From: kozelsm@comcast.net   
      
   On Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:16:12 AM UTC-4, nobod...@_INVALID_.org wrote:   
   > Obviously my sincerest sympathies to kin & family, including that of the    
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   > pilots!   
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   > Chris Goodfellow's idea of a smoke/fire situation is the best I've seen    
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   > sofar.   
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   > The airplane had possibly become unflyable even though they may have    
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   > supressed the fire.   
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   > The progressive shedding of an (among other places) e&e fire due to    
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   > early red-eye overloads would jive with the losses preceding the final    
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   > com failure and they may not have been aware of anything up to that very    
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   > point. IF the climb to 450 did in fact happen and was not false data it    
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   > may have been a desperate improvised attempt to get on top of a far more    
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   > severe situation than anything they had been prepared for. It may also    
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   > have been an uncomanded malfunction, their first sign of grave trouble.    
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   > The descent to 230 should also seem familiar to many pilots, there are    
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   > too many pieces that just plain fit. They may have gotten to Langkawi    
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   > but were by then either incapacitated or unable to do much else.   
      
   SwissAir Flight 111 was not a DC-10, it was an MD-11.  The AirCanada DC9   
   didn't land at Columbus Ohio, it landed at the Cincinnati airport.  Not to   
   pick nits, but those names have spaces (Swiss International Air Lines, and Air   
   Canada are the full names).    
    "If they pulled the busses the plane indeed would go silent." ==> that   
   statement has been refuted on an airline pilots forum, that the comms most   
   likely would have continued to operate; also, there was a 6,500 foot strip   
   much closer than the alternate    
   that was listed above (and Flight 111 proved how critical it is to land ASAP   
   when there is a fire)... You have to wonder who this Goodfellow guy is given   
   his more obvious errors.    
      
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