Clem Tillier

Stuttgart

accidentally shipped to the wrong Washington

Probably needs a good rail grinding. Extra howl is from corrugation of the rail surface.

Cajon Pass is where electric locomotives paired with existing diesels as slugs (prime mover off) would excel.

Another way of thinking about this is uphill trains can be mostly powered by downhill trains.

Same with step-free level boarding, its primary benefit is not to improve accessibility.

It is to enable shorter station dwells which reduces travel time and thereby … ditto

Why does the unit number appear twice? Is this some weird number board fetish?

Masked Assassins Guild of America was right there

An EV will help you avoid issues like having spark plugs

How to identify American fascists as stated by our own US government in March of 1945.

“It’s expensive to be poor”

This is the way

Tea is in the board brief www.caltrain.com/media/36365/...

You are such a clazzik

Whoa we’re bombing Venezuepstein!

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

Why wouldn’t it make sense at $250k?

But that’s okay, the FDR memory chips will tell the story of what happened, however unlikely it was!

To this I can only say that the best-engineered redundancy schemes can still be undone by an unanticipated common mode failure. The physical layout and routing of 777 wire harnessing is not on the public internet (for good reason!) which makes “researching” this nigh impossible to someone like me.

Right. So under those hypothetical circumstances, it might make sense to fly for several hours to troubleshoot, although I can’t explain the final destination. (I’ve enjoyed this exchange!)

Would this be something you rush to try for the first time with over 200 souls on board? Or would you want to take extra time to study the problem, away from a busy airspace in which you can no longer communicate?

No throttle control might be a bigger problem than no radio (also in the pedestal, by the way) … initial turn is consistent with trying to reach closest airfield, and then possible struggle to figure out how to descend into Penang. But how, with engines stuck at cruise?

Again, speculating, if the (redundant) wiring routed from the throttle quadrant in the pedestal down to the EE bay is severed, you can fly the plane but you probably lose any control of the engines, which continue at last throttle setting until fuel exhaustion.

We do know that if a malfunction occurred, its effect could not have been so severe as to make the plane impossible to control. A pilot obviously did fly mh370 for a long while.

Fascinating read, thank you

The differential overpressure from a burst bottle would likely cause structural failure of cockpit floor, which probably contains important wire harnesses running between pedestal and EE bay. What would happen if you severed those connections?

I don’t know enough about the physical layout of B777 avionics and harnessing (few people do, and certainly not pilots) but I suspect there might be a physically reasonable explanation for how a COPV failure leads to loss of ADS-B and other systems located in cockpit pedestal

That timing is indeed a bit odd, but hardly a smoking gun. I don’t have a definite answer, but if a COPV failed on the first flight cycle after a refill, not long after top of climb, would that be odd timing?

When those memory chips are retrieved from the FDR, things will become obvious in hindsight. The difficulty we have today with foresight of a malfunctions is that complex systems can fail in complex ways.

That’s right, malfunctions are very difficult to think about, but that difficulty shouldn’t let us become cognitively biased towards easier explanations like hijacking. Something being difficult to conceive doesn’t make it less likely… or less obvious when hindsight becomes available. Occam fails!