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Wreckage of MH370 washing up on Reunion Island?

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MadTux:
AFAIK the pilot probably killed the passengers by cabin depressurization. Since the pilot has oxygen for a far longer time (4h I read somewhere) than the passengers (a few minutes), he just have open pressure valves for an hour or so at high altitude, before he is alone up there.

It's the trailing edge damage which makes me somewhat suspicious that the pilot deployed flaps for maximum lift to make a slow ditch with minimal damage. Compare the damaged flap with the damage on the hudson bay A320
http://charlottemagazine-images.dashdigital.com/images/cache/cache_b/cache_9/cache_9/15721-0114_FEA_5Years05-dd6e199b.jpeg?ver=1434645054&aspectratio=1.5

Alexei.Polkhanov:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 02, 2015, 11:12:04 am ---b) The flaperon obviously has welded sealed compartments (or some other such bouyancy and/or low density materials) inside that allows it to float.  Not rocket science.

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I think these compartments used as a fuel tank. That is another reason why they are very well sealed. They probably were already empty at the time of a crash.



wasyoungonce:
No the Flaperon is not used as a fuel tank, its a moving control surface.   The new parts on reunion island do not really look like aircraft parts (looks like an alloy case handle) but it does have a Chinese looking stamp on it  :-//

kosmonooit:
Reminds me of the Monty Python & the Holy Grail

So why do witches burn?
- 'Cause they're made of wood? - Good!
- How do we tell if she is made of wood? - Build a bridge out of her.
- But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
- Oh, yeah.
- Does wood sink in water?
- No, it floats. - Throw her into the pond!
- What also floats in water?
- Bread. - Apples.
- Very small rocks. - Cider! Great gravy.
- Cherries. Mud. - Churches.
- Lead. - A duck!
- Exactly.
- So, logically--
- If she weighs the same as a duck...
- she's made of wood.
- And therefore?
- A witch!



However this here flaperon has a honey comb structure inside (for strength I guess) that is why it has floated to Reunion.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-31/mh370-what-is-washed-up-plane-debris-flaperon/6663434

"The flaperons on the 777 are made from a combination of lightweight materials, including aluminium, a glass fibre-reinforced plastic laminate skin, and a honeycomb internal structure. A lightweight part of this type could potentially stay afloat for a long time. "

Psi:

--- Quote from: kosmonooit on August 02, 2015, 01:24:15 pm ---Certainly one of the biggest mysteries in the  history of aviation, but how could the aircraft fly due south to the middle of nowhere for so long without anyone compos mentis is something that I cant get over, with other pilot suicides it over quite quickly, either plunging into the ground / sea or mountain, and the aircraft is smashed to smithereens. Although the pilot (or someone else ) releasing some  toxic gas can not be eliminated, although this would not explain some of the nav/comms equipment failure. And no one on board who had any background that would suggest this action.

Surely the waypoints keyed into the Autopilot that caused it to track that erratic track then route that great circle south is some clue? Perhaps done in a panic or on the brink of conciousness.

Until they find more pieces and figure it all, its all just speculation.

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There are many different autopilot modes. Some will maintain level flight indefinitely.
It's entirely possible that everyone was dead for many many hours and it flew on in complete silence until the final few minutes when the computer would have said  "Too low, terrain" a few hundred times before impact.

</eerie>

Usually a water landing rips a wing off, the wing that contacts first gets extreme forces from the engine digging in.
So finding a flaperon makes sense, it's right where the wing joins the plane

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