BREAKING NEWS: airliner missing within Egyptian FIR
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2) insider with a bomb due to poor security. Egyptian authorities would be keen to play this down. But from the pax list this seems unlikely, as they were all Russian, unless something was planted in the cargo, so it can't be completey ruled out.
A hydraulic failure is my best bet for the main reason at the moment, as the Airbus Rules dont let you do maneuvers on such a high G-Load that the Airframe would break apart.
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The aircraft reportedly went back into service in mid-February 2002, some 3 months later. So even allowing for a bit of initial argy-bargying over the repair scheme and the admin, it sounds like some fairly extensive work needed to be done.
Without looking at the Mx records it's just pure speculation.
Apart from an aft pressure bulkhead or main longeron or other structural failure due to previous damage and subsequent corrosion/fracture propagation, e.g. due to a tail strike...
Let's not rush to conclusions
Let's not rush to conclusions
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black boxes do not tell all, but with absence of other evidence it may be the best we'll get.
Those of us with long memories will remember the accident to GAPEC in Belgium where the rear pressure bulkhead failed due to leakage from an adjacent toilet which cased hidden corrosion. The break up sequence appeared similar.
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res is plane crash site, blue - debris found.
more photos here: http://aviaforum.ru/threads/katastro...a.42685/page-5
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Not saying it is the case here, esp. we don't know much,
if pilot or co-pilot states displeasure with mechanical condition of a commercial airliner, can/will the administrators over ride and insist that the flight be flown as is? I don't think it happens like that in N. America but what about elsewhere?
Feeling bad about this crash, something stinks.
if pilot or co-pilot states displeasure with mechanical condition of a commercial airliner, can/will the administrators over ride and insist that the flight be flown as is? I don't think it happens like that in N. America but what about elsewhere?
Feeling bad about this crash, something stinks.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
WM, there are degrees of displeasure and degrees of aircrew reaction to management pressure.
Not suggesting that here but lots of aircraft are known to be 'rogue' in one way or another. They are not necessarily unsafe just awkward to fly. What the 1st pilot is alleged to have said to his wife is on the lower order. Now if she says he complained to management that is something else.
Not suggesting that here but lots of aircraft are known to be 'rogue' in one way or another. They are not necessarily unsafe just awkward to fly. What the 1st pilot is alleged to have said to his wife is on the lower order. Now if she says he complained to management that is something else.
if pilot or co-pilot states displeasure with mechanical condition of a commercial airliner, can/will the administrators over ride and insist that the flight be flown as is? I don't think it happens like that in N. America but what about elsewhere?
I have personal experience of a small UK scheduled airline that operated for years with no action taken despite numerous reports (some detailed to the nth degree) to the CAA of their appalling maintenance (or rather lack of it), quite apart from the heinous operational offences they committed on a regular basis. Years after I left I was still hearing the same stories from younger colleagues who had worked for them recently. Anyone who flew for that ghastly outfit will name it instantly.
Nothing was done.
