Originally Posted by
pr0digy25
Only caught a brief segment of the press conference live... but they had a computer simulation showing what happened.
Curiously enough the simulation stops as the front gear leaves the runway and the investigator said something to the effect of "this is where the flight recorders stopped due to the shock of leaving the runway".
I call BS on this one... these things are designed to 3,600 G's of force and they "stopped working" at the end of the runway.
Makes me wonder if Canada lacking the equipment and budget to examine the recorders themselves handed it over to Airbus for analysis and Airbus "truncated" the data to prevent the release of anything that may play them in an unfavourable light (as is speculated in the AF 296 flight in 1988)?
Here is the link to the simluation drawn from the FDR information:
Air France Flight Animation (A05H0002)
Information on the FDR is located here:
1.11 Flight Recorders
In response to your "wondering", no Airbus was not involved with the FDR evaluation and the report indicates that, "The FDR stopped recording at 2002:23, four seconds after the aircraft left the runway." This is actually not that unusual and has been the subject of other safety recommendations indicating that the data recorders should have an independent power supply to ensure that recording continues when main power on board the aircraft is interrupted or lost.