Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
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Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
My condolences to the family members of the Air France Airbus disaster .I am completely shocked.
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
In the past also there have been incidents of lightning hitting the aircrafts.I remember once they were showing on discovery channel a helicopter being hit by lightning.They must find a solution to this.
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
My thoughts are also with these families.
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
The cause isnt lightning...
Aircraft get by lightning more often than one realises.
Lookup the Faraday effect for an explanation.
My guess is explosive decompression... given there was no Mayday.
I wouldnt rule out anything at this point.
Prayers for the families...
Aircraft get by lightning more often than one realises.
Lookup the Faraday effect for an explanation.
My guess is explosive decompression... given there was no Mayday.
I wouldnt rule out anything at this point.
Prayers for the families...
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
It must be very hard for families. The wreckage is still to be found.
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
i say it's the bermuda triangle at work again!
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
Lightning in itself may not cause such damage.
Many Aircraft have been struck by lightning and have safely made it back.
http://www.pilotfriend.com/av_weather/meteo/thnder.htm
As of this time, what looks like debris from the wreckage has been sighted in the ocean.
Our prayers to all the families.
Many Aircraft have been struck by lightning and have safely made it back.
http://www.pilotfriend.com/av_weather/meteo/thnder.htm
As of this time, what looks like debris from the wreckage has been sighted in the ocean.
Our prayers to all the families.
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Re: Air France: Missing jet possibly hit by lightning
Thoughts and prayers to the families.
The world is truly getting smaller and know a chap who regularly flies back and forth on this route, fortunately he recently had switched to another airlines and also wasnt traveling. It will take a while before they figure it out looks like the flew into one of those violent atlantic thunder storms around equator.
Per yahoo "The pilot sent a manual signal at 11 p.m. local time saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" — black, electrically charged cumulonimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning. Satellite data has shown that towering thunderheads were sending 100 mph (160 kph) updraft winds into the jet's flight path at the time."
Still it must have been a severe storm because the planes are tested upto 50% higher limit stress tests. So could be a combined impact of lightning, weather but how come their radar didnt warn them of the weather dont these planes have doppler or such radars?
The world is truly getting smaller and know a chap who regularly flies back and forth on this route, fortunately he recently had switched to another airlines and also wasnt traveling. It will take a while before they figure it out looks like the flew into one of those violent atlantic thunder storms around equator.
Per yahoo "The pilot sent a manual signal at 11 p.m. local time saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" — black, electrically charged cumulonimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning. Satellite data has shown that towering thunderheads were sending 100 mph (160 kph) updraft winds into the jet's flight path at the time."
Still it must have been a severe storm because the planes are tested upto 50% higher limit stress tests. So could be a combined impact of lightning, weather but how come their radar didnt warn them of the weather dont these planes have doppler or such radars?