Why did the Philadelphia aircraft come down so fast?

 

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forward with a plane on the most circumstances at the word catastrophic has been bandied about all night that had to happen on board whether it was catastrophic engine failure in both engines in which case you would have expected that there would have been a m a call but listening to the the tape of the tower um they there was no M aall um or some kind of fuel exhaustion or fuel it wouldn't been fuel exhaustion but it would have been fuel contamination that took both engines out at the same time and then we get into the type of aircraft that is it's a it's a metac aircraft which has oxygen on board and my understanding that the police have found at least one oxygen tank far away from the scene that could indicate that it came out of the aircraft while aircraft was descending from 1 1600 ft it wasn't up that high well it was at600 feet then dropping you know 2400 feet per minute as you said you know shooting down to earth like a like a rocket um you can almost see it's it's traveling at this high speed Full Throttle nose down is a do you see a possib ility of maybe a stall and and would that result in that trajectory or no I I agree with the other guess I think that's highly unlikely I think there's something much more going on uh before the plane starts down um it really it really is out of control you could see it you could see something venting out of the plane as it's coming down if you look closely um and then finally when it hits the ground and makes that huge explosion why because it's full of fuel it's starting its trip back to Springfield um and so there's a lot of fuel on board almost 1,000 gallons of fuel and that's going to hit any spark is going to create a an explosion the likes of what we saw and yeah they will load Cloud covers so that's going to make the explosion look even worse but but frankly you know it it it you're looking at the amount of fires in the area that's from the airplane hitting the ground so hard that its fuel is spraying out and hitting the mall hitting the car that are in the vicinity and there there were I think three houses also that were on fire so would you say that the more likely scenario is that the airplane was in a nose down you know at altitude with with full throttles based on that velocity and how could that happen What scenario what What scenario would cause that well not not necessarily full throttle because it if it's starting to fall it's going to start picking up speed just from Gravity um but what could cause it there's a whole host of things and as I went through my usual list of trying to figure out what could have happened normally you know what do we normally see when we have an accident like this there are so many things that I couldn't check off yet because we don't know enough quite yet we've got to get more information it's going to be hard in this case because the the aircraft itself is consumed in the in the fire the ntsp is going to have their work cut out for one of the first things they'll do is they'll try to find the footprint of the airplane find out where the left wing is where the right wing is where all these things landed and where they land sometimes can help them determine how fast it was coming down and how much force there was used prior to the The Descent that we saw yeah well uh I want to give an update the the mayor of Philly said they they don't have any information on the fatalities the mayor mayor says everyone should stay away from the scene she confirmed what we all know that we lost an aircraft we don't have any further information if you see debris call 911 uh which I think is is good advice uh as I mentioned president Trump has commented publicly on Truth social uh quote so sad to see the plane go down in Philadelphia Pennsylvania more innocent souls are lost our people are totally engaged First Responders are already being given credit for doing a great job more to follow God bless you all um it's always sad to see something like that is it yeah it really is and I'm I'm glad to see President Trump is out in in front of this and Duffy is is involved secretary Duffy um it's good to get the the hups out there be the point people put people on give them some confidence in in the aviation system after the couple of days that we've just had it it's a little hard to do that but Aviation is safe the these two incidents are not related these two incidents are very different and when we get to the bottom of it we will that's what makes Aviation so safe we have the ntsp they will give us a probable cause at some point when they can and when they're sure of all the evidence and that's going to make Aviation even safer we have as aviators we have an obligation to do that for the people after us yeah we really do s we really appreciate your time as always thank you for being with us