they also have a sonar system that will more than likely tell you where in the water the plane hit within 50 feet or so. they'll never release the data, because you could figure out exactly how accurate our sonar systems are.
My dad was on Ascencion in the late 50's and watched a severly overloaded transport take off by using all of the runway and just raising the gear as the island dropped away beneath them. He said being on the island for another weekw as worth it to not have been on that flight.
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ReplyDeleteheh
"They build all of runway, I USE all of runway."
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much it was over Max Gross Weight it was.
That is one big, heavy, sumbitch. The fact that it could get off the ground at all is pretty amazing.
ReplyDeletePerth, AUS in November 2008... NOT the first time they've done that. They were doing the same thing when searching for MH370...
ReplyDeleteI watched an AN-225 use every inch of 9,500' rwy at Fresno.
ReplyDeleteThey were loaded to the gills with American Jet A.
"Searching for MH370" ☺
ReplyDeleteThe USA has a tracking system that knows the exact location of every plane on Earth at any moment,so......
they also have a sonar system that will more than likely tell you where in the water the plane hit within 50 feet or so. they'll never release the data, because you could figure out exactly how accurate our sonar systems are.
DeleteMy dad was on Ascencion in the late 50's and watched a severly overloaded transport take off by using all of the runway and just raising the gear as the island dropped away beneath them. He said being on the island for another weekw as worth it to not have been on that flight.
ReplyDeleteHoly. Crap. It looked like he was practically over the dirt when he yanked it off.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Ivan...
That was my comment about the "HUGE Russian transport" and that is the plane.
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