Re the suggestion from Airlandseaman:
I had thought that simulator tests showed the aircraft would gradually lose altitude following fuel exhaustion, following a phugoid flight path, rather than augering in at near Mach 1.
Has there been any new assessments that have changed the existing understanding?
Separately, the French suggestion that the flaperon floated submerged makes no sense. Things either float or sink and it takes ongoing effort to keep an object submerged without sinking.
Last edited by etudiant; 22nd Aug 2015 at 17:20.