-01-06 11:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Bobby, I seem to recall a plane in brazil with a bug nest in the pitot tube resulting in a similar conclusion.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2015-01-06 12:49|| 2015-01-06 12:49|| Front Page Top

23:37 European Conservative
23:24 Rambler in Virginia
23:21 Heriberto B. Hayes6847
23:14 Kofi Whinesh8899
22:52 Kofi Whinesh8899
22:01 3dc
21:53 Silentbrick
21:52 JohnQC
21:10 badanov
21:09 badanov
20:46 BrerRabbit
20:12 Glenmore
19:48 Airandee
19:40 Chunky Cravimble9374
19:35 Silentbrick
17:30 anon1
16:12 3dc
16:11 Shipman
16:10 3dc
16:08 Shipman
15:59 USN, Ret.
15:50 Ebbang Uluque6305
15:43 Grunter
15:37 Rambler in Virginia