Air Crash Investigations
I was watching Air Crash Investigations last night as I normally do (I am sad to hear it is the end of the season). I am very interested in Air Safety.
Anyway it was about a U.S. Navy vessel U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly indentifying an Iranian Airbus A300 on route to Bahrain in 1988 as a F-14 fighter and therefore shot it down, 290 lives where lost. This in itself was a design flaw in the ship because as the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane left the tracker on the runaway not following the plane. Other causes effect the the eventual outcome such as the Navy vessel was in Irany waters not international.
The naval officer did radio the plane about 3 times before ship fire the missiles but the pilots were confused because their airspeed didn't match that of the naval ships reading of their airspeed yet there are a few things that the U.S naval investigation into failed to address for example the sqwak code (which in non-technical terms is a radio pulse that plane transmits so it can be tracked by air traffic control) was not radioed to the pilots of the Airbus.
Another interesting factor was that the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane claimed that the plane was decending but everybody knows that commercial airlines don't decend unless they are trying to land which this one was not. Even on the computer in the naval ship it said it was ascending all the captain had to do was look at his monitor yet he failed to do so, during the investigation this was examined but nothing was done about it .
Now this is unfair to the Iranian families that lost loved ones, people should have to pay for their negligence.
The Investigation was that it was the iranies fault for parking a f-14 behind a commercial airliner but really that wasn't there fault, it is just another case of the US government bullying smaller governments.
My opinion is that the sqwak code should be transferred and the tracking of plans on naval ships be improved which I hope has been done, also The US government needs to stop thinking that other countries people don't matter.
here is the link if you are interested
Crash info on this accident
Also it is sad to hear that a plane in Russia crashed into the blacksea due to bad weather last Wednesday killing 113, another case of mis-information.
Anyway it was about a U.S. Navy vessel U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly indentifying an Iranian Airbus A300 on route to Bahrain in 1988 as a F-14 fighter and therefore shot it down, 290 lives where lost. This in itself was a design flaw in the ship because as the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane left the tracker on the runaway not following the plane. Other causes effect the the eventual outcome such as the Navy vessel was in Irany waters not international.
The naval officer did radio the plane about 3 times before ship fire the missiles but the pilots were confused because their airspeed didn't match that of the naval ships reading of their airspeed yet there are a few things that the U.S naval investigation into failed to address for example the sqwak code (which in non-technical terms is a radio pulse that plane transmits so it can be tracked by air traffic control) was not radioed to the pilots of the Airbus.
Another interesting factor was that the naval officer in charge of tracking the plane claimed that the plane was decending but everybody knows that commercial airlines don't decend unless they are trying to land which this one was not. Even on the computer in the naval ship it said it was ascending all the captain had to do was look at his monitor yet he failed to do so, during the investigation this was examined but nothing was done about it .
Now this is unfair to the Iranian families that lost loved ones, people should have to pay for their negligence.
The Investigation was that it was the iranies fault for parking a f-14 behind a commercial airliner but really that wasn't there fault, it is just another case of the US government bullying smaller governments.
My opinion is that the sqwak code should be transferred and the tracking of plans on naval ships be improved which I hope has been done, also The US government needs to stop thinking that other countries people don't matter.
here is the link if you are interested
Crash info on this accident
Also it is sad to hear that a plane in Russia crashed into the blacksea due to bad weather last Wednesday killing 113, another case of mis-information.
posted by Chuckster at 5:38 AM
2 Comments:
I didn't crash the other night. I made it home alive thanks to your store.
that is very good to hear that you are alive and kicking.
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