Air Malaysia missing.

I thought that modern aircraft engines had computers which talked back to the manufacturers / service engineers constantly recording what they were doing. No one has mentioned this so is it not so in this case?

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Originally Posted by Ean Austral

I wonder if something as stupid as the wrong fuel can be put into a jet.


Its just strange that no mayday was sent out.


guess time will tell.


Cheers Ean

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I think the fact that there was no mayday, any contact from the aircraft, and no obvious positional errors (although there has been talk of the plane turning around) these all tend to suggest a catastrophic mid flight failure.

Time, I suppose will reveal plenty, but recovery of the aircraft will be an interesting process.


Martyn

I've read somewhere that jets behave strangely if you accidentally fuel them at the diesel bowser. :angel:

Or maybe it was a trial of "biofuel" that didn't go so well ............. :wasntme:

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Originally Posted by 3toes

I thought that modern aircraft engines had computers which talked back to the manufacturers / service engineers constantly recording what they were doing. No one has mentioned this so is it not so in this case?

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The data is on the black box which have a battery life of 30 days. After that time would be near impossible to find it.

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It does not looks good :(

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Originally Posted by Ean Austral

I wonder if something as stupid as the wrong fuel can be put into a jet.


Its just strange that no mayday was sent out.


guess time will tell.


Cheers Ean

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Been reported that if that model jet lost both engines, at that height it should be able to glide for 20 minutes. Not sure if that fills me with confidence, though, Bob

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

The data is on the black box which have a battery life of 30 days. After that time would be near impossible to find it.

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The black boxes on the air France incident were found two years later and still working. Maybe they were long life battery's

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Originally Posted by juddy

The black boxes on the air France incident were found two years later and still working. Maybe they were long life battery's

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think he is talking about the locating beacon that is inbuilt.

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Originally Posted by bob10

Been reported that if that model jet lost both engines, at that height it should be able to glide for 20 minutes. Not sure if that fills me with confidence, though, Bob

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I was more thinking some different fuel that would cause it to explode when the mixed av gas ran out and the other fuel became the main type going into the jet engines.

Just my simple brain at work.

Cheers Ean

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Originally Posted by juddy

The black boxes on the air France incident were found two years later and still working. Maybe they were long life battery's

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The batteries were well and truely dead - if you let the batteries in your radio go flat it stops working but put new batteries in and it works. When they found the black boxes on the Air France aircraft the boxes were Ok and when powered back up worked and the data was all there.

Garry