+MS804 #EGYPTAIR MS804 - ACARS update & comment:
ACARS report (reproduced at the end of this article) received from Aviation Herald http://avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0 :
which reports are automatically transmitted by the aircraft via satellite shows various alerts prior to aircraft transponder going off. Most serious is Smoke in the Avionics bay and Smoke in Lavatory near cockpit which could have come from the Avionics bay.
This could explain why the Aircraft did not respond to Greek ATC and did not transmit any emergency message prior to its rapid descent. A fire in the avionics bay could have destroyed the avionics and affected the flight computers. ...
ACARS report (reproduced at the end of this article) received from Aviation Herald http://avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0 :
which reports are automatically transmitted by the aircraft via satellite shows various alerts prior to aircraft transponder going off. Most serious is Smoke in the Avionics bay and Smoke in Lavatory near cockpit which could have come from the Avionics bay.
This could explain why the Aircraft did not respond to Greek ATC and did not transmit any emergency message prior to its rapid descent. A fire in the avionics bay could have destroyed the avionics and affected the flight computers. ...
The cause of the fire is not known. It could have come from a device placed there by a member of the technical staff who could have accessed the bay at one of the airports the aircraft called at.
The fire could have been caused by some other technical fault with the wiring or equipment in the Avionics bay.
This info excludes a traditional explosive bomb, although does not rule out terrorism altogether. It probably also excludes the pilots or on board crew. The avionics bay on the A320 can only be accessed from outside the aircraft using a hatch when its on the ground.
It does not rule out the possiblity of pilot error in reaction to the fire. E.g. the fire would have caused alarms in the cocpit to go off and would have affected the flight computers flying the aircraft on autopilot.
Assuming the fire was not too serious, the pilots would need to have switched off the autopilot & to have attempted to ascertain whether they were able to still fly manually. At night, and at high alitutude, one has to ensure that the aircraft does not stall. In AF447 the pilots failed in this respect. I explain all of this in my free eBook
: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/526079
00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT
no further ACARS messages were received
Siegfried Walther 21 May 2016 See also: comments on #MH370 http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.co.za/2015/10/mh370-clive-irvings-deadly-cargo.html
The fire could have been caused by some other technical fault with the wiring or equipment in the Avionics bay.
This info excludes a traditional explosive bomb, although does not rule out terrorism altogether. It probably also excludes the pilots or on board crew. The avionics bay on the A320 can only be accessed from outside the aircraft using a hatch when its on the ground.
It does not rule out the possiblity of pilot error in reaction to the fire. E.g. the fire would have caused alarms in the cocpit to go off and would have affected the flight computers flying the aircraft on autopilot.
Assuming the fire was not too serious, the pilots would need to have switched off the autopilot & to have attempted to ascertain whether they were able to still fly manually. At night, and at high alitutude, one has to ensure that the aircraft does not stall. In AF447 the pilots failed in this respect. I explain all of this in my free eBook
: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/526079
00:26Z 3044 ANTI ICE R WINDOW
00:26Z 561200 R SLIDING WINDOW SENSOR
00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE
00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE
00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR
00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT
00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT
no further ACARS messages were received
Siegfried Walther 21 May 2016 See also: comments on #MH370 http://siegfriedwalther.blogspot.co.za/2015/10/mh370-clive-irvings-deadly-cargo.html
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