abelard wrote on Tue, 07 May 2019 16:02:45
+0200:

On Tue, 7 May 2019 14:00:05 -0000 (UTC), Incubus
wrote:

On 2019-05-07, Keema's Nan wrote:
On 7 May 2019, abelard wrote
(in ):

On Mon, 06 May 2019 18:49:45 +0100, Keema's Nan
wrote:

On 6 May 2019, Byker wrote
(in ):

"MM" wrote in message ...

It was announced on this morning's Sky News that a lot more
passengersmight have escaped down the front slides if people had not
stopped tocollect luggage from the overhead lockers.

Could one not make the case that every passenger seen on the tarmac*with
luggage* should be prosecuted for collective manslaughter?

Check out "Airplaneski" (1995) sometime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umr6JY6f2fw

Things have improved somewhat, but Aeroflot still has a LONG way to go...

A long way to go to do what?

Emulate the superb safety record of Boeing aircraft?

Any flying metal tube can be struck by lightning.

they are lowering the metal content of the skin...
i'm not sue if that is entirely a good idea

I think that the fuselage would act like a Faraday Cage, but the main problem
is what the various electrical and electromagnetic fields and brief power
surges will do to the onboard computers - which are in control these days. I
imagine that the results of a lightning strike would be somewhat random on
the aircraft’s electrics.

This is not the sort of thing you want at 35000ft, but at least up there the
crew have a few minutes to attempt to gain control and/or re-boot the
computers. This is not a possibility if the aircraft is on its final approach
at a few thousand feet above the ground.

I understand that aeroplanes being struck by lightning is a commonplace
occurrence. The electrics will be shielded.

russian 'technology'!


How much 'technology' does it take to build a metal box?


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