AF 447 Thread No. 9

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@slats11:

I think people said a while back that it was consistent with transiting the weather they encountered.

EDIT : Yes.

Originally Posted by SaturnV

Ozone smell probably came from the Cb overshoot they were flying near. I believe the top of the Cb was estimated by Meteo France as 52000 feet, and by Vasquez as 56000 feet. Ozone is present in significant amounts near the tropopause and the Cb overshoot reached into the ITCZ tropopause by 6,000 feet according to Vasquez.

The PNF seems to have recognized what it was.

Originally Posted by JD-EE

there is no electronics failure that will fill an aircraft cockpit with ozone. Ozone production requires voltages that are not present. When they stink electronics failures are very distinctly not ozone smells. Phenolic (not used anymore) has a distinctive smell when it burns. Various wire insulation materials have their own distinctive smells. Burned transformer varnish and insulation has yet another smell. Burned carbon composition resistor (not used anymore) is yet another smell. Burned metal film resistors have too little smell to worry about. Burned epoxy fiberglass circuit boards are burned epoxy smell. (Don't ask. It was after three months of 60-70 hour work weeks.) The blue smoke from integrated circuits has little or no smell because it's generally magical and in small quantities. (No, you cannot stuff that blue smoke back inside, either.) When an electrolytic capacitor overheats and dies the odor is "impressive"; but, it is not ozone. A modern cockpit has few if any motors present spinning at high currents and high voltages.