RE: Russian Plane Crash
November 3, 2015 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2015 at 11:54 am by Anomalocaris.)
It looks like some sort of Heat bloom event attended the loss of control of the aircraft. An engine fire, or even a fuel tank fire, would not be immediately fatal, and would not result in immediate loss of flight control, and would sound all sorts of warnings in the cockpit. So engine fire or fuel fire is not consistent with the lack of distress signals.
This leaves either a bomb, or a low order fuel detonation, which immediately inflicted enough damage to cause the aircraft to lose control, and either killed or incapacitated the crew right away.
The TWA b747 whose empty center fuel tank suffered a fuel vapor detonation off Long Island and generated all sorts of conspiracy theories in 1996 comes to mind as a possible analogue.
In that incident the empty center tank, not purged of fuel vapor, blew up when frayed wiring routed through the tank sparked amidst the fuel vapor. The explosion compromised the fuselage structure sufficient to cause the nose of the aircraft, with the cockpit, to break off. This caused then rest of the aircraft, minus the front third of the fuselage, to violently pitch up. In many ways that incident seem to resemble what we know of this one.
However, in the TWA incident, the engines of the aircraft continue to function after the detonation, so the stricken aircraft gained a lot of altitude before stalling and crashing. Here it appears the aircraft lost power as it went into the climb.
If it were a bomb, then evidence of the bomb explosion should surface soon as the wreckage is examined. Of
This leaves either a bomb, or a low order fuel detonation, which immediately inflicted enough damage to cause the aircraft to lose control, and either killed or incapacitated the crew right away.
The TWA b747 whose empty center fuel tank suffered a fuel vapor detonation off Long Island and generated all sorts of conspiracy theories in 1996 comes to mind as a possible analogue.
In that incident the empty center tank, not purged of fuel vapor, blew up when frayed wiring routed through the tank sparked amidst the fuel vapor. The explosion compromised the fuselage structure sufficient to cause the nose of the aircraft, with the cockpit, to break off. This caused then rest of the aircraft, minus the front third of the fuselage, to violently pitch up. In many ways that incident seem to resemble what we know of this one.
However, in the TWA incident, the engines of the aircraft continue to function after the detonation, so the stricken aircraft gained a lot of altitude before stalling and crashing. Here it appears the aircraft lost power as it went into the climb.
If it were a bomb, then evidence of the bomb explosion should surface soon as the wreckage is examined. Of
