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I thought they were to heavy to reach the high orbit of the space station ?
If they had known, the crew could have stayed at the space station for a very long time until either nasa or russia sent a rescue ship(s).
Nasa did know about the foam strike before re-entry, but did not conclude that it posed a serious risk. Ooops...
I am guessing they don't want to release it because it looks so bad for the pilots. They want to wait until everything is looked at before they say they simply stalled it, which the data seems to show. Just my guess.
NTSB already released preliminary airspeed data.
Chealander says the crew's intended landing configuration was with 15° of flap, and that initial calculations put the Q400's weight at 55,000lb (24,950kg) with a reference speed of 119kt - this rose by 20kt, to 139kt, as a result of the precautionary activation of a switch to increase stall margins. Preliminary flight-data evidence puts the aircraft's calibrated airspeed at 134kt, but Chealander warns against reading too much into the early figures.
Calibrated airspeed (CAS) is the speed shown by a conventional airspeed indicator after correction for instrument error and position error.
From what I read, they were doing 134kias before all hell broke lose.ok, but what was it when the stall warning activated, what was it when the power was added, what was it when they pitched up to 31 degrees, how many g's in the pitch up...etc
I hope for the crews memory that it was a freak accident and not pilot error.
Calibrated airspeed (CAS) is the speed shown by a conventional airspeed indicator after correction for instrument error and position error.
I hope for the crews memory that it was a freak accident and not pilot error.