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The linked article also mentions the plane was smoking, and fire was coming from the engines. This is new information to me that I think is being overlooked, be
by kawfey 8y ago
The linked article also mentions the plane was smoking, and fire was coming from the engines. This is new information to me that I think is being overlooked, because if MCAS was enabled erroneously, it's unlikely the plane would have caught fire. The Lion Air Max 8 wasn't reported to be smoking/on fire.
If something else made the engine(s) catch fire and become inoperative, and the MCAS system enabled correctly due to low airspeed/stall conditions, but was fought by the panicked pilot(s) resulting in an unrecoverable stall, it's an entirely different story.
- anaphor 8y agoI hadn't heard that, but that's exactly why he says (in his latest video and here) to avoid too much speculation, because there are other things that could go wrong under similar conditions. Takeoff and landing are the most risky parts of a flight so it's no surprise that if there is going to be an issue, it would be during takeoff.
- jfk13 8y agoBear in mind that eyewitness reports of events like this are notoriously unreliable.[1,2] Yes, it may turn out that this incident bears no relation to the Lion Air one, but I think it's much too early to make any such assumption. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/ideas-trends-for-air-crash-detectives-seeing-isn-t-believing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/ideas-trends... [2] https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=ijaaa https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&co...
- anaphor 8y agoYep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect
- oldgradstudent 8y agoAlso, news reports about eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable.
- ahjones 8y agoAn engine compressor stall (which is more common at low altitude and high thrust) can cause fire to come from the engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE (jump to 1 minute for an example, found in an earlier HN thread).