AF447 broke up mid-air

[Le Rosbif]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090618/...c-3fd0ae9.html

: "Typically, if you see intact bodies and multiple fractures - arm, leg, hip fractures - it's a good indicator of a mid-flight break-up.

"Especially if you're seeing large pieces of aircraft as well."

Aviation safety consultant Jack Casey agreed multiple fractures were consistent with the plane breaking up in mid-air and that the lack of clothing could be significant.

"In an in-air break up like we are supposing here, the clothes are just torn away," he said.

[BrilloPad]

Not sure which I prefer : mid air break up or plummeting into the sea intact.....

[Menelaus]

Can I take the third door from Monty Halls problem = not dying at all, thanks?

[Churchill]

Not sure which I prefer : mid air break up or plummeting into the sea intact.....

There are reports of some of the Pan Am passengers still being alive after they hit the ground. Though not for very long.

[Le Rosbif]

this has nothing to do with the pilot (half) breaking a wind, right?

[Menelaus]

There are reports of some of the Pan Am passengers still being alive after they hit the ground. Though not for very long.

Read that at the time - still strapped into their seats; only became clear in the post-mortems.

, not to mention

[Zippy]

There are reports of some of the Pan Am passengers still being alive after they hit the ground. Though not for very long.

I heard that too - pretty awful though they wouldn't have known much about it.

Seriously though, wouldn't a failure like that most likely be a bomb? I know the Airbus planes are all fly by wire so if the computer systems go down the pilots have no means of control (the cockpit looks like the space shuttle).

[FSM with Cheddar]

I hope they find out why it broke up.

[Le Rosbif]

Seriously though, wouldn't a failure like that most likely be a bomb? I know the Airbus planes are all fly by wire so if the computer systems go down the pilots have no means of control (the cockpit looks like the space shuttle).

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/...100200041.html

Terrorism a possible cause for AF447 death plunge

[FSM with Cheddar]

Seriously though, wouldn't a failure like that most likely be a bomb? I know the Airbus planes are all fly by wire so if the computer systems go down the pilots have no means of control (the cockpit looks like the space shuttle).

If it was flying too slow through a storm, then it could easily break up. The airframe can't cope with the load put on it by the changes in airpressure caused by the storm.