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Author Topic: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK  (Read 52633 times)

Offline flyflyfly

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Re: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2011, 02:48:07 AM »
LiveATC edit acknowledged in AP video here: .

So, which journalist did the transcription of the LiveATC recording?
"Super 8380 I understand he belives he hit the regional jet"
Associated Press #fail!
Ahahaha...  :-D

Offline aevins

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Re: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2011, 07:57:34 AM »
NTSB has confirmed that this was Comair flight 293, an inbound.

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Re: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2011, 08:40:47 PM »
Amazing that AF had to shut down the engines. With CFR equipment and personel - along with the deplane Comair pax - milling around the taxiway, they should have shut down on their own!

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Re: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2011, 08:51:35 PM »
Amazing that AF had to shut down the engines. With CFR equipment and personel - along with the deplane Comair pax - milling around the taxiway, they should have shut down on their own!

Yeah, they seemed surprised.  It wasn't like they were going to Paris that night.

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Re: AFR 7 Super vs. Comair 553 at KJFK
« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2011, 02:57:36 PM »
Looks to me like the video was sped up, making it difficult to estimate the speed of the plane.

There are red flashing lights on both planes (sorry, don't know the technical terms).  Do they flash at a known frequency, and if so, can someone calculate the actual speeds and post a slowed-down video?

Strobe lights are white flashing - Rotation beacon is mounted at the fuselage not the wing and the NAV(igation) light left is red and right is green.

And even if the video is sped up, the Air France is going like a freight train !

Furthermore most accidents happen while landing or definitely on the ground, once more proof of that  :evil: