carnage
of course that is how mode c works, but could this have been the reason the legacy pilots are alleged to have shutoff the transponder?
as to lowering gear on a 737 emergency descent, it is an option, but one must reduce to gear speed first.
and I posted earlier slicing into the windshield/canopy/cockpit might have been part of the equation.
I have heard that new planes may have altimeters improperly set and the pilots didn't catch it on checklist.
AS to kinetic energy and all that JAZZ, please remember that a C172 brought down a PSA B727 near San Diego about 34 years ago, someone even got a pulitzer prize winning picture of it in flames. A c172 has much less mass and speed behind it than a legacy so it can happen.
Last edited by jondc9; 2nd Oct 2006 at 10:25.