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Wreckage of MH370 washing up on Reunion Island?

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Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on July 30, 2015, 05:18:25 am ---AF 447 hit the water in a full vertical stall (belly down), definitely not a 'soft ditching', yet bits like these survived. Last one is a wing flap.

Anyway, doesn't tell us anything useful, probably.
Why have no other pieces turned up? Let's hope they find some more now.

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Soft is comparative. Landing speed or less instead of cruising speed or more. It's a most of a magnitude speed difference which ads up to a lot of energy.

Sorry, much older thread than I realized.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: coppice on February 21, 2020, 04:48:15 pm ---How does that work? You have 2 pilots, and they need to visit the washroom from time to time.  ;)

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A flight attendant temporarily takes place in the cockpit. I feel that introduces other risks but that's how it's done.

coppice:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 21, 2020, 05:00:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on February 21, 2020, 04:48:15 pm ---How does that work? You have 2 pilots, and they need to visit the washroom from time to time.  ;)

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A flight attendant temporarily takes place in the cockpit. I feel that introduces other risks but that's how it's done.

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Unless they are required to have at least one unusually robust flight attendant on each flight, I can't see that providing any improvement in safety.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on February 21, 2020, 05:00:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on February 21, 2020, 04:48:15 pm ---How does that work? You have 2 pilots, and they need to visit the washroom from time to time.  ;)

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A flight attendant temporarily takes place in the cockpit. I feel that introduces other risks but that's how it's done.

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Yeah.

Issue there is that cockpits now have to be locked, and pretty much impossible to unlock (AFAIK) from the outside (for security reasons). So basically pilots can trap themselves in the cockpit. Any extra person in there may only marginally help mitigating the associated risk.

I still have a very mixed opinion on that door locking thing.

eugenenine:
Last time I flew there was a small restroom right behind the cockpit and the door between that restroom and the rest of the plane and then the cockpit door could be opened to allow access to the restroom.

Thats why I say put the second off switch back somewhere else that another member of the crew has to turn it off.
Or put it inside the cargo door and the last person to close the cargo door turns it on and the first person to open it after landing turns it off so there isn't access to turn it off from inside the airplane.

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