02-24-2019, 07:18 PM
C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=Thrift Store Scott]
The incident is being discussed at some length here- http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1416323
If you can ignore the ever-present static of people who ask questions that have already been answered multiple times, it's worth a read.
That is a long thread, but I’m not sure I actually learned anything reading it. A lot of uninformed conjecture.
Oh absolutely, such is the way of Airliners.net, particularly since it stopped being a paid site. However, there are still posters there who do know what they're talking about to counteract and/or disprove the worst of the uninformed conjecture. The main things I've taken away from the thread so far is that the 767 is a very stable, forgiving aircraft to fly and that anything which would have taken out both engines at once (birds, hail, etc.) would not have brought down the aircraft in such a sudden manner on it's own because 767s glide very well with no power as evidenced by the "Gimli Glider" incident and from the altitude they were at they could have glided for up to 20 miles.