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Originally posted by DJ RANN I heard an interesting conspiracy theory and to some degree, I can see where it came from: Sully's flight was not hit by birds, it's was simple bad maintenance and the bird story was quickly released as AA would simply not survive another problem, especially with the amount of money they were losing at the time and the general shape of things post 911. The more I think about the more I believe it, and I don't really buy in to this kind of shit.

I have a friend who was on that flight (he has some awesome pictures when they were on the life rafts, too) and he said he heard a bunch of thuds before the plane stalled and went down. So, I believe the bird story.

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Originally posted by ziptnf I probably wake up QWOPing.

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Originally posted by Banora I have a friend who was on that flight (he has some awesome pictures when they were on the life rafts, too) and he said he heard a bunch of thuds before the plane stalled and went down. So, I believe the bird story.

Right, like they didn't brainwash him and pay him off big bucks to lie.

Just thought I'd post this. Birdstrike on a Bae Hawk

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Originally posted by iclone yeah, the pitot tube was already mentioned. it's actually a pitot static system, which leads into the aircraft instrumentation. THERE IS NOT one tube (let alone, a standby) for each seat...that's ridiculous. you're not going to have 700+ pitot tubes sticking out of a wide-body. most commercial aircraft have only a few for the entire plane, including backups. nose of the aircraft below is to the left (envision pitot tube covers removed):

Are you kidding??

You thought I was talking about every seat on the aircraft passengers and all???

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Originally posted by chinamon chinamon is INCH MOAN. LOL so fitting.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker It's thought that all of them failed when super-cooled water vapor condensed on them. There was a series of electronic transmissions of systems shutting down, including the auto-pilot, just prior to the plane's crash. The systems that shut down were related, in some measure, to those tubes.

The issue is that if anything like that happened, the pilots would have been able to radio an emergency...

Something happened that took everything out at once which tells us that it wasn't simply an instrument failure...

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Originally posted by chinamon chinamon is INCH MOAN. LOL so fitting.

I don't understand why they don't just put parachutes on commercial airplanes for these situations.

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"Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking, we have just lost our second engine, the plane is about to stall and plow into the nearest mountain range in the next 120 or so seconds. Please proceed calmly and one by one your nearest emergency exit where a stewardess will provide you each with a parachute and properly instruct you on how to use it, while i remote detonate the shaped charges so that the emergency door will actually open and you can all jump to safety."

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Originally posted by Moongoose "Ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking, we have just lost our second engine, the plane is about to stall and plow into the nearest mountain range in the next 120 or so seconds. Please proceed calmly and one by one your nearest emergency exit where a stewardess will provide you each with a parachute and properly instruct you on how to use it, while i remote detonate the shaped charges so that the emergency door will actually open and you can all jump to safety."

that's the same thing i was thinking. should go great.

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Originally posted by VDub You thought I was talking about every seat on the aircraft passengers and all???

11 years in ops analysis at a major taught me better, but yeah...i don't know you, and from the statement below, you can see how i'd imagine you didn't have a grasp on what a pitot tube is...

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Originally posted by VDub I'm not sure that one tube freezing would be a problem since most airliners have several of them. One for each seat and a standby

Clearly this tragedy could have been avoided if planes had a giant parachute to prevent it from plummeting to the ground.

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Originally posted by woscar Clearly this tragedy could have been avoided if planes had a giant parachute to prevent it from plummeting to the ground.

They do have those on some light aircraft.

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Or boats in the ocean suspending a giant trampoline to catch the plane.

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