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I saw you mentioning this but the RAT on the 787 sticks out of the bottom and should have been visible at around :04 seconds into that video when the aircraft s
by Arch-TK 1y ago
I saw you mentioning this but the RAT on the 787 sticks out of the bottom and should have been visible at around :04 seconds into that video when the aircraft silhouette is visible clearly against the background.
Although it's possible I am just missing from the video. You are right that the sound is quite distinct and can be clearly heard in the video.
- consumer451 1y agoThe RAT is surprising tiny on the 787, and this is a phone video of a monitor, then run through Reddit compression. I am of course not 100% sure about any of this. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ95qKjo2w-eWEKSE-iYN-PRERIvBdr7A6sxA&s https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ95qKj... edit: here you might possibly see it on the right, a very tiny blurry thing https://imgur.com/a/CElWKzQ https://imgur.com/a/CElWKzQ source: https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1l9hqzp/air_india_flight_171_crash/mxcn99k/ https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1l9hqzp/air_india...
- Arch-TK 1y agoYeah I saw that picture and came back here. I think you are 100% right that the RAT is deployed. From the video of the runway it also seems like the aircraft didn't do a short takeoff (ADS-B location data is always crappy on the ground in my experience so this is entirely unsurprising). There was a "smoke cloud" from behind the left engine which could also have just been a dust cloud right after rotation. The flaps allegedly could be at only 5° (which is why they're so hard to spot) because of the runway inclination. The mystery thickens...