RE: Russian Plane Crash
November 2, 2015 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2015 at 6:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
The plot of speed and altitude strongly suggest the plane suddenly made an very abrupt climb out of level flight, lost majority of its airspeed, and then plummeted.
The climb was very abrupt, but it didn't gain the plane a whole lot of altitude before airspeed all bled away, and the plane plummeted.
If the plane was largely intact and its engines functioning normally When for whatever reason it suddenly climb from cruising speed and altitude to the point of stalling, then the plane would likely Experience large gain in altitude before the actual stall. So I suspect whatever cause the plane to suddenly climb had already inflicted major damage to the aircraft's aerodynamic properties and/or caused the loss of one or both engines before the plane started to gain altitude and lose airspeed
So my guess is it is some form of catastrophic structural failure which initiated the crash. Perhaps explosive decompression that resulted in the loss of major sections of the fuselage or tail surfaces. It's too early to say if it was caused by a bomb. But major structural failure like this has happened before to civil airliners before without there being a bomb.
The climb was very abrupt, but it didn't gain the plane a whole lot of altitude before airspeed all bled away, and the plane plummeted.
If the plane was largely intact and its engines functioning normally When for whatever reason it suddenly climb from cruising speed and altitude to the point of stalling, then the plane would likely Experience large gain in altitude before the actual stall. So I suspect whatever cause the plane to suddenly climb had already inflicted major damage to the aircraft's aerodynamic properties and/or caused the loss of one or both engines before the plane started to gain altitude and lose airspeed
So my guess is it is some form of catastrophic structural failure which initiated the crash. Perhaps explosive decompression that resulted in the loss of major sections of the fuselage or tail surfaces. It's too early to say if it was caused by a bomb. But major structural failure like this has happened before to civil airliners before without there being a bomb.
