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Up that comes on tuesday . Good evening. A british man has died and 47 others have been injured after a flight from heathrow hit severe turbulence on its way to singapore. Passengers say within seconds of the Seat Belt Sign being turned on the aircraft plummeted thousands of feet, throwing passengers, crew and belongings around the cabin. It fell with such force that some hit with force and went through the plastic ceiling of the plane, where the oxygen masks are routinely fitted. The flight dat...

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The significance of what marks would be on that flaperon if it were engaged, if it were trying to glide into the water as opposed to just being a part of the wing surface and not being in movement or in motion at the time? what does that indicate? >> well, i understand what youre asking and its a critically important question. a flaperon would be deployed in a downward position along with the flap of the airplane which elongates the wing surface and essentially provides more lift for a plane to ...

Thrown off in the air. signature damage. second possibly here touch flying along at a level stance they were running out of the fuel and trying to land on the water. very difficult to do. in that case the flaggeren would be deploys down like this to slow the plane down to crazy more wing surface, down to about 150 miles an hour thats still really fast. the impact would produce tremendous torque tearing and damage probably a lot of it lot the front side. then theres the possibility of an explosio...

Which rolls the plane to the left and right. and then it has a series of flaps that come down and extend the wing surface which e longigates slong gat longigate longigate. >> you see that in landing and take off? >> it does. now the flaperon is a combination of the flap and the aileron. the flap helps it go slower. the aileron helps it go left and right. the flaperon is a smaller piece of the wing. when they are rolling left to right will act as an aileron. when they are landing it will act as a...

Lightning strike. you say every strain is struck essentially every year. do the passengers feel that at all or is it just the pilot? >> actually, many times you are struck with a lightning bolt in the back of the aircraft. >> you will never hear it, never know it sometimes on a preflight inspection you will see tiny little holes in the wing surface -- not holes but dents and you you know have you been hit somewhere along the line. in my case the perfectly perforated with thousands of holes. >> w...