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Old 11th Jun 2009, 23:02
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As far as the ACARS messaging if they could send out an acars message they could easily send out a gps position on say a 5 minute interval.
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No Will...

I have already answered that... the fall does not always remove clothes, certainly not at free-fall 170 mph. Which is why I used the term 'surprisingly'

Originally Posted by The Tale of the Comet - Derek Dempster
But why had the bodies been found in such different states of undress? To find out the experts dreamt up a test as elaborate and detailed in its way as the experiments on the Comet (airframe) itself.

With plastic & sorbo-rubber they made eight life-like dummies whose limbs moved as freely as any human's and dressed them like ordinary aircraft passengers in underwear, shirts, two- and three piece suits or sports jackets and trousers cut from cloth varying from tweeds to worsteds and even ties and socks to match. But the attention to detail did not end there: they went so far as to inject some of their own travelling habits into the experiments, like undoing the bottom waistcoat buttons on some of the dummies, giving one a fawn woolen cardigan, another a sleeveless grey pullover, and so on. And then, just to add that extra touch of realism, they undid the clasp and top two buttons of the eight dummy's trousers like a man who likes to loosen his belly for travelling.

The plan was to drop the dummies from aircraft flying at different altitudes to see what effect the fall and impact with the ground to see what the fall and impact with the ground would have on their clothes. the first one was pushed out at 10,000 ft and only lost a shoe - on impact!
The second went out at 12,000 ft, lost ashoe on the descent and another when he hit the ground. But his clothes stayed on.
The third, fourth and fifth dummies were dropped into ten feet of water off Pendine Sands in wales. they were left to float, however, until the ebbing tide left them high and dry. Not one lost his clothes in the 12000 ft drop, but when they were picked up some time later all showed signs of losing them - the third in moderation, the fourth and fifth without question. For some unaccountable reason, number five's cardigan & trousers were torn to shreds, although his sports jacket, found well of the shoulders and half-way down the body, was hardly damaged.

The last three dummies - six, seven and eight - were packed into the bomb compartment of a high-flying bomber and dropped over land from 30,000 ft, the height at which both Comets were believed to have come to grief. All were badly damaged by the impact with the ground, but though they dropped a distance of nearly 6 miles and reached a speed of 170 mph, none lost his clothes; and unbelievable though it may seem, none of the garments was spoiled.

From these observations, Farnborough naturally concluded that th Comet victims had not been unclothed by the fall, but that lapping waves of the Mediterranean had undressed them. Slowly, the pieces of the complex Comet jig-saw puzzzle were beginning to fit into place
Admiited, people dress differently and lighter today, but then the bodies inthis case were in the sea longer than the Comet disasters, and a much rougher sea too!
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What would you do?

Assuming that it was pitot-static system icing;
Assuming that airspeed indication became unreliable;
Assuming that AF447 entered into a spiral dive;

What would/could you do as the pilot to get out of the situation?

What could we learn from this unfortunate accident?
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Old 11th Jun 2009, 23:05
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Harry, there is a difference between accelerating to terminal velocity and decelerating from 400 knots to Terminal velocity.
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Indeed Will...

But then I see no reference to them being dropped from a hot-air balloon. They were dropped from a bomber, perhaps a V-bomber's bomb-bay, travelling at that sort of speed - though there is no specific information to that effect other than it was a 'high-flying' bomber - 30,00 ft is too high for a piston engined bomber, so humour me and assume it was a V-bomber and at speed not about to stall...

They did however seem to be pretty sure that 'lapping' waves can 'surprisingly' undress someone in a couple of days, as they weren't denuded after a fall.

So if it really matters, we can conclude that we can't conclude what did it - if the reports are correct, which I imagine they basically are.

PS. I was just simply adding some (rarely) known facts to a previous question about their reported clothing states
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Postado por: marceloambrosio

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A coleta dos corpos é uma parte dura da missão de resgate e que exige um preparo emocional e psicológico muito grande por parte dos militares envolvidos na busca pelos destroços do A330. Em acidentes aéreos graves, esse trabalho exige um esforço físico brutal e um autocontrole impressionante. Conheço vários militares da FAB que atuaram nesse tipo de missão. Alguns me disseram que torcem para que a busca por corpos nos destroços se dê em uma área carbonizada pela explosão da própria aeronave - o fogo higieniza o ambiente, eliminando os insetos e os odores da decomposição. Isso não ocorreu, por exemplo, com as vítimas do desastre com o Boeing da Gol no Mato Grosso, cujo drama final envolveu um mergulho em parafuso encerrado já perto do solo, quando a estrutura não aguentou a força G da curva e se partiu em vários pedaços grandes. E o trabalho do Salvaero ali foi um dos mais difíceis já realizados, completado com um resultado impressionante: todos os corpos foram recuperados após meses de árdua tarefa. E tempos depois, os peritos que precisavam avaliar os destroços ainda encontravam um ambiente impossível de atuar.

No acidente com o A330, a água substituiu o fogo nessa relativa preparação do ambiente para as equipes de resgate. Mas mesmo assim, segundo militares envolvidos, o recolhimento dos restos mortais de passageiros e tripulantes - o uso da palavra corpos é uma janela semântica para horrorizar menos quem precisa acompanhar o processo ou chora pela perda traumática - tem sido uma penosa sucessão de chocantes reproduções da violência da tragédia. Um dos militares com acesso às equipes de resgate me contou que os corpos estão muito mutilados, vários se apresentam desmembrados e sem cabeça - restando apenas o tronco - e irreconhecíveis por características visuais. A definição da identidade se dará mesmo pelo DNA. Em alguns pouquíssimos cadáveres, mais preservados, os militares já encontraram a primeira e definitiva versão para os instantes finais do vôo AF447: corpos completamente nus confirmam que o Airbus se desintegrou no ar antes do choque com o mar. Se os cálculos da razão de descida - que em condições normais fariam o jato bater na água a 215 km do ponto inicial de alarme, e não a 70 km - mostravam um angulo elevado de mergulho, a prova cabal e técnica está nessa descoberta.

De acordo com especialistas em resgate, um dos principais indicativos de uma despressurização violenta decorrente de ruptura estrutural é encontrar corpos sem qualquer peça de roupa. No acidente de Mato Grosso, alguns assim estavam presos em galhos de árvores. A explicação traduz bem a aterradora experiência: quando a cabine se rompe, a descompensação na pressão provoca uma enorme corrente de ar, que arrasta partes do interior da cabine mesmo que estejam firmemente presas ao chão. Cadeiras, forros de paredes, estruturas das janelas, painéis do teto, enfim, tudo é arrancado numa implosão. O repuxo ainda rasga e tritura todas as roupas das pessoas, mesmo que estejam firmemente amarradas nos assentos - que só resistem por pouco tempo. O consolo, se é que se pode dizer assim, é que a morte ocorre em poucos segundos. Pelo menos no caso desse corpo encontrado sem todas as roupas, a passagem para outra dimensão serviu para elucidar mais um capítulo dessa trágica etapa da história da aviação.
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The collection of bodies is a hard mission that requires an emotional and psychological preparation for the soldiers involved in the search of the wreckage of the A330. ....




In the accident of the A330, ... one of the soldiers that has access to teams of rescue told me that the bodies are mutilated, without legs and arms and even without head - leaving only the trunk - and visually unrecognizable . The identity will be made by the DNA. In a few corpses, preserved more, the soldiers realized the final moments of flight AF447: completely naked bodies confirmed that the Airbus disintegrated in the air before the impact with the sea. If the calculations of the rate of descent ( which under normal conditions would have made the jet hit the water distant 215 km from the starting point of alarm, not to 70 km) - showed a high angle of dip, and this is a proof of the discovery.


According to experts in rescue, a key indicative of a violent depressurization due to structural breaks is to find bodies without any piece of clothing. At the accident of Mato Grosso, some bodies were found like that in the branches of the trees. The explanation reflects the terrifying experience: when the cabin is broken, the decompensation in pressure causes a huge current of air, which pulls into the interior of the cabin even if they are firmly stuck to the floor. Chairs, lining of walls, structures, windows, panels of the roof, finally, everything is pulled out in the implosion. I alsol rips and grinds the clothes, even if they are strongly tied to seats - only resist for a short time. Death occurs in seconds. At least in the case of the body found without any clothes, the transition to another dimension served to clarify one more chapter of this tragic step in the history of aviation



I underline THE, as during the blog the author makes us believe that all were found without clothes, but later he says THE, implying only one.
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Old 11th Jun 2009, 23:36
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According to experts in rescue, a key indicative of a violent depressurization due to structural breaks is to find bodies without any piece of clothing. At the accident of Mato Grosso, some bodies were found like that in the branches of the trees. The explanation reflects the terrifying experience: when the cabin is broken, the decompensation in pressure causes a huge current of air, which pulls into the interior of the cabin even if they are firmly stuck to the floor. Chairs, lining of walls, structures, windows, panels of the roof, finally, everything is pulled out in the implosion. I alsol rips and grinds the clothes, even if they are strongly tied to seats - only resist for a short time. Death occurs in seconds. At least in the case of the body found without any clothes, the transition to another dimension served to clarify one more chapter of this tragic step in the history of aviation
Lots of mistranslations or inaccuracies in that, but the facts hardly bear poring over... everyone dead in Comets in 2/10ths of a second was the estimate based on dynamic similarity models - fundamentally skull fractures or heart effects.
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Old 11th Jun 2009, 23:39
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I don't know if I would let a plane get into a spiral dive, but if my pitot was bad I would fly known attitude and power settings...and accept sloppy altitude control until things got sorted out. I would keep the wings level on the attitude gyro, confirming my wings were level by not changing heading too much.

something has happened to pilots that don't know how to get by with partial panel...

One of my first jobs as a pilot required a real NDB approach without a heading indicator or attitude indicator...using only the compass (whiskey as it was known) and turn and slip.

while jets would be really hard to fly like this, certainly knowing that you climb at full/climb power with fifteen degrees of pitch, you are level with nose up one degree and cruise power and so forth should be part of any pilot's bag of tricks.

konwing that you are making a normal approach with nose about level, gear and flaps down and power at X should be in your bag of tricks too.

I think I will renew my CFIIMEI and charge 200US$ an hour for basic instructions.
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@agusaleale

That's exactly the blog I was talking about.

But, apparently (as refused before by other members), bodies found without their clothes are not conclusive of explosive decompression..

I brought this up previously because it wasn't mentioned by officials or the media (understandably) as well as this blog is hosted by an appraised newspaper in Brazil...
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Once a month or so out of Miami I would go to a partial panel scan on the B757 using just whiskey compass, standby airspeed, standby altimiter and standby horizon to fly for a few minutes to get back to basics if everything ever failed. Even the standby attitude indicator wasn't required on the southerly heading because of the compass lead error. That is all I had in the aeronca champ I started with so hope I can still fly with it now.
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For all the newly qualified forensic pathologists stoking the discussion regarding information contained "in a Brazilian blog", would it not be more respectfull to leave that in the capable hands of the on-scene specialists ?
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> As can be seen, there is much more to this process in the AMM than can, or should be re-presented here. If the messages are time-stamped at the time the failure first occurs and the ACARS messages are indeed a sequential map of failure...

Be very careful with the thought "time-stamped at the time the failure first occurs." Because it is wrong.

The fault is time-stamped at the time it is first RECOGNIZED as a fault. The fault is recognized at some (unknown to us) time after it has occurred. As described earlier in the excerpt from the AMM, the time it takes to recognize a change as a fault depends on a filtering time, and this filtering time will be different for different variables. We do not know what this time period is, thought it will generally be fractions of a second.

That is enough to cause one fault to be RECOGNIZED before another fault, even though the second fault might have OCCURRED first. Thus, the messages may arrive somewhat out of order of fault occurance.

(I believe also the messages we have seen only have a timestamp that is good to one second resolution. A lot happens in a second. If the message transmission order becomes scrambled (as can easily happen in a noisy environment) we can only reconstruct the original message order to the resolution of the timestamp. This can lead to erroneous conclusions.)
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Originally Posted by WhyIsThereAir
I believe also the messages we have seen only have a timestamp that is good to one second resolution.
Actually, I believe the messages in the now widely distrubted ACARS list are only timed to a one minute resolution. WN0905312245 for example being 2245 on 31 May 2009. No mention of seconds.

So the presentation is at an order of magnitude or two less resolution than the actual message handling.

This would tend to suggest that
(a) we can assume that all the "0210" messages relate to faults before those with an "0211" identifier, etc., because the only way for them to be mixed up is for a fault at 02:10:58 being identified and reported 3 secs later (and thus getting an "0211" identifier) while a later fault at 02:10:59 gets recognized and reported within a second, thus getting an "0210" identifier. Since I think it's likely that the recognition times are under a second in most - but not all cases - and given the unlikelihood of the events being at the critical "minute rollover" it seems a reasonable assumption.
We certainly CAN assume that messages with more than a one minute difference are in the noted order - so all the "0210" must be before the "0212" and so on.
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(b) we cannot rely on the presentation order for messages in a single identifier group ("0210" etc) because near simultaneous faults may have been swapped by a different recognition delay.

Actually, looking at the version I have here, there does in fact seem to be one message out of order. I suspect its a transcription error from the TV screenshots.
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> One can determine that the vs was fixed in place due to a complete lack of real time messages relating to a whole range of other systems that would shout fault immediately.

One can determine the VS was in place during the time the messages were sent by a far simpler test: the messages were received. Talking to a satellite requires a moderately stable platform. There are slew limits on how fast the antenna can track, even if it is a patch antenna or electrically steered antenna. The antenna has both pitch and roll limits and pitch and roll rate limits. It may also have limits on altitude change rate.

Mental excercise 1: Take a craft in stable level flight under AP. Remove the VS. What will happen? How long will it take to happen?

Mental excercise 2: Take a craft in 'strong turbulance' in alternate law with no airspeed indication and no visual clues, being hand-flown reasonably stably. Remove the VS. What will happen? How long will it take to happen?

I submit that we KNOW the VS was present and functional at 02:14. We know this because messages were sent (and received) that were timestamped at 02:14. They would not have been able to be sent (or at least received by the satellite) if the craft had not been reasonably stable in reasonably level flight.

We do not know what happened after 02:14.
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Agree with Capt Fishy

I am also dismayed at the tangents this thread has taken. All speculation, especially concerning the vertical stab. It is obviously apparent that the VS was found due to three possible scenarios:

1. It departed the airframe at altitude and either caused or contributed to the possible inflight breakup.

2. It left the airframe after the airplane departed controled flight due to compounding failures and systems problems.

3. It was seperated upon impact with the Atlantic Ocean.

In all scenarios above, it was only discovered fairly quickly because it floated. It floated is all we know at this time. Fairly simple.

Of course this is "the" topic in aviation and airline ops at this time, however the total lack of knowledge expressed by some/many posters here amaze me. I can certainly pick the fly **** from the pepper and realize who the true professional aviators are in the postings.

Are we now going to have witch hunts and place perfectly good airframes on the ground circa 1979-1980 with the DC-10 that put Sir Freddie out of business for no sane reason? The accident is an anomaly, which is why it is both an accident and hard to discover the cause.

I watch the thread daily and I truly understand the want for information. I would suggest to the mods that this be broken out to threads that require different levels of certification or expertise for participation.

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For all the newly qualified forensic pathologists stoking the discussion regarding information contained "in a Brazilian blog", would it not be more respectfull to leave that in the capable hands of the on-scene specialists ?
Well, in this case it would be as respectful to leave the whole investigation in the capable hands of French authorites and shut down the thread, no?

Several information shared here comes from leaked documents, raw pictures and information from the media. "In a Brazilian blog" is not by any mean less trustworthy than those...
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Here's an excerpt from an article in CNN on-line by Kieran Daly:

"An iced-up Pitot tube deprives the pilots and the aircraft's automatic systems of airspeed information, making the aircraft much harder to fly and preventing numerous onboard functions from working properly -- a highly plausible explanation for the string of error messages sent by the aircraft shortly before the crash.

As it happens, an unusually detailed account of what happens in those circumstances has turned up in the form of an internal memo written in French last December by the safety office of the small airline Air Caraibes Atlantique, which suffered the phenomenon twice in quick succession.

They called a meeting with Airbus in which the airline's flight managers pointed out not only what had happened, but also the difficulty of understanding the immediate actions that Airbus recommended pilots should take. I've read it, and it is decidedly confusing.

Now picture the crew of AF447 struggling with that unfamiliar checklist at night, in a cockpit hammered by severe turbulence, possibly lightning, with no airspeed information and numerous warning lights and alarms sounding.

It is difficult to imagine many bigger challenges for a pilot, and anything short of near-perfect execution would have the potential for loss of control.

But the fact remains that this is today speculation."
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The lonely VS/Rudder tells a tale that is hard to ignore
Only if you can read tea leaves.

The damn thing floats the rest of the stuff it was attached sunk. The fracture lines tell the story but I have no interest in jumping ahead of those with access to better photos.

Each part of the plane that hits the ocean does so at its own terminal velocity (aerodynamic shape) The attitude of the impact with the water results in hydraulic loading. Some of which will be obvious (as was TWA800).

There is much to be gleaned by the experts.
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WhyIsThereAir, you said:

One can determine the VS was in place during the time the messages were sent by a far simpler test: the messages were received. Talking to a satellite requires a moderately stable platform. There are slew limits on how fast the antenna can track, even if it is a patch antenna or electrically steered antenna. The antenna has both pitch and roll limits and pitch and roll rate limits. It may also have limits on altitude change rate.
I am in the RF world...and for some reason I thought the Satcom antenna was a phased array antenna....therefore requiring no steering or any 'lock on time'...it simply needs to stay within a certain degree of vertical. That being said, if it is a phased array antenna and the aircraft become inverted or went in to an especially deep dive then no messages would transmit during such period.

I could be wrong about the antenna type...but after this thread and the other...reading several thousand posts...the antenna could be made of paper mache in my head by now.
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Thank you "Safety Concerns" for that important post. I have to question a comment my colleague made which said:

The reason for such caution is, among other reasons, the fact that the ACARS is a maintenance reporting and messaging system, not a flight data analysis tool. The granularity of the data is very high, (stating the obvious).
While a good point, I'm not sure what he means by "granularity." I was under the impression that the most, if not all of the data path is digital, not analog on it's way up to the satellite. This means it is of a highly accurate and known behavior: we know the program, the version number and the data error bit checking subroutines that will not report the message if it is fragmentary (unlike micorsloth products which are not allowed in flight.) Error reporting of LMU items is very reliable stuff AFAIK: FAULT: The component experienced a subroutine shortcomming or a lack of signal that it needs to do it's thing. A fault occurred (not necessarily a complete failure or even a power loss). Some faults cause other faults in units that were depending on data from the upstream unit. This is my understanding of the process.

Mr Faser's attempt to delve into the aerodynamist's world of high speed, high altitude aerodynamic cause and effect sequences is ill-advised imho. These things do not have probable outcomes, even for a supercomputer. This is why most of the designs are scrapped at Edwards and Dryden after flight testing concludes, that for unknown reasons, the airfoil section when introduced on this particular airframe in this way behaves differently.

On the Rudder at altitude: whether or not a Yaw damper function was involved, or the pilot was involved is impossible to say. Airbus posters here suspect that yaw damping was available since in that alternate law mode it is still supposed to provide protection from dutch roll. My earlier comments were in the context of complete loss of yaw damping. I don't feel that's the problem now that Alternate Law has been explained to me.

All we should say for sure is that it appears the forward bolt hole of the VS yielded and the next two attach points did not, as evidenced by the attached lug carry though hardware. I wouldn't expect the VS/Rudder assembly to survive this way, attached and in good shape, if it was still attached to the airplane at sea level. But strong circumstantial SITA (french product for ACARS) data indicates it was attached at 0214z since the HF antenna coupler did not fault. (The SATCOM however, likely had it's own integral GPS for acquiring lock, I'm told, so this is no longer plausible evidence for an IRU platform available: hence ATT info.)

Seeing the same components faulted on other a330 mishaps is strong evidence. AB emphisizing unrelable airspeed preparedness is very suggestive that they feel this is the problem. Reportedly, the CEO said he doesn't think it's the pitot tubes. I don't either. Even though I think they all iced up, I suspect it's really the A330's interpretation of a complete loss of all air data that caused this accident. I had a number of accidental thrust latches on the FMA on the A310, where the AFS took the wrong action and required us to disconnect it.

Unfortunately, it appears I have sired a number of Captain experts with a total of one post. While they could have been banned for taking unpopular positions in the past, their posts suggest they have no experience flying in weather at altitude. I would suggest that from now on, that anybody with the title of Captain in his screen name is automatically suspect.

Yes including me. Feel free to challenge me on anything.

Cheers,

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All the above, is only my opinion only, and I could be wrong.
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