Talk:El Al Flight 1862/Archive 1

So why this happened?

This is from the book Man-Made Catastrophes written by Lee Davis. Copywright 2002. An El Boeing 747 cargo jet with a crew of three, one passanger and 114 tons of cargo, bound from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to Tel Avis, crashed shortly after takeoff on October 4, 1992, into an apartment complex in Bijimermeer, just outside Amsterdam. In the worst toll of victms on the ground from an air crash, 100 died, including the threee crew members and the passangers.

Flight Data Recorder

After the disaster, there were rumours that the Israeli secret service had tried to recover some of the cargo, or the flight recording boxes. The plane, like all Boeing 747s at that time, also contained about 400 kg of depleted uranium as trim weight in the tail, a fact unknown during the recovery effort. The flight recording boxes were never found.

According to Seconds From Disaster that was on last night, the flight data recorder was found (and sent to US data recovery specialists). The contents of the flight data recorder was used to determine the eventual cause of the crash as being because the leading edge of the wing was ripped off along with the No. 4 engine, the air flow was disrupted on the starboard side, which could not be compensated for below 280kts.

Which one is right?

--193.120.178.201 13:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)