The overheating thing that the media is jumping about sounds like just the temperature probe on the nose of the plane, which is heated and may have been overheating. It was disconnected to prevent the heat from coming on, but I highly, highly doubt it had anything to do with this incident. From what I'm hearing there was a possibly engine failure or fire on takeoff, but that doesn't explain the whole crash, as an MD can fly on one engine. As usual there is a chain of events. Like the DC-10 crash years back where the engine fell off. Yes an engine fell off, but the aircraft was still flyable. But the engine falling off caused a failure of the stall warning system, which in turn failed to alert the copilot (who had the controls) that he was too slow and allowed the aircraft to crash.
An over heating probe would have no effect on the accident. There are two sets, Captain and First Officer........redundancy. They can be set INOP in accordance with the MEL (Minimum equipment list) The heating is for anti icing...............Spain to Canery Island during the summer. The media as usual are showing an incredibly lack of research. Yes the it would be switched on as a matter of course, but outside of icing conditions, heating is not required.
However, there are now reports that the Airport CCTV caught the aircraft on film and it was not burning, but suffered a power loss resulting in the roll and the right wing hitting the ground.
Half way down"A video recording of the departure of Spanair flight JK5022 shows the plane experienced a dramatic loss of power as it attempted to take to the skies.
The footage taken by the Spanish civil air authority AENEAS contradicts earlier eyewitness reports that the left engine of the plane burst into flames as it left the runaway.
It shows the plane leaving the runway but at a height of only a few metres the aircraft appears to lose power and tilt to one side causing the right wing to hit the ground. Seconds later the plane burst into flames.
The CCTV clip has not been released but will be studied by investigators"
Matt
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
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People Eating Tasty Animals.
B1 (Cat C) licenced engineer, Boeing 737NG 600/700/800/900 Airbus A318/19/20/21 and Dash8 Q-400
1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
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