The black box contains the plane’s cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder, key information that investigators need to figure out what caused the fatal crash. The UPS plane that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, lost one of its engines shortly after takeoff.
Imagine what the driver felt like watching this unfold before his eyes - and his dash-cm.You can see the grey pickup spin out of three way just as the plane burst in to flames. The flight was scheduled to fly direct to Honolulu from there, so it's tanks were completely filled - with 32,000 gallons of avgas. Frightening... ...
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You mean jet fuel not avgas..
ReplyDelete32,000 gallons of Jet A, essentially kerosene, AVGAS is high octane gasoline, quite a difference between the two
ReplyDeleteIt is NOT AV Gas, that is gasoline, the jet engines uses Kerosene fuel which is a lot less flammable than gasoline. Course a big crash like that it does not matter how less flammable the fuel is, one vaporized the fuel goes boom.
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Jet fuel is not avgas.
ReplyDelete"32,000 gallons of avgas.
ReplyDeleteKerosene...
Pickup guy had the right idea. Get gone, now!!
ReplyDeleteWe know pretty much nothing at this point beyond the basic visuals. That is the approach to take right now. That being said I have questions. The aircraft looks to be at the end of its take off run, already did rotation and it is juuuust lifting off. BUT, the left engine looks to be already fully engulfed in flame. The fire did not start after takeoff. So, were the audio and visual fire warnings alerting in the flight deck? Were the pilots aware of the fire? If so, why did they not do an emergency shut down, cutting the throttles and hitting the brakes? Yes, that would have been catastrophic, too, with that huge weight of fuel, but there was no reason to go airborne and risk just what happened.
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