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Old 22nd Jun 2009, 16:49
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the two leaks about the autopsies are separated by several days: the first group of autopsies showed traumas consistant with a free fall and a high velocity impact with the sea surface, the second group of autopsies (and leakage) suggested that some passengers impacted the sea surface sitting in their chair. While we must certainly be cautious with these non official forensic data, these are not necessarily contradictory: some passengers may have been lost in mid-flight (with the VS and then the rear part of the aircraft) while the others might have continued their flight with the main part of the aircraft toward the "crash area". I was suggesting that multiple biases on the airspeed may have triggered a stall after ou around 02:14Z, a stall accompanied by a right bank/sideslip. to me, this is necessary to explain
-that the ACARS satcom link was severed: the attitude of the A330 was exceeding the steering angular range of the satcom beam,
-the exiting of the flight enveloppe and the bad situation that may have led to a destruction of the VS
-the drift of the bodies/debris and where they were collected (but there is here a high degree of uncertainty about the prevailing surface currents and surface winds)
As for the wasted fluids leakage, we are not definitive about the source of this hypothesis but is it possible to assess its plausibility as a contributing factor to a structural failure ?
Jeff
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