What was the big boom?
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Anonymous
I’m sorry I meant diverted to other airports. |
Anonymous
Maybe. I just heard that they told other airplanes in the area to stay away from the Cessna, which would divert traffic to other lanes. |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
| How do they know depressurization or hypoxia were the reason the pilot and passenger could not respond to orders? Could something else have been going on? Is this from an official announcement? Wouldn't they have to do an autopsy to come to this conclusion? I am ignorant - I had to look up the definition of hypoxia. |
Anonymous
You misunderstood my question. Supposedly an air traffic controller somewhere knew this plane was approaching. Someone knew the plane took off. How does the plane not show up to land and then fly around (possibly putting lives on the ground at risk) with no one noticing for so long? I understand hypoxia. Autopilot is not an answer. |
Anonymous
How can no one notice this for so long? |
Anonymous
I think people familiar with private civil air accidents and the risks of flying recognize the events as fitting a pattern and are hypothesizing this. One could imagine a lot of other things - each more improbable. But yes, strictly speaking, until they find the black box and anything it recorded that would validate the hypothesis or perhaps, somehow, some remains that might indicate this happened to the passengers — or something else — I do not think this is yet known for sure, strictly speaking. This BBC article doesn't, for example, repeat hypoxia/depressurization even as a qualified possibility (I think it'd be entirely fair if they did). They emphasize this the root cause is unknown so far. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65808194 |
Anonymous
If there was depressurization and hypoxia it likely affected all the passengers. From various reporting, it seems like it was noticed not long after it failed to land at its intended destination and took one that straight-line apparently auto-pilot guided route. There were attempts to contact it over radio, with flares from escorting/intervening planes, etc. It also wasn't an explicit threat to anyone else so I think there was an abundance of caution (and only so much that could be done, short of shooting it down had it become a threat). |
Anonymous
Autopilot was only the last portion of the journey - the part that was very much noticed. |
Anonymous
What do you mean? The air traffic controllers knew the plane was flying erratically and that it was unresponsive. Are you asking when they knew it? Probably pretty quick but I think you could figure this out from looking at the communications. |
Anonymous
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Reminds me of Payne Stewart’s plane crash. Plane lost pressure and flew for almost 4 hours before crashing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_crash |
Anonymous
You know how when someone flings a whip like Indiana Jones there is a loud cracking sound? Well, they're breaking the sound barrier. Now imagine that loud whip cracking sound on a scales orders of magnitude more powerful with a jet engine. You make an lotta noise. |
Anonymous
The F-16 pilots that were deployed apparently had visual contact with the plane. If they saw that the windows were frosted, this would indicate depressurization. This is what happened with the Payne Stewart crash. |
Anonymous
| I didn’t realize how many people have never experienced a sonic boom. I lived in CA about 40 miles from Edwards AFB and heard them too many times to count. Edwards is/was a testing site for AF, Boeing, and Northrop so it makes sense. |
Anonymous
Why only one boom instead of multiple (one for each jet)? |