I watched the live helicopter video on FOX online for a bit shortly
after
the crash. There was a debris field of small parts starting in the
water
and all over the underrun. One main gear truck was lying on the runway
very
close to the approach end. It looked like horizontal and vertical tail
surfaces there too along with a trail of small debris. Looks to me that
this thing started coming apart before it touched down. The tail
appeared
to break off cleanly just aft of the aft pressure bulkhead. It really
looked to me like the tail hit something, but I can't imagine what.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of
Michael
Canfield
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 8:57 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Cause of Frisco crash: Poor piloting plus no glide
path?
Sounds like someone is in a world of trouble.
Mike
On Jul 7, 2013 8:41 AM, "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
snip....A San Francisco airport spokesman said a component of the
airport's
instrument landing system that tracks an incoming aeroplane's glide
path
has
been out of service in recent weeks and was not operational on
Saturday.
Pilots and air safety experts said the glide path technology was far
from
essential for a safe landing in good weather. But Chesley "Sully"
Sullenberger, a retired pilot and safety consultant who gained fame for
landing a plane safely in the Hudson river in 2009, said investigators
would
certainly be looking into the issue.
"The pilots would have had to rely solely on visual cues to fly the
proper
glide path to the runway, and not have had available to them the
electronic
information that they typically have even in good weather at most major
airports," he told a local TV news channel....snip
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