December 12, 2011

Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

Terrifying. But also, this gives so much clarity for those who have followed this story for the last few years. (Freakshow ME). I have always wondered, did the passengers have any idea?  Did they know they were falling out of the sky? Was it a terrible last few minutes? Was it indeed, a complete and utter nightmare?

And though there in severe turbulence, less than 2 minutes before the crash, the pilots still didn’t know they had decended over 20,000 feet. 

“The men briefly discuss, incredibly, whether they are in fact climbing or descending, before agreeing that they are indeed descending. As the plane approaches 10,000 feet, Robert tries to take back the controls, and pushes forward on the stick, but the plane is in “dual input” mode, and so the system averages his inputs with those of Bonin, who continues to pull back. The nose remains high.”


Which means that hopefully, they did not actually feel they were rapidly plunging into the ocean.  With the nose up, I hope it was some sort of illusion. Since it was late at night, I hope most of them were sleeping. And before they even had a chance to react, it was over.  This is still a horrifying accident, but to some degree, understanding what went wrong makes me feel slightly (just SLIGHTLY) better.

(Source: petervidani)

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May 15, 2012

Whoopie just asked the President if you can feel ‘the bumps’ on Air Force One.

I’ve never felt so connected to another human being in my life. To sane and rational people, this might seem like a silly question. To someone afraid of flying? Brilliant question. Give her (another) Emmy.

I have often wondered if the President gets the smoothest air. (This is something I might demand if I was the POTUS.)

He said you CAN but also, you have to figure Air Force One isn’t going down.

Way to jinx it Bams.

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October 15, 2012

Calling all my fellow fearful flyers…

I nearly have a heart attack slash suffer from other violent bodily reactions every time that damn Denzel Washington movie preview comes on.

Between Denzel proclaiming, “We are in a dive!” and the shot of the plane upside down…?

WHAT THE EF. And because I’m a masochist, I looked up whether it was possible for a plane to go into in a complete dive from 30,000 feet. Spoiler alert: It can, and it has.

So, never flying again or never flying again? Good times.

I prefer Denzel when he plays an angry cop or coach of some sort.

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