Page 2 - Engine Flameout News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Believe it was the plane itself. the plane's maximum climb rate is 3,500 feet per minute. a pilot would never do that to the plane because you risk a dual engine flameout. you risk losing your engines. i think the weather was so violent and strong it was forcing the plane up and slamming it down. if it got near the top of the anvil cloud formation, there is a lot of hail and bad stuff. >> a harrowing scenario to hear about. obviously, david, it would help investigators tremendously if they could find the black boxes. why do you think they are not hearing the pinging? >> this could be a lot of ...

Corridor. the pilots are experienced flying through that. we're often told turbulence doesn't bring planes down. what would it take for weather to put a plane like this in danger? >> well for weather to put a plane like this in danger usually what happens in the accidents i've worked is several things have happened in addition to the weather. there's been very bad weather and then the weather did something to the plane, caused some kind of a malfunction like on 447, the pitot tubes iced over. on 708, there was a problem with the engines and the pilots thought it was a dual engine flameout. the...

>> one of the people close to the investigation says they believe the plane may have been taken to a high altitude. perhaps 40,000 feet or more programs to renter the passengers unconscious. is that even possible? wouldn't the overhead oxygen have automatically deployed? >> yes, they would have. just taken the plane up to 45,000 feet wouldn't have automatically depreciatized the plane any way. i worked a case nam of years back where they took to it 42,000 feet. the biggest risk baltimore your engines couldn't handle it. you have to climb at a slow rate of speed, particularly at that altitude. ...