CCTV footage accessed and verified by the Associated Press showed Air India flight 171 bound for London taking off and crashing into a medical college in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing more than 180 people in one of India's worst airline disasters in decades.
  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    Yeah, it’s rather strange. There is another one from a perspective where the aircraft almost “overflew” the cameraman (basically at a 5’o clock angle)- it shows them having aileron and elevator control right until they crash. And while the quality is poor, I am somewhat convinced that the RAT has not deployed (yet?)

    A bird strike would likely have caused something visible So it doesn’t sound like hydraulics or fuel(water in the fueltanks?) or something electronic wise with the engine control. Strange and sad.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      I just saw that video and it is really strange. Not so much that rat hasn’t been deployed, I don’t think they lost hydraulics or electronics and I’m not sure they even reached the minimum speed where the rat would really help.

      The strange thing is that it didn’t really look like there was very much yaw or rolling which you would expect to see with a fuel system failure. They seemed to be flying straight as an arrow and gliding it down?

      Maybe something wrong with thrust control? Kinda crazy.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
        31·
        16 days ago

        Yeah,I am not sure if there is a safety interlock with Boeing RATs(and the video is really bad)…so it might be intentional.

        It’s strange. Personally I currently go with water in the fuel system as the “most likely guess by a armchair pilot”(me),but wouldn’t also be surprised being it an electronic error. When that would be the case Boeing would be fucked beyond repair,imho.

        • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          16 days ago

          Something wrong with the fuel system was my initial armchair guess, but I’m not so sure based off the second vid. One would expect to see some yaw or rolling in an underpowered or lost of power take off with a jet.

          Guess we’ll have to wait until someone more qualified explains it.

      • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
        English
        1·
        15 days ago

        Is it common for CCTV to track and follow all planes as they take off like the camera in this video seems to be?