US AIRWAYS CRASH HAPPENING NOW

[Hagar]

Now they have found that both engines are missing. So, not exactly a perfecty executed ditch, but better than a cartwheel effect.

8-)

According to expat that's intentional. Probably the reason it was successful.

It would also be interesting to see if the engines are still on the wings or not. This would indicate what sort of landing it made. If it "landed" on the water they would normally be ripped off, as they are designed too or if they are still on, possibly indicating that the pilot stalled her onto the water tail first.

[C]

According to expat that's intentional. Probably the reason it was successful.

Indeed. If they both shear almost instantaneously then the deceleration will be hopefully linear and less abrupt.

[Ravang]

I was watching BBC news, and they said the plane will try to be raised tomorrow morning. They also used FSX to show a "reenactment" of what happened (got better fps then my computer ).

[skoker]

Now they have found that both engines are missing. So, not exactly a perfecty executed ditch, but better than a cartwheel effect.

8-)

Here are the engines in the second shot:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1232149816

[Brando14100]

According to expat that's intentional. Probably the reason it was successful.

Indeed. If they both shear almost instantaneously then the deceleration will be hopefully linear and less abrupt.

Oops. I should have read more carefully.  :-[

8-)

[Hagar]

According to expat that's intentional. Probably the reason it was successful.

Indeed. If they both shear almost instantaneously then the deceleration will be hopefully linear and less abrupt.

Oops. I should have read more carefully.

[expat]

According to expat that's intentional. Probably the reason it was successful.

Indeed. If they both shear almost instantaneously then the deceleration will be hopefully linear and less abrupt.

Oops. I should have read more carefully.

[Brando14100]

You're refering to the one that ran out of fuel, ditched near a beach, and cartwheeled right?

8-)

[expat]

You're refering to the one that ran out of fuel, ditched near a beach, and cartwheeled right?

8-)

Yes, pretty much the same thing. Non working engines are non working engines however the Ethiopian 767 was effected by shore breeze at the last second which caused it to drop a wing. Nothing that the pilot could do about it in that case.

Matt

[DaveSims]

New video just out on MSNBC showing the plane hitting the water.  It looks like a surveillance camera on one of the docks there.

[expat]

[quote]New video just out on MSNBC showing the plane hitting the water.