Originally Posted by
zoran
Headphones off, I looked to the guy next to me who asked me of I had heard the terrible noise before. “What noise?” (thanks, Bose!). “Looks like we lost the bottom of the plane.”, he said confidently.
Could the terrible noise have been the ram air turbine (RAT) operating to power the hydraulic systems? (For that matter, does the 757 have a RAT?)