737-8 max plane goes down (2018) - new not Max crash Indonesia

ChicagoBlue said:
38kts is, itself, a relative thing, as it’s based on airflow through the pitot, which is not getting steady airflow.

Accirdingly, I don’t think the “airspeed” at which the aircraft was moving could have been only 38kts, as we understand that term (except as it reached its highest altitude and gravity took over at its apex).

Now, if that’s a 4 satellite GPS speed, based on LATERAL MOVEMENT, that’s a different story, as it may have only been moving across the ground at 38kts, while falling out of the sky at terminal velocity!

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Yep you’re right of course.
 
idahoblues said:
I was in a 747 one time when an Motor caught on fire, really liked have three others instead of just one
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I was in a helicopter that caught fire. It wasn't a massive fire, but still a scary moment. A wiring loom behind the avionics rack had been rubbing on a p-clip bolt and directly shorted a cable to earth. The CB tripped out and cut the power to the offending cable, but not before the insulation caught fire and took out the whole loom.
 
Always makes me think back to an incident flying back from Turkey as a kid, pre-flight technically, pilot said there would be a delay as a slight issue with landing gear, we are all sat on the plane waiting to taxi out at this point. Watching out of the window see a gang of lads turn up with sledgehammers, all you could hear and feel for the next 5 minutes was them beating the hell out of something underneath then we were pushed to runway and off we flew, I remember asking my mother what would happen if the wheels fell off when we landed which seemed to upset someone next to us who was already terrified.
 
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