Torque...:
- Most newspapers are today saying that the plane broke up in mid air. How is this possible? I always thought that airplanes could withstand all kind of punishements even fly inside the meanest cells (after all C130's do fly inside hurricanes) without breaking apart.
- Why did the crew decide to proceed inside a cell/storm that by looking at Tim Vasquez analysis for example, looked like a monster?
- There is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE that the plane broke up in the air. Media are picking up info, among other sources, on forums like this one !!!... where all kinds of pros and not so pros make comments, speculate, emit possibilities, pretend they are experts etc...
It is majorly BOGUS !!
C130 and other hurricane chaser airplanes are structurally MODIFIED to withstand extreme turbulence stresses. That's why they can fly inthere !
A civil airplane is not so modified and possibly could exceed its structural limits under certain circumstances, which are linked to LOSS OF CONTROL in flight.
An Airbus has Load factor protection in normal flight, and only looses this protection when Flight controls systems are severely degraded.
Load factor will however not protect them from other structural exceedance such as flying too fast (ie the never exceed speed)
Without going into too many details here....of course.
- There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that the crew flew into a cell.
- There is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that there was any monster cell (typhoon type)
Even Tim Vasquez is being careful with his model.
Weather analysts report that the Convective weather pattern that night in that area did not present anything out of the ordinary, everyday equatorial storm system.
I'm French....can you tell ?
