I always believed that a high speed pie was flung at the pentagon by the Amish.
aggolfer said:I drive that stretch of highway almost everyday. See planes flying right over and think about how crazy that scene must have been.91AggieLawyer said:danieljustin06 said:TxAg20 said:
Looking at the storm this plane was looking to avoid, it could have been dissipating or in "gust out phase" which can cause severe wind shear. This is the storm phase that caused the L-1011 crash going into DFW years ago.
This was my first thought. Possibly a microburst.
August 1985. Delivering pizza that day not far from the airport, keeping up with the news over the radio during my delivery runs. I almost got hit by a fire vehicle (not service engine; Suburban type) apparently headed out to the scene before I knew anything about it. However, the Delta plane in that crash was only a few hundred feet off the ground when it hit the microburst.
What I thought was amazing about that crash was the news interviewed a passenger who survived. He was being carted off to an ambulance and the news guy asked him what he thought happened. The guy said something like, "I think we had a wind shear..." I had never heard of that before. But then again, I was only 18 at the time.
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Also, about this time, the FDR data indicated that some small vertical accelerations consistent with the airplane entering turbulence. Shortly after, when the airplane's indicated airspeed was steady about 230 knots, the engines increased to maximum thrust, and the airplane pitch increased to about 4 nose up. The airplane then pitched nose down over the next 18 seconds to about 49 in response to nose-down elevator deflection. The stall warning (stick shaker) did not activate.
GAC06 said:
Hahaha
GAC06 said:
That's not how it works for a ton of reasons
Could someone please put this in layman's terms and explain the difference for us novices? Am I wrong in reading that the pilot put this plane into a dive even though there was no stall? Or, is the idea that there may have been a software glitch?Quote:
"in response to nose-down elevator deflection"