The latest news release about missing flight MH370...
Now apparently it went down absolutely vertical.....nosediving straight into the ocean. That is why there was no wreckage found, because it remained completely intact.....whats next?
That theory is impossible.
The only way the plane could survive totally intact is if the pilots landed the plane on the ocean, where it remained buoyant and then sank.
All aircraft are designed to have the wings shear off in the event of any impact.
That theory is impossible.
The only way the plane could survive totally intact is if the pilots landed the plane on the ocean, where it remained buoyant and then sank.
All aircraft are designed to have the wings shear off in the event of any impact. The purpose of that is the wings are fuel tanks, and separating the fuel tanks from the fuselage has proven to reduce fire causalities in the cabin area.
A more plausible theory is the pilot or both got vertigo and flipped the plane over in mid-flight.
Those are passenger aircraft, not high-performance military aircraft. You cannot do barrel rolls in a passenger aircraft. They are not designed to bank/roll more than 60° off of the horizontal.
See the fate of the US flight that crashed in Central America.
Mysterious Crash of Flight 201 (#2017)
Just hours after the crash of a South American airliner, Copa Flight #201, in a remote Panamanian jungle, Nova was on the ground with a team from the National Transportation Safety Board. This program followed investigators as they conducted tests on the fuselage of the wrecked plane, performed autopsies on the recovered bodies, attempted to retrieve data from the cockpit recorder, and analyzed findings from the data recorder. Upon conclusion of the probe, investigators blamed the problem on a faulty attitude indicator and a faulty connection between the gyroscope and attitude indicator.
My take .... not impossible .. more like very improbable. I'm a big fan of the Black Swan which provides a very good concept of the "impossible".
I'm not sure what to think about the flight demise at this point but, from my physics background it seems that there are angles/patterns of movement that might be able to cut through the water and leave the plane intact. I liken this to cutting through steak or chicken - there are ways that the cut is very tearing and it destroys but, by changing the knife position, you might be able to find an angle that glides through the meat/chicken. What are the chances of this -- very slim but, it should not be discounted. I suppose it could be placed alongside with alien abduction
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The amount of kinetic energy released at the moment will depend on the deceleration. If the object is stopped quickly - much energy is released at that moment (like a belly flop). But if the plane slices through water then the kinetic energy is released slowly through friction with the water (like a swan dive).
If the plane has a massively quick deceleration as occurs in a belly flop, then I would expect that sensors might pick up the energy surge. If the plane hit the water in a fashion to cut/slice through, the energy would be shifted over moments (maybe even minutes) as the speed is decreased and as a result, might not be enough to trigger sensors.
Note, I don't know enough about the sensors that are used and what levels will trigger. What I am saying is that there is a difference in how energy (how much over what period) is released in a belly-flop and a swan dive which is what I am envisioning could have happened to plane (again, many possibilities about what happened).