EgyptAir flight crash - New clues emerged Friday about EgyptAir Flight 804, but there were no answers as to what acquired the even to go down in the Mediterranean Sea.
There were smoke alerts abreast the aeroplane cockpit aboriginal Thursday in the account afore it crashed, according to flight abstracts CNN acquired Friday from an Egyptian source.
The abstracts came through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting Arrangement (ACARS), a abstracts hotlink for sending letters amid planes and arena facilities. A awning grab of abstracts has time stamps that bout the almost time the aircraft went missing.
The alerts don't necessarily beggarly a blaze occurred on the even or that the aggregation even knew about the alerts, which are automatically transmitted, aerodynamics experts cautioned.
Still missing are the a lot of important clue: the flight abstracts and cockpit articulation recorders, sometimes alleged the "black boxes."
"(The data) doesn't acquaint us anything, whether it's an access because of a bomb or because of a automated fault, but anon it anchorage down the breadth that we're searching at," CNN aerodynamics analyst Richard Quest said. "We're now no best afraid about wings or what abroad ability accept happened, or added flight ascendancy surfaces."
The even accustomed 66 humans abolished while aerial from Paris to Cairo.
Egyptian admiral say they doubtable terrorism, but no accumulation has appear advanced to affirmation credit.
No survivors accept been found, but searchers in the Mediterranean Sea amid bits on Friday, including accoutrements and animal remains.
Data beatific over a few minutes
Aviation experts captivated altered angle of what the ACARS abstracts may signify.
There were break of problems with a acrimonious window in the cockpit, a sliding window in the cockpit, smoke in the lavatory, smoke in the avionics alcove beneath the cockpit, a anchored window, the auto pilot and the flight ascendancy system.
"It could accept been either something automated that had failed, a abbreviate circuit, or it could accept been an damaging accessory of some affectionate as well," CNN aerodynamics analyst David Soucie said.
He said it was cogent that the abstracts was beatific over a aeon of one to two minutes.
"Now if it it was a bomb, the appropriate bomb ... (it) would accept burst the derma of the aircraft," Soucie said. "This is not the adumbration you would accept had, because a bomb that would do that would be instantaneous, and these letters would not accept gone over two account like they do."
According to an aerodynamics official and a above FAA official, the ACARS data, however, could be constant with a adverse abortion -- be it from an advised act or automated breakdown.
The aerodynamics official said if there was a blaze on lath a plane, it would tend to bake apathetic abundant for pilots to forward an emergency message. These letters could accept been a aftereffect of affairs shorting out and adulterated as the even bankrupt apart.
The aerodynamics official said the messages, while random, would be constant with what would be beatific by a arrangement on a even that is falling apart.
There accept been electrical problems with window anti-ice heaters in A320s. In 2003, the FAA appropriate windshields replaced in all A320s in the United States. It's not accepted whether Egypt followed the FAA directive.
There were smoke alerts abreast the aeroplane cockpit aboriginal Thursday in the account afore it crashed, according to flight abstracts CNN acquired Friday from an Egyptian source.
The abstracts came through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting Arrangement (ACARS), a abstracts hotlink for sending letters amid planes and arena facilities. A awning grab of abstracts has time stamps that bout the almost time the aircraft went missing.
The alerts don't necessarily beggarly a blaze occurred on the even or that the aggregation even knew about the alerts, which are automatically transmitted, aerodynamics experts cautioned.
Still missing are the a lot of important clue: the flight abstracts and cockpit articulation recorders, sometimes alleged the "black boxes."
"(The data) doesn't acquaint us anything, whether it's an access because of a bomb or because of a automated fault, but anon it anchorage down the breadth that we're searching at," CNN aerodynamics analyst Richard Quest said. "We're now no best afraid about wings or what abroad ability accept happened, or added flight ascendancy surfaces."
The even accustomed 66 humans abolished while aerial from Paris to Cairo.
Egyptian admiral say they doubtable terrorism, but no accumulation has appear advanced to affirmation credit.
No survivors accept been found, but searchers in the Mediterranean Sea amid bits on Friday, including accoutrements and animal remains.
Data beatific over a few minutes
Aviation experts captivated altered angle of what the ACARS abstracts may signify.
There were break of problems with a acrimonious window in the cockpit, a sliding window in the cockpit, smoke in the lavatory, smoke in the avionics alcove beneath the cockpit, a anchored window, the auto pilot and the flight ascendancy system.
"It could accept been either something automated that had failed, a abbreviate circuit, or it could accept been an damaging accessory of some affectionate as well," CNN aerodynamics analyst David Soucie said.
He said it was cogent that the abstracts was beatific over a aeon of one to two minutes.
"Now if it it was a bomb, the appropriate bomb ... (it) would accept burst the derma of the aircraft," Soucie said. "This is not the adumbration you would accept had, because a bomb that would do that would be instantaneous, and these letters would not accept gone over two account like they do."
According to an aerodynamics official and a above FAA official, the ACARS data, however, could be constant with a adverse abortion -- be it from an advised act or automated breakdown.
The aerodynamics official said if there was a blaze on lath a plane, it would tend to bake apathetic abundant for pilots to forward an emergency message. These letters could accept been a aftereffect of affairs shorting out and adulterated as the even bankrupt apart.
The aerodynamics official said the messages, while random, would be constant with what would be beatific by a arrangement on a even that is falling apart.
There accept been electrical problems with window anti-ice heaters in A320s. In 2003, the FAA appropriate windshields replaced in all A320s in the United States. It's not accepted whether Egypt followed the FAA directive.
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