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Airline Disaster Talk
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Clinically Insane
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I know at least a couple people are into this.
Excellent write-up of TWA 800. That was the one in 1996, where a 747 blew up not long after takeoff, and everyone thought it was shot down by a missile. Long, but excellent.
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/...0-fecfd651a157
Tl;dr
Almost zero chance it was a bomb or a missile. Most likely scenario is a short in the electrical system went back up the wire connected to the float gauge in the center fuel tank. In theory there shouldn’t have been anything inside the tank it could arc to, but silver from the wire connecting the float gauge and sulfur in the jet fuel can cause oxidization build-up on the float gauge itself, which then gives something for the charge to jump to.
One of the end results of this is all airliners built after 1992 are now required to pump nitrogen into the fuel tanks so it’s inert.
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I presume you have booked a flight to somewhere in the near future. And this is like swapping ghost stories right before everyone goes to bed.
Short answer - don't worry about it. Everyone usually dies in a plane crash. But they're really rare. Your life is in good ... odds.
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Clinically Insane
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No flights planned!
Honestly I’m into airline disasters because I like designing systems, and most airline disasters are very interesting studies of system failure.
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Originally Posted by subego
No flights planned!
Honestly I’m into airline disasters because I like designing systems, and most airline disasters are very interesting studies of system failure.
I concur. Also, fascinating piecework trying to reconstruct what went wrong from the absurdest details.
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Clinically Insane
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This one is full of that.
Interestingly, several examples of situations where enough was blown to shit they had to start looking at other 747s, and realized there was dangerous shit going on with almost the entire fleet, it just hadn’t caused a catastrophe for any of those yet.
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There are a few very good Youtube channels dedicated to that. Here are a few I like:
Airspace: This pilot of a Swiss airline started a Youtube channel during Covid. He has a good balance between going into details and keeping things understandable, doesn't overdramatize things and makes very tight videos.
Mentour Pilot: He is line training captain and very Youtube-savvy. Great content, although the videos tend to be 25-30 minutes rather than 12ish.
Fly with Magnar: this guy is amazing, he goes into a lot of detail for some crashes. If you ever wondered how to start an ATR turbo prop or so, this is your man.
Greed Dot Aviation:
One that is meh (the Youtuber doesn't have an engineering or piloting background :
Mini Air Crash Investigation
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I ultimately prefer reading to watching YouTube for consumption of this type of material, and for those who are the same, everything Cloudberg does is top notch.
https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
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