In post 120, the discoloration is what nearly molten aluminium looks like.
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Originally Posted by Airbubba
(Post 10657294)
Image circulating on social media, Babak Taghvaee is an expat Irani aviation writer:
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9fda81b853.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....985ec94886.jpg However, as our early Posters will revel in the fact - the pebbles/ stones are the same size as the fragmentation holes on the airframe. We must bear in mind that the whole f'ing World is dumbing down to this sh1T. Post this image? - I want proof it's taken from the same location as the crash site or it's negligible. Can you provide a source please, credible and checkable. |
Originally Posted by GarageYears
(Post 10657183)
Can anyone recall an uncontainable engine failure on a 737 (or equivalent) that:
a) caused a significant inflight fire b) brought the aircraft down c) created a crew load such no contact with ATC occurred - GY |
Possible scenario:
1. Uncontained engine failure of the right engine (e.g. turbine disc, similar to QF 32). Unlikely for a CFM 56 engine but not impossible. 2. Shrapnel from the engine failure damages airframe, tanks, systems, hydraulics and takes out radio, transponder and electronics. 3. Massive fuel leak (similar to QF32) 4. Hydraulic failures make A/C control difficult, therefore wide, descending right turn 5. Aircraft on fire due to fuel leaks 6. Explosion of damaged fuel tank while the plane descends. Explains further, shrapnel like damage. The root cause is unlikely for the CFM 56 but not impossible. The rest is easily possible taking into account the massive damage to the A380 on flight QF32. A little less redundancy (and the A380 has got a lot redundancy compared to a 737) and they would have crashed as well. |
Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner
(Post 10657299)
In post 120, the discoloration is what nearly molten aluminium looks like.
Per |
Originally Posted by Auxtank
(Post 10657309)
What, and it's taken the whole day for them to find this... yeah, right...Social Media is not a medium to be trusted...
However, as our early Posters will revel in the fact - the pebbles/ stones are the same size as the fragmentation holes on the airframe. We must bear in mind that the whole f'ing World is dumbing down to this sh1T. Post this image? - I want proof it's taken from the same location as the crash site or it's bollocks. 2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. |
Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657315)
Possible scenario:
1. Uncontained engine failure of the right engine (e.g. turbine disc, similar to QF 32). Unlikely for a CFM 56 engine but not impossible. 2. Shrapnel from the engine failure damages airframe, tanks, systems, hydraulics and takes out radio, transponder and electronics. 3. Massive fuel leak (similar to QF32) 4. Hydraulic failures make A/C control difficult, therefore wide, descending right turn 5. Aircraft on fire due to fuel leaks 6. Explosion of damaged fuel tank while the plane descends. Explains further, shrapnel like damage. The root cause is unlikely for the CFM 56 but not impossible. The rest is easily possible taking into account the massive damage to the A380 on flight QF32. A little less redundancy (and the A380 has got a lot redundancy compared to a 737) and they would have crashed as well. |
Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. I think it would be wise to avoid making extremely general statements about munitions/weapons that we're not familiar with. |
Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. Social Media at it's best - worst. |
Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. The social media post and the photos are unconvincing. |
Originally Posted by Mark in CA
(Post 10657313)
Boeing recently said it was revamping engine cowlings on the Neo to better contain engine failures. This comes as a result of NTSB recommendations after the fatal accident on Southwest Airlines about a year ago when an engine fan blade broke off in flight, punctured a cabin window and sucked a passenger partially out the window, causing the first US passenger fatality in more than a decade. Does it seem unreasonable to think that such a failure, or worse, could puncture the wing and fuel tank resulting in something like this crash? The NTSB also recommended regular inspections of the fan blades in the CFM engines used on this aircraft type. I wonder if Ukraine Airline is doing these inspections.
- the fan appears to me to be too far forward to be able to puncture a wing tank; - the AD's regarding fan blade attachment on the CFM56 engines have been around for so long that there should be a great deal of awareness around about this issue, to the extent that this shouldn't be an issue anymore; - the two Southwest aircraft which had uncontained engine failures were 10-15 years old, and the present aircraft is only about 3 years old; - from a statistical point of view since several years there is a huge amount of B737's with these engines around, logging a tremendous amount of flying hours, yet such a catastrophic engine failure has never happened.... |
Originally Posted by Auxtank
(Post 10657325)
I think this is a Search Head from one of the undetonated rockets that failed on the earlier rocket strikes.
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What would happen if a pickle fork failed during climb out? Could this result in something similar?
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Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. - regarding point 1, how did that (charred) seeker head then end up on the ground in this state? - regarding point 2, nobody has claimed that if was photographed at the crash site.... |
Originally Posted by Auxtank
(Post 10657325)
The Search Head would be utterly destroyed; by it's own munitions dispersal pattern. I think this is a Search Head from one of the undetonated rockets that failed on the earlier rocket strikes on USA bases. Nothing to do with the aircraft accident.
Social Media at it's best - worst. |
Originally Posted by Thruster763
(Post 10657316)
The exhaust duct is titanium and corrosion resisting steel not aluminium
Per |
Originally Posted by Mark in CA
(Post 10657313)
Boeing recently said it was revamping engine cowlings on the Neo to better contain engine failures. This comes as a result of NTSB recommendations after the fatal accident on Southwest Airlines about a year ago when an engine fan blade broke off in flight, punctured a cabin window and sucked a passenger partially out the window, causing the first US passenger fatality in more than a decade. Does it seem unreasonable to think that such a failure, or worse, could puncture the wing and fuel tank resulting in something like this crash? The NTSB also recommended regular inspections of the fan blades in the CFM engines used on this aircraft type. I wonder if Ukraine Airline is doing these inspections.
100% sure UIA did those inspections. |
Originally Posted by BDAttitude
(Post 10657290)
Probably this one:
And I would think no. The only 'outward peeling' apparent to me (closest to camera) coincides with a score mark that lines up with the tear in the metal - when i first saw this it looked like something scraped along the surface and ripped the metal up... especially as the 'score' stops at the point the metal would have been if it was still flat against the engine... Also how does an uncontained engine failure result in debris creating inward facing holes? It is possible these were inflicted on impact, but the same could be said for the tearing mentioned above. Additionally, an uncontained engine failure could have been the result of external action - so you would have evidence of both outward in and inward out. |
Originally Posted by OldnGrounded
(Post 10657326)
Yes. The chances that the seeker would survive warhead detonation in such good shape don't seem very high. And it shouldn't be anywhere near the crash site.
The social media post and the photos are unconvincing. But agreed, no evidence is there to show a link in time and location to the Tehran crash site. The picture could be from anywhere and anytime. |
Originally Posted by CityofFlight
(Post 10657190)
Quite the debris field.
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Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. I tend to disagree TOR | Lugansk News Today http://lugansk-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/InRussia.jpg |
Originally Posted by Interflug
(Post 10657351)
9M331 missile heads look like that after explosion of the charge below them. Pictures can be found on the internet from combat use e.g. recently in Syria.
But agreed, no evidence is there to show a link in time and location to the Tehran crash site. The picture could be from anywhere and anytime. TOR SAM | Lugansk News Today https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c1ac2a5ac3.jpg |
The warhead on the missile is designed to cause an annular blast throwing its folded continuous rod outwards, the explosive force travelling axially towards the seeker head will be significantly reduced. The bolted structure of the seeker is pretty strong, it would not be damaged easily.
Other photos taken near the crash site show an area with 2 parallel low concrete walls quite close together, it is possible that the seeker could have lodged in the airframe and then fallen out during the ground impact sequence. This is a statement of possibility, like everyone else here I have no magical insight. |
I would have thought given the acrimony between Iran and the US at the minute that all sorts of surveillance data would available to the US that would have quickly indicated a rocket/missile launch in Iran. Even a quick event such as this would not have gone unnoticed I would have thought thus, unless the US is sitting on it's hands (data), they would quickly have confirmed or discounted the missile theory.
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Originally Posted by Interflug
(Post 10657351)
9M331 missile heads look like that after explosion of the charge below them. Pictures can be found on the internet from combat use e.g. recently in Syria.
But agreed, no evidence is there to show a link in time and location to the Tehran crash site. The picture could be from anywhere and anytime. |
Originally Posted by Airbubba
(Post 10657294)
Image circulating on social media, Babak Taghvaee is an expat Irani propaganda writer:
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Originally Posted by ErwinS
(Post 10657347)
Boeing Neo??/ Ehmmm you mean MAX.
100% sure UIA did those inspections. That being said, the chance there is any connection between this crash and the Southwest fan blade issue is close to zero. |
Originally Posted by C441
(Post 10657360)
I would have thought given the acrimony between Iran and the US at the minute that all sorts of surveillance data would available to the US that would have quickly indicated a rocket/missile launch in Iran. Even a quick event such as this would not have gone unnoticed I would have thought thus, unless the US is sitting on it's hands (data), they would quickly have confirmed or discounted the missile theory.
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Originally Posted by Thruster763
(Post 10657343)
Well the pictured head is certainly consistent with a TOR -M1 missile and is not from a ballistic missile (too small). There is no reason why the seeker head of the missile would be distroyed in the detonation. It is ahead of the charge and from the photo has a fairly substantial looking domed structure at the rear. It is surprising what close to the charge will survive a detonation. Lots of forensics from detonations have led to convictions in the past. I have personally seen an optical seeker head thar survived detonation remarkably well.
The assumptions from this seem to suggest this particular round wasn't a dud ie the charge ignited and that since it is a missile defense system, it is not a ballistic missile and is therefore very unlikely to be an image from 'dud' rockets launched by Iran on American bases in Baghdad. So this seeker head had a starring role in something. But until we can determine where and when it was found, there remains no connection to this 'accident'. |
Originally Posted by Back door
(Post 10657372)
How will the FAA or Boeing even get the information required to make an informed decision to check the engines if Iran won't cooperate. I am thinking a fleet wide check might come up soon if even the slimmest of information indicates a uncontained engine failure.....
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Originally Posted by C441
(Post 10657360)
I would have thought given the acrimony between Iran and the US at the minute that all sorts of surveillance data would available to the US that would have quickly indicated a rocket/missile launch in Iran. Even a quick event such as this would not have gone unnoticed I would have thought thus, unless the US is sitting on it's hands (data), they would quickly have confirmed or discounted the missile theory.
If it wasn't a rocket/missile then the US have nothing to gain by saying so at the moment. The truth will come out in the investigation, but in the meantime there is no harm to the US position of leaving the cause of the crash as an open question, especially whilst there is speculation of an Iranian own goal. And possibly the US wouldn't want to reveal exactly what their capabilites are at the moment when it relates to looking at things going on inside Iran. |
Originally Posted by Coborn C6
(Post 10657390)
The US appear to be willing to let things die down - hence Trump's "standing down" remark. If they have evidence it was a rocket/missile then saying so now could re-ignite the tension. The evidence could still come out in due course as the investigation progresses.
If it wasn't a rocket/missile then the US have nothing to gain by saying so at the moment. The truth will come out in the investigation, but in the meantime there is no harm to the US position of leaving the cause of the crash as an open question, especially whilst there is speculation of an Iranian own goal. And possibly the US wouldn't want to reveal exactly what their capabilites are at the moment when it relates to looking at things going on inside Iran. Agree. All sorts of contradictory statements being made by Iran and Ukraine, social media all over the place, phony attacks on US air bases where it seems missiles were deliberately targeted onto vacant areas of the airfields to avoid casualties, and no doubt a US surveillance system in overdrive that would have spotted a mouse running for cover and would certainly know the whereabouts of any missile system launchers and command modules and if they had been fired. We may not be in a hot war, but the only thing we can be sure of is that old adage: "Truth is the first casualty of war". |
Originally Posted by patrickal
(Post 10657270)
Isn't it quite possible that if a portion (or all) of a wing failed at that point due to aerodynamic forces, that the rapid release of fuel in the slipstream would create a fireball which could be perceived as an explosion? Much like the fireball which erupted at the breakup of the Space Shuttle Challenger was caused by the failure of the main tank. In that case, It appeared to be an explosion, but in true defined terms, it was not.
PJ2 |
You can understand that due to the sheer volume of 737 flights worldwide on a daily basis, this devastating crash of a 3 year old airframe in a part of the world that has seen an unprecedented amount of alarming activity in recent days is being regarded by some as slightly more than coincidental.
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Originally Posted by tdracer
(Post 10657380)
If it was an uncontained engine failure, the high energy debris will remain with +/- 5 degrees of the plane of rotation. Any engine debris outside that arc would have insufficient energy to penetrate the aluminum structure, so any shrapnel holes outside that arc didn't come from the engine.
Wether that’s relevant to this accident, I don’t know. Happy to be corrected. |
Since this is the clueless speculation thread: Why could it not be both? An engine malfunction and an error of the air defence? |
MH17 damage report
There is a comprehensive report for the MH17 shootdown that explains the consequences of a SAM strike.
https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/med...pendix_nlr.pdf |
Sorry gents, but the video posted everywhere showing the last 30 seconds of this tragic flight shows everything but an engine fire. The all thing is a fireball breaking up several times before final impact.
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Originally Posted by EDML
(Post 10657317)
1. After the missile exploded the search head will be gone. Destroyed, evaporated, whatever.
2. The search head would be found where the missile hit - many miles away (if it was a missile) and not at the crash site. I would not however expect to find the guidance section with the wreckage unless it got embedded with the aircraft. |
Originally Posted by Interflug
(Post 10657363)
Since this is the clueless speculation thread:
Why could it not be both? An engine malfunction and an error of the air defence? 737 turns back with engine failure, one engine on fire, looking like a rocket in the night sky. Now heading TOWARD Tehran coming from a western direction. SAM batteries around Tehran on highest alert, expecting incoming retaliation strike, less than two hours after they started a volley of rockets toward US bases in Iraq. ...
Originally Posted by Avman
(Post 10657432)
Actually, quite a plausible scenario!
I can see where the gap between the last ADS-B position and the debris field implies a possible right turn back toward the field. But this may have been after an initial explosion as the plane fluttered down out of control in flames. Kinda like the story that has already run about how 'the pilot' avoided the madrassa and crashed the plane into a soccer field instead. A journalist from an opposition party media operation claims to have verified the turn back to the field through his online forensics: https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....10fca03722.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....665915f9f0.jpg |
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