Unflug From Germany, joined Jan 2012, 187 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2913 times:
Quoting Tobias2702 (Thread starter): Strangely, the terms "Lufthansa", and "D-ALCQ" (also in images) are blacked out in the published version. I don't get it, what's the reason behind it?
The German law regarding accident reports does in fact state that reports have to keep information on involved persons anonymous - see § 18 par (2):
garpd From UK - Scotland, joined Aug 2005, 2292 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2674 times:
Can the registrations of German aircraft be re-issued?
If so, maybe that's why it is redacted, so that when re-issued to another plane, some moron won't panic everyone by saying "Oh, this plane crashed and burned previously!"
na From Germany, joined Dec 1999, 9599 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 2371 times:
Quoting PanHAM (Reply 5): Yes, the regs can be re-issued. LH owns a long list and regs like D-ABYE have been on a good number of 4holers.
LH is superstitious No row 13, no row 17, no re-issue of the registration of a crashed plane. Look at the new 748Is coming, where D-ABYB is being left out because a plane with that reg crashed almost 40 years ago.
tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 81 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2034 times:
Quoting Starglider (Reply 6): The first 2 values, correct me if i'm wrong, should be swapped as a higher descent rate results in a higher load factor.
-13 ft/sec = 3.0g
-11 ft/sec = 2.1g
Or am i missing something?
The descent rate is how fast the aircraft CG is moving vertically, the normal load factor is how fast the CG is accelerating...although there is some correlation between them, you can't directly convert one to the other. For one thing, they're different units...one is a velocity, one is an acceleration. But, more importantly, the normal load factor is all about how hard the airplane is pitching up at the moment of touchdown, which is independant of sink rate.
Tobias2702 From Germany, joined Sep 2008, 643 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1912 times:
Quoting na (Reply 7): LH is superstitious No row 13, no row 17, no re-issue of the registration of a crashed plane.
Though, today there is again an aircraft called "Landshut" (a 733 if I'm not mistaken). The hijacking of the Landshut in 1977 (a 737-200) might be the most famous event involving an LH aircraft.
PA, AF, UK, BA, AB, DL, LH, FR, BD, A3, EZY, DY //// A319/320/346, B733/735/73G/738/744/763, AT4, 146, CR2, DH4
Starglider From Netherlands, joined Sep 2006, 644 posts, RR: 45 Reply 11, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1475 times:
Quoting tdscanuck (Reply 9): The descent rate is how fast the aircraft CG is moving vertically, the normal load factor is how fast the CG is accelerating...although there is some correlation between them, you can't directly convert one to the other. For one thing, they're different units...one is a velocity, one is an acceleration. But, more importantly, the normal load factor is all about how hard the airplane is pitching up at the moment of touchdown, which is independant of sink rate.
Tom,
Thanks for your explanation and adding the missing pieces. Goes to show one is never too old to learn.
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No row 13, no row 17, no re-issue of the registration of a crashed plane. Look at the new 748Is coming, where D-ABYB is being left out because a plane with that reg crashed almost 40 years ago.
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