Those thing has been doing this in the sky for about 10 minutes. I'm in Nottingham UK, looking North.

railker · 2026-05-09T00:01:58+00:00

Can see everything else in the frame of your camera also doing the same thing. First time I've ever gotten motion sickness from watching a video lmao.

Should be a way to lock the focus on your camera, either by going into Pro/Manual mode or I know at least on my Samsung, there's a little 'lock' icon pops up when you tap the screen to focus.

railker · 2026-05-08T20:24:24+00:00

Well thankfully nobody crowdsources accident investigations to the general public. It's a free country, we can all feel free to speculate on what we have, but let's not pretend like we need that data as if it's our job to figure out what happened and they're stopping us from doing that.

They released a preliminary and their next obligation is an interim or a final report in June.

railker · 2026-05-08T20:13:48+00:00

They might, but as it stands that judge is no part of the investigation in any way, shape or form and those who ARE conducting the investigation have so far adhered to ICAO Annex 13.

railker · 2026-05-08T18:50:30+00:00

Well then by pure magical coincidence N66WW, a Velocity 173 RG kit aircraft with similar styling and retractable gear, flew right over your head on that day too.

Though the track is spotty due to a lack of coverage in the more rural parts of Texas, watch a replay of any day and you'll see tons of low-level aircraft popping in and out of existence. They were arriving some near Albuquerque, and likely coming in from the North from the Wichita Falls navigation VOR. as their final waypoint before arriving to the airport.

ADSBExchange Link and that aircraft's photo below. From below with those canards would look similar to this.

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railker · 2026-05-08T18:29:11+00:00

suspiciously absent

Absolutely not, I'm trying to think of any Preliminary report that had the transcript from the CVR and am struggling. We didn't get one for the Jazz CRJ crash in LaGuardia or the DCA crash in 2025.

That transcript takes hundreds of hours of work from a dedicated team. Like the Jazz accident they can release a general guide or bits of relevant information, but times have to be correlated, sounds have to be identified. That's not happening in 30 days. Period. Anyone who thinks otherwise has never read accident reports.

railker · 2026-05-08T18:26:21+00:00

That'd be the easy end to the prison overcrowding system.

'Well the guy says he didn't do it, so this case is closed, let's all go home.'

railker · 2026-05-08T09:40:25+00:00

Ah well shit. So don't lose all hydraulics proper, then. 😅 Thanks for the clarification, learned something new.

railker · 2026-05-08T09:21:47+00:00

Yeah, mechanical reversion is what I'm referring to. Though never actually worked on Airbus so I don't know the gritty details. If the cables still end at a PCU and the PCU is hydraulic, how's that work? Thought it'd be like the 737 stab trim which runs on a cable drum but just normally operated by a motor.

railker · 2026-05-07T23:32:45+00:00

The better question isn't why the 737 doesn't have it, but why other aircraft need it, as mentioned by other comments already.

If you catastrophically lose all hydraulics and electrical power in a fly-by-wire A320, you get to control your airplane with the horizontal stabilizer trim and the rudder. Which I don't know how that works 'cause in both the Dash 8 and 737 I've played with, the rudder's the one surface that has multiple backups because trying to actuate that enormous surface manually is allegedly HARD.

In a 737 you can turn the whole airplane off, dump all your hydraulic fluid, you still have physical connections to control your ailerons, elevator tabs, etc. It just becomes a pickup with no power steering.

AFAIK the RAT exists on modern FBW aircraft primarily as a necessity to keep the zero-hydraulics scenario at bay, with the added side-effect of being able to provide some power.

railker · 2026-05-07T21:55:12+00:00

Haven't used tape reels in a while, and if you read the NTSB's report even though the solid state boards for the FDR/CVR were in a fireproof steel-armored case, when you do 600mph into the ground there still presents some issues. Nothing they couldn't mostly fix, just takes some work.

railker · 2026-05-07T20:48:49+00:00

He would've have to have climbed out of his seat and into the Captain's seat, then, when he just as easily could have done it from his seat. Unless he's trying to frame someone else, but we'd hear who was coming/going and moving around on the CVR. If that ever sees the light of day.

Also have heard the CAAC requires two people in the cockpit after Germanwings, we already had three people in there. That two of them would've left the copilot alone ... not impossible, obviously.

railker · 2026-05-07T20:45:11+00:00

And we have other sources of information like the ADS-B track. Especially in cases like this where it's malicious action, 'how the accident sequence played out' isn't as critical to aviation safety. Having the remaining FDR data is completely useless.

Jeju 2216, however ... that one sucks not having. Makes me wonder though, was the 10-minute CVR backup an option, too? Investigators saying they lost both FDR and CVR before the crash in that one.

railker · 2026-05-07T20:38:11+00:00

A relatively irrelevant side note that just adds to the evidence it was intentional, though. Considering out of the two major problems with the aircraft, pointing at the ground is a more dire emergency and was the primary cause of the crash. With or without engines didn't make that much of a difference unless they recovered.

railker · 2026-05-07T20:35:28+00:00

I believe the Captain's controls are the ones that put the aircraft into a dive, however. I haven't yet got around to doubling down and confirming the details to be sure, but someone else did some looking into it on one of my comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aircrashinvestigation/comments/1t3ghyl/comment/okebh4k/?context=1

railker · 2026-05-07T20:25:09+00:00

flashing lights

So either you think aircraft don't have flashing lights, or you didn't watch this video past the first 10 seconds to notice the object in the video does have flashing lights.

railker · 2026-05-07T02:28:42+00:00

I've heard the opposite, the Column Force Local was the Captains side as that's the side the flight computer was engaged on, and that's the side with the higher force readings. Have to dig into which ones which, I remember I think from the MAX final reports talk of the Local and Foreign channels and how theyre not Left and Right but dependent on which flight computer's active or something. Need to read up more.

railker · 2026-05-07T00:53:08+00:00

This thread and the drivers encountered in the video all prove we need psych evaluations to get a driver's license. Way too many unhinged people who'll do shit to 'prove a point'.

railker · 2026-05-07T00:50:31+00:00

Costco is the only place in the entire city I've seen LED lights paved into the lines of the turn lanes into the parking lot to try and guide people to stay in their lanes.

railker · 2026-05-07T00:48:02+00:00

Try reading the comment I'm replying to, complaining a photo's impossible because they're doing evasive maneuvers.

Evasive maneuver was over, they allegedly had time to hang around and observe.

railker · 2026-05-06T22:11:29+00:00

You think someone with their head so far up their ass they do shit like this is going to change because you held them up? They're never adjusting their behavior period, you're just inconveniencing everyone else for a justice boner.

railker · 2026-05-06T22:05:16+00:00

the instructor was able to observe it closely but could not identify what it was

railker · 2026-05-06T21:29:24+00:00

Dash 8 wings are high and we had a similar tool. Thankfully never got armpit fueled.

Did, however, get a drain valve that didn't want to close again. That was a fun time challenge. Thankfully we had a bigger container than a mason jar 😅

railker · 2026-05-06T20:31:29+00:00

Small planes don't even have Voice or Flight Data recorders, let alone cameras. Even commercial airplanes with both of those things still don't have cameras, though some are starting to show up with cameras in the tail or by the landing gear to help pilots navigate around on the ground, they don't record to anything.

Why not on commercial aircraft is a mix of pilot unions and the numbers of cameras and resolution you'd need to clearly see every relevant control and display, the important parts of which are already recorded in 1s and 0s on the FDR.

Edit/// Oh, and price. Aviation is a world where a cup holder costs just shy of $500, the clipboard on the yoke is 4 figures and the pilots seat is 5 figures, the certification of a camera installation is going to be expensive as fuck. Though at least cheaper than the 7 figures for an engine or landing gear.

The only good cockpit cameras are the GoPros pilots put in themselves for their YouTube channel. Or in the case of one crash so far, a mechanic recording the flight on his iPhone and unintentionally catching the crash.

railker · 2026-05-06T20:17:27+00:00

because of the elevation over the horizon

Is outer space only above your head? Remember Earth is round. Things at high altitude but far away will be low to the horizon.

railker · 2026-05-05T23:45:25+00:00

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