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> wing cut off by passing UFO' type incidents Just a side note: the loss of a wing is one the "exceptions" that go deliberately "unhandled". Not even sensors a
by myth2018 3y ago
> wing cut off by passing UFO' type incidents
Just a side note: the loss of a wing is one the "exceptions" that go deliberately "unhandled". Not even sensors and alerts are implemented -- after all, it's such an unlikely event, unrecoverable from, and they would simply add weight and complexity just to let the crew know the plane is doomed.
This sadly happened, though, with flight Gol 1907 in 2006. The wing was cut off by a crash with another plane in-flight. You can hear in the voice recorder the warnings about the plane falling off the safety envelope (and no mention to the lost wing ofc), and it's really sad how lost the crew gets during the seconds between the loss of the wing and the airplane destruction.
- londons_explore 3y agoInterestingly there are lots of 'unusual' flight modes that actually stay aloft, especially if you are able to throttle up/down and move actuators very fast (ie. 10 Hz). I could totally imagine some existing planes being able to do some. Quadcopter and drone hobbyists demo them sometimes. Eg. https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/your-quadcopter-has-three-propellers-too-many/ https://hackaday.com/2016/05/04/your-quadcopter-has-three-pr...
- myth2018 3y agoInteresting indeed. There was an Israeli pilot who managed to land an F-15 with a single wing [0]. That was considered impossible by then. I couldn't find a link, but I think that, more recently, they were trying to reproduce the feat using the possibilities offered by automation. That would be a desirable feature in military aircraft indeed. However, I'm not sure whether that would be physically possible in airliners. The lift provided by the fuselage is too little. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision