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Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: hondasportbike on November 12, 2001, 11:58:10 AM

Let me know what you think.  What should be done about it in either case?

Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: Luke on November 12, 2001, 12:22:07 PM

i read that one of the engines exploded and fell off shortly after take off, its too soon to know what happened i guess.

Title: Re: Luke
Post by: hondasportbike on November 12, 2001, 02:45:19 PM

Yes, that is what I heard, but they say the second engine fell off too(Not confirmed).  What are the chances that both engines malfunction so bad, they fall off.  The engines are designed to fall of in emegencies to keep flying debris from the fan blade from puncturing the fusalodge.  Kinda spooky to me!

Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: ddaryl on November 12, 2001, 02:57:12 PM

Well it was an Airbus plane so I\'m pulling for mechanical malfuctiuon

its a Boeing thing ;)

Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: Lavan on November 12, 2001, 03:01:19 PM

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Originally posted by ddaryl
Well it was an Airbus plane so I\'m pulling for mechanical malfuctiuon

its a Boeing thing ;)

LOL Classic. :laughing:

Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on November 13, 2001, 09:31:43 AM

I think about 90% it was an accident... bad luck for NY cityzens..

Title: Was flight 578 terrorism or mechanical mishap?
Post by: CygnusXI on November 13, 2001, 09:40:30 AM

I copied this from my reply to the other airplane crash thread::

Well, I do have 10 years experience(USAF and Commercial) working on Aircraft, from engines to fuel tanks and even on the "black box\'s" (C-141, C-5 planes).

Take that as you will.

A Catastrophic faliure of an engine would NOT cause that type of total structural failure.

For a series (2 to 4) of catastrophic failures to all happen at the same time (more or less) is somewhere on the scale of 1:1,000,000,000,000 odds.

Engines can take SEVERAL birds and still at WORST only "flame out". At which point the crew just kills that engine with the suppresion system. That still leaves a whole lot unaccounted for.

(Oh, and knowing what I do about feul systems, and internal wiring of the tanks, the TWA 800 "chaffed wire in the fuel tank" theory is just about as absurd...... but that\'s another story)

The thing litterally fell apart in the air like a balsa wood model. That just doesn\'t happen.