tommy
Stay away from 27,000’ and all will be well…
Stay away from 27,000’ and all will be well…
Precisely what I was wondering.
The aircraft would be on autopilot, and was programmed to climb. While they sorted it out, they let the airplane do what it was doing - as long as it’s able - altitude, like fuel, allows you options.
Where did you read that the UAP guru was the pilot? As I read that he had a backdoor to the info re the “incident” and the pilots were spoken of in the third person.
Spies ?top secret, one passenger .CIA ?
I agree that seems very odd that they kept climbing after 27,000 ft. I could understand not switching off the autopilot immediately, but they flew another 4 minutes or so climbing up to 30,000, and increased their speed in the climb by about 20 knots. I suppose maybe the engine slowly lost power and failed, but I thought it was a pretty immediate failure once something goes into the fan blades.
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Reread the article. It said nothing of the sort.
That aircraft climbs very quick. Also that is the altitude that the jetstream usually operates. The speed increase was ground speed. Not uncommon when you suddenly pick up 70+ knots on the tail. The plane actually slowed 50 knots of airspeed. Quite common as power is lost. Turbine engines are much tougher than most think. They have even continued to run after ingesting people.
Not weird at all moon. A jet is climbing at several thousand feet a minute at FL270, getting to FL300 is a matter of 60 seconds. It probably took that long for the engine to roll back and the decision making process takes a free seconds as well. Remember, they only lost one engine, and they only had one passenger, so they were probably light and had a very high drift down altitude.
Nope, takes a minute for a jet engine to rollback. They probably heard the impact, reduced thrust slightly and monitored in the climb. Also notice their ground speed, single engine airspeed on my jet is not less than 240 knots, they would have dialed that in and traded the excess speed for altitude.
Yes, I’d guess the object to be a radiosonde. The telemetry would have stopped at 27,000 feet. If it was a radiosonde, the NWS would probably know all about it.
Likely not a weather balloon.
The radiosondes used by the NWS are really small and lightweight, with very little metallic mass. Also, balloons are launched at 7AM EST and 7PM EST. This collision occurred at 20:22Z, or 3:22 PM EST, hours away from a balloon launch. Plus, I believe the nearest launch site for a weather balloon is the National Hurricane Center which is over 70 miles away in Miami.
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What goes up must come down. Could be a radiosonde returning to earth. Plus winds can carry these things many miles from the launch site.
Lots like 126 knot tailwind at 9950”!
Yikes…Graves said, “The report is being classified as an 'incident and not an ‘accident,’ which would require a public announcement, investigation by NTSB, and an explanation.” …Talk about seeding conspiracy theories… It’s classified as an incident because that’s what 49 CFR Part 830 § 830.2 says it is.