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Question About Mid-Air Collisions
On Sep 15, 2:46*pm, jason219
wrote: Hello everyone. *I'm preparing a mock press conference for one of my college classes. In my particular scenario, I am the public relations head of a top international airliner. Three hours into the flight, one of our planes was involved in a mid-air collision (whether it was with another aircraft or another object, I am not sure). The plane is still airborne but is only able to fly higher and to the right. All attempts to make a left turn or decrease altitude have failed. I need some expert knowledge on what would happen in this situation. Judging by the damage, is it possible to land the plane safely? *Is an emergency landing feasible? If so, what would the steps necessary be to execute it and how long (roughly) would that take? Thank you for your help! -- jason219 An aircraft failure causing a set of conditions that would induce a climbing attitude and right turns only is probably more likely now than it ever had been: other posters have been assuming a mechanical failure and have overlooked the possibility of an electronic or computer malfunction induced by the midair. Think of a fly by wire computer failure, think of HAL in the movie 2001. Then the question becomes, what happens when the airplane reaches its maximum altitude: Airplanes way up there are touchy beasts, my guess is at fuel exhaustion some perturbation to induce an out of aerodynamic control airplane. It's going to come down, if there's control authority it will mush down with a nose high attitude, more likely it will be falling out of the sky. You, the PR guy, will have an interesting task because although HAL can control the airplane, it cannot control the use of the cell phones aboard it. The passengers will be telling their families what is happening to them, and for sure at least CNN will be broadcasting at least one of the telephone conversations and the images being transmitted over the phone network. I can hear some reporter now, asking someone aboard the airplane "How do you feel?" |
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