From: tye syding <bn@wy.no>
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,sac.politics
Subject: Re: Can't Blame Trump! All 80 aboard Delta flight survive after jet
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:03:35 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:02:14 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-18 15:24, tye syding wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:02:23 -0800
> > Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2025-02-18 13:38, tye syding wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:20:42 -0800
> >>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2025-02-18 12:14, tye syding wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:58:34 -0800
> >>>>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> you can't determine blame simply by looking at where an
> >>>>>> accident happened
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Of course you can where intense meterological conditions exist,
> >>>>> especially snowy runways, crosswinds and sudden downdrafts.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> No. That isn't about "where" it happened.
> >>>
> >>> You've lost all your marbles, snow mexican.
> >>>
> >>> Weather is intensely place-correlated.
> >> Sure... ...but "correlation is not causation".
> >
> > Bad weather was caused by location and atmospheric dynamics.
> >
> >> Bottom line:
> >>
> >> We don't know why this jet crashed.
> >
> > Yet.
> >
> > But we can see that video and the right wing catch and know that
> > slippery conditions and high crosswinds played a role.
> >
> > The NTSB workup will in time explain if the landing gear collapsed
> > or there were other factors.
> >
> > For now - weather.
> Actually, what was obvious that you've utterly failed to see is that
> the descent rate was FAR TOO HIGH.
That came out this morning.
Could be a microburst, or flaps malfunction, there are no black box
reading yet, are there?
Funny thing, as easily as it was to recover.