The Official Plane Crash Thread

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  1. NineteenNine

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    technically this flight was a longer scheduled flight...

    :awesomeface:
     
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  2. BellottiBold

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    Right, I got hung up on "continuous overwater"
     
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  3. Georgia_Nole

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    Hawaii’s more or less the most remote place on planet earth outside of the poles.

    Flights build into their flight plan a marker known as a “decision point” very basically it’s the point when you decide if it’s closer to turn around, or keep going towards your destination. flights to Hawaii became more accessible and cheaper because in the past decade or so the 737/A320 were able to attain an ETOPS rating of 180 minutes, opening up single aisle flights outside of the 757 to the islands.

    Here’s an ETOPS map you can use to show the how the different minutes ratings effect flight paths. You can see a 330 minute ETOPS basically allows for unlimited flight outside of directly over the Antarctic.

    http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?MS=wls&PC=red&RC=navy&DU=mi&E=330

    Fun fact: Qantas has been running sightseeing flights over Antartica on their newest 787 airplanes.
     
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  4. The Banks

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    Eielson AFB, just south of Fairbanks has a runway that is 3 miles long, second longest in the US I believe. One of the strategic space shuttle backup landing spots.
     
  5. The Banks

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    The North Pole isn’t remote at all compared to Hawaii. There’s towns a few hundred miles from the North Pole.
     
  6. Bruce Wayne

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    Was going to say it wasn't until very recently that Qantas was forced to stick with 4 engines for overseas flights until they got their 787s
     
  7. Artoo

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    Anchorage is absolutely rated for 777s. It's a huge stopover for UPS international cargo. Multiple 747s daily
     
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  9. chet fire

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    I've never really understood the appeal of a sightseeing trip over Antartica.

    Especially after learning about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erebus_disaster



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  10. The Banks

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    It’s a top 5 busiest airport in the world.
     
  11. Bruce Wayne

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  12. Henry Blake

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    https://www.flightglobal.com/safety...ctions-as-airlines-ground-777s/142524.article
     
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  13. NineteenNine

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    Whoa. That probably could’ve taken off the wing...:ohholkyfuck:
     
  14. Artoo

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    No
     
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  15. Georgia_Nole

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    The whoa is right, however the taking off the wing thing is way way wrong. A bigger whoa would be the fact that the central fuel tank isn’t too far from the puncture. However I read that that route does not require that fuel tank to be used, so it would have been empty even if it was punctured
     
  16. NineteenNine

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    But maybe, right?
     
  17. COVIDiskilingme79

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    Nope.
     
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  18. Artoo

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    Not even a little.
     
  19. NineteenNine

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    So basically this new fangled tracking thingie verifies where the plane is (basically where we thought) and that the pilot was definitely in control (also what was thought).
     
  20. AHebrewToo

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    The radar stops tracking the flight in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Is that where it got above the atmosphere on its way to outer space?
     
  21. NineteenNine

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    Clearly.
     
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  23. Bruce Wayne

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    Surviving an open-water ditching at night? Better go play the lotto with that kind of luck
     
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  24. COVIDiskilingme79

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    Idk man, I've done it several times in Microsoft Flight Simulator and I'm still alive. Not all that difficult.
     
  25. COVIDiskilingme79

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    I love the random Twitter takes on plane crashes. Just beautiful.
     
  26. Kirk Fogg

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    Lol at Mike Richardsons’s Twitter avatar
     
  27. Bruce Wayne

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  29. Bruce Wayne

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  30. spagett

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    Pratt & Whitney is probably like "ya could've just said both engines"
     
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  31. Kirk Fogg

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    New story by 60 Minutes Australia RE: MH 370. Tracking radio signal disturbances the night of the disappearance may have helped pinpoint where the plane finally crashed.

     
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  32. Bruce Wayne

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  33. Drunkle Tom

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  34. Baseballman86

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    Shit. Another Boeing 737, not a Max though, so no MCAS?
     
  35. Baseballman86

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    :ohholkyfuck:
     
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  36. Redav

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    Jesus
     
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  37. WhiskeyDelta

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    Wtf, planes shouldn’t go straight down like that. In my mostly uneducated knowledge, post planes have a positive glide to drop ration so even with dead engines it should go more forward than down.
     
  38. Redav

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    Planes have been landed successfully that were completely out of fuel
     
  39. Baseballman86

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    Definitely seems like something was forcing it down. Nothing breaking should result in that. Almost seems intentional
     
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  40. Bruce Wayne

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    That thing? Gravity
     
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  41. HotMic

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    That doesn’t look accidental

    :booger:
     
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  42. HoosDaMan

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    I assume you pass out in that kind of dive?
     
  43. lomcevak

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    Catastrophic structural failure or hydraulic issues/loss of controllability can certainly result in a dive like that
     
  44. WhiskeyDelta

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    Nit really; what makes you pass out is G-forces. If you’re in free-fall you’re falling at the same acceleration you always are: 1G
     
  45. Redav

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    They're supposed to have hydraulics systems that can continue to operate even if one or multiple areas of the line are damaged so seems like it would take catastrophic damage to the plane for them to lose hydraulics... iirc
     
  46. HoosDaMan

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    Well, that’s depressing.