• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The runway-numbers drop the LAST, not the 1st, numeral,

    Runway numbers are assigned based on a clockwise 360° radial, dropping the first number.

    so, as the above informative-post stated, 10-degrees is runway 1, 180-degrees is runway 18, etc…

    ( I make mistakes like that too, so nobody blame them, ok? : )

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    PS: black-boxes are REQUIRED by the US’s FAA ( & the EU’s equivalent, ttbomk ) to have backup-power for themselves, & I can’t remember how many minutes of backup-power they’re required to have, but it’s something like 20-minutes? 40?

    For the black-box to have lost power 4-minutes before the crash…

    Something’s VERY screwy, there…

    Possible sabotage, even…

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