I managed to take a photo of this curious panel that is situated in the foreward section of the fuselage. I always wondered what this thing is for. Seems like it controls lights and background music among other things.
Click for a closer view.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Curious little panel
I managed to take a photo of this curious panel that is situated in the foreward section of the fuselage. I always wondered what this thing is for. Seems like it controls lights and background music among other things.
Click for a closer view.
Big Engine Big Pilot
It's a nice big pilot being backdropped by a big engine. I sat on that blue-color-themed A320 that day. I assume that is the nice large man in charge of the flight. Judging by his bigness.
Incidentally, the pilot that came out before the big pilot went in was small kechik. I was wondering why he was so kechik until I realised that it was a woman pilot. That's something I don't notice everyday. Salutations!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
US Airways Flight 1549 Hudson river splashdown
The way I wrote the title almost made it sound like a party.
Yesterday, (January 15th in the US) a US Airways flight bearing the registration N106US crash-landed into the Hudson river in New York. Coastguard crash video before.
Approximately around the 2:00 mark, you are able to see the splashdown of the plane. At 2:40 you are able to see passengers scrambling (in a relatively organized manner) on to the wing and on to emergency inflatable slides.
As this is happening, the plane is slowly drifting with the river's current. Local ferries were quick to respond and immediately went towards the downed plane to rescue any survivors.
Around the 6 minute mark, as the plane was drifting towards the incoming ferry seemingly about to crash into each other, the ferry captain carefully maneuvered the ferry backwards to match the drifting speed of the aircraft.
At this time, moe ferries came around the left side of the plane and began collecting people who were standing on the left side wing of the plane.
All the while, the plane was sinking at a rapid pace. This incident would have been more disastrous if it water-landed anywhere else that is far from civilization.
Ultimately, the assistance provided by local ferries proved vital in making this incident go without any loss to life. Great job ferrymen!
Notice at about 3:12, a person slipped off the tip of the right wing. Thankfully, someone else helped this person up.
The flight's captain was Chesley B. Sullenberger III, 57, of Danville, California, a former United States Air Force captain who once served as a fighter pilot and flew F-4 Phantom II's from 1973 to 1980.
He was awarded the key to the city for his commendable and heroic actions in managing to water-land a plane safely.
The cause of the crash is due to multiple bird strikes causing both engines to flame-out. The aircraft flown was an Airbus A320 powered by CFM-56 engines. All 155 on board survived.
Trivia:
This is the 2nd water-landing that didn't have any fatalities. The first was back in 1968, on Japan Airlines Flight 2 piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh. When asked about the cause of the crash, he humbly replied, "As you Americans say, I fucked up."
He took full responsibility for the accident and refused to blame anyone else or any other circumstances. Back in Japan, Aso was sent to retrain as a co-pilot. Such a frank acceptance of blame has come to be known as the "Asoh Defense".
Yesterday, (January 15th in the US) a US Airways flight bearing the registration N106US crash-landed into the Hudson river in New York. Coastguard crash video before.
Approximately around the 2:00 mark, you are able to see the splashdown of the plane. At 2:40 you are able to see passengers scrambling (in a relatively organized manner) on to the wing and on to emergency inflatable slides.
As this is happening, the plane is slowly drifting with the river's current. Local ferries were quick to respond and immediately went towards the downed plane to rescue any survivors.
Around the 6 minute mark, as the plane was drifting towards the incoming ferry seemingly about to crash into each other, the ferry captain carefully maneuvered the ferry backwards to match the drifting speed of the aircraft.
At this time, moe ferries came around the left side of the plane and began collecting people who were standing on the left side wing of the plane.
All the while, the plane was sinking at a rapid pace. This incident would have been more disastrous if it water-landed anywhere else that is far from civilization.
Ultimately, the assistance provided by local ferries proved vital in making this incident go without any loss to life. Great job ferrymen!
Notice at about 3:12, a person slipped off the tip of the right wing. Thankfully, someone else helped this person up.
The flight's captain was Chesley B. Sullenberger III, 57, of Danville, California, a former United States Air Force captain who once served as a fighter pilot and flew F-4 Phantom II's from 1973 to 1980.
He was awarded the key to the city for his commendable and heroic actions in managing to water-land a plane safely.
The cause of the crash is due to multiple bird strikes causing both engines to flame-out. The aircraft flown was an Airbus A320 powered by CFM-56 engines. All 155 on board survived.
Trivia:
This is the 2nd water-landing that didn't have any fatalities. The first was back in 1968, on Japan Airlines Flight 2 piloted by Captain Kohei Asoh. When asked about the cause of the crash, he humbly replied, "As you Americans say, I fucked up."
He took full responsibility for the accident and refused to blame anyone else or any other circumstances. Back in Japan, Aso was sent to retrain as a co-pilot. Such a frank acceptance of blame has come to be known as the "Asoh Defense".
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Airbus A320 disaster Flight 296 1988
I found the sound of the increase in thrust towards the end of the video to be quite creepy.
Both pilots Captain Asseline and First Officer Mazière survived. 3 people died due to smoke. Pilot was sentenced to imprisonment for about a year. Today, the captain, Michel Asseline has lost his French pilot license for 8
years. He is now flying in Australia.
I feel that the sentence is unfair. Its not like he purposely crashed the plane for the heck of it. I'm pretty sure he did his best to try and recover the plane.
He was surprised when he watched the video to discover that the landing gear was only about 30ft off the ground when the altimeter showed 100ft.
Furthermore, in 1998, about a decade after the crash, new evidence shows a person removing the aircraft Flight Data Recorder. It is believed that the FDR that was shown in court isn't the same one from the crash.
Photo of man removing the FDR and more details here.
Conspiracy theorists suggest that Airbus was trying to cover up the faults of the aircraft. It was the first Fly-By-Wire commercial jet after all. This failure could mean Airbus would have an economic crisis on their hands.
* OEB 19/1: Engine Acceleration Deficiency at Low Altitude
This OEB noted that the engines may not respond to throttle input at low altitude.
* OEB 06/2: Baro-Setting Cross Check
This OEB stated that the barometric altitude indication on the A320 did not always function properly.
A month before the incident, these reports were released but the Air France crew wasn't aware of them.
These malfunctions led some theorists to believe that Airbus is to blame for the crash, not Captain Asseline.
Scratching a billion dollar plane
What you see here is VMU testing. It determines the speed in which the plane can safely take off under various load conditions.
As the plane takes flight, the pilot checks the speed at which it flew and makes that the minimum take off speed with that weight. Please feel free to correct me. I was merely guessing.
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