From: jbates31@tiscali.co.uk   
      
   "Bertie the Bunyip"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Bertie the Bunyip"  wrote in message   
   >> news:Xns9A2AA8B8E5950pissupropeeh@207.14.116.130...   
   >>> "john bates"  wrote in   
   >>> news:47921f43$1_3@mk-nntp- 2.news.uk.tiscali.com:   
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   >>>> Please could an expert here tell me. If with a total loss   
   >>>> of electric power would all control of a/c be the result?   
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   >>>> If (as a few ground observers have stated) the high nose   
   >>>> attitude and apparent stall from 100/200 foot is true and   
   >>>> the pilot had had control would he not have pushed the   
   >>>> stick forward to increase the glide distance/ Or choose to   
   >>>> pancake onto the grass and avoid all the resultant sparks?   
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   >>> He probably had the flight controls operating. He would have had no   
   >>> surplus   
   >>> speed at that point anyway Pointing the nose down would not increase   
   >>> the glide, they would not have made the airport perimiter had he done   
   >>> that. They made it. They were lucky. End of story.   
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   >>> Bertie   
   >> ***Thank you, without total electrics e,g, no power for servos   
   >> is there some form of mechanical links to control surfaces?   
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   > No, no mechanical link, but the controls are hydraulic and they would   
   > have been powered. The computers have dedicated generators and   
   > batteries, so they should have been OK, but the accident is so weird   
   > anyway, who knows?   
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   > You'll have to wait for the report. I wouldn't think anyone knows what   
   > happened yet.   
      
   *** I agree, weird is a good discription of it. There are so many what if's   
   that can be used, like what if the fault had happened just a second or two   
   sooner - likely cut a path through the highway - a minute earlier god knows   
   where it would have finished up. Then if the water logged small piece of   
   grass had been concrete. One could go on.   
   Many thanks.   
   John.   
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