Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, July 15, 2013

Where Asiana 214 Should Have Been


This video reconstruction shows the flight path of Fight 214, compared to a normal flight path. You can see the last-second pitch-up to keep from flying into the seawall.



For comparison purposes, the reference (or "ghost") airplane is flying slower than it should have been. At the proper airspeed, it would have moved quickly past 214. I would have liked to have seen the video start further out, as it may have shown that 214 was well above the glide path.

3 comments:

Chuck Pergiel said...

The pilot reported being blinded by a bright light, which reminded me of a thriller I read wherein the CIA caused the crash of an air freighter by doing just that. And didn't you advocate hanging numbskulls pointing lasers at aircraft? Just wanted to throw this out in case you were suffering from a shortage of conspiracy theories.

BadTux said...

Yes, we already covered the "blinded by a bright light" bit. The plane was already too low and too slow to land safely at the time he reports that, even if he'd spun the engines up to 100% at that point they wouldn't have spun up in time to get him down safely.

Besides, there were three pilots in the cockpit. Three. Two of whom were at controls capable of landing the plane. Procedure is that if the pilot becomes disabled, he asks the copilot to take over. No such thing happened.

hans said...

2nd very similar event at SFO 7/25/13
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/30/1325222/second-sfo-disaster-avoided-seconds-before-crash