Originally Posted by JD-EE
For example, The fact that they built a 40 nm search radius for an event that went down in a violent storm in 4 minutes is just a small indictment of BEA's motives and expertise. Figure the plane's ground speed in 4 minutes. Figure it was PROBABLY (only probably) below a few thousand feet at the time of one of the last messages and guess how far the plane could be from the LKP. I am figuring 8 to 12nm. I am guessing more or less North. If they REALLY had claimed finding it 30nm South in a compact debris field I'd have raised holy heck about that.
To be fair they, and the Brazilian Navy, were originally trying to guess where the last message came from - based on 4 mins at 10 NM/min from the last position report, which was 3NM 'left of track'. As repeated recently had it just been dual engine failure the aircraft could have glided much further and possibly back towards Brazil, but it appears that never taken seriously.
Originally Posted by
henra
...If a Cb shears something off it would rather be the HS...
Which bit of F-GZCP knocked the tail off F-GTAM on 17.08.2006 ?
The attachment points of the A330 do look like the are specially reinforced compared to similar early designs?
Photos: Airbus A330-203 Aircraft Pictures | !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The natural feature was then incorporated into AF's paint job.
Perhaps they should start to search for the remains of half of it "
UNDER THE FOOT OF THE BEAR" (Nevil Shute)