imperceptible. it is not that significant. there may be some slight difference in terms of the yaw of the aircraft. one wings had a winglet, one wing doesn t. there may be a perceptible motion back and forth in your seat. but it should be fairly benign to the pilot. alan, we always appreciate the walk through of this. i don t care, if you re looking out the window and that thing falls off, it is incredibly alarming. alan armstrong, thank you so much. you re very welcome. we re getting a new look this morning of the inmate who has been charged with capital murder, now on the run with a corrections officer. the county sheriff is joining us next with the latest on the manhunt. and this morning the supreme court is bracing for potential violence ahead of the anticipated reversal of roe v. wade. i need a lawn.quick. the fast way to bring it up to speed. scotts turf builder rapid grass. it grows two times faster than seed d alone for full, grgreen grass. everything else just seems.
after pilots made an emergency landing. after losing part of the wing called the winglet, the winglet is a curved piece at the end of some aircraft wings that reduces draft. and joining us now to show us on an actual plane is alan armstrong, pilot and aviation attorney. alan, always great to have you walk us through stuff like this. show us where the winglet is, you know, where it should be and explain what it does. okay, brianna. this is a winglet structure. you can see it is basically perpendicular to the wing. it is held on with ten very large bolts. and six bolts here that gives it strength to withstand forces on the winglet. the winglet has four benefits. the first benefit is it increases the span of the wing and the aspect ratio, makes the wing more efficient. the second benefit is it delays
so, when they do collide at that high velocity, there is total, typically total destruction of the aircraft. by the time radio contact is made at 4:53 p.m., the connection is so bad, the legacy pilot and controller can t understand each other. the planes are closing in. everybody was sort of dosing or working by hear and feel. bang! the loudest noise i ever heard. i was in vietnam and i ve heard bombs, but just, bang! and every atom in my body i felt kind of implode. i ve flown as a passenger a lot, and you go through all kinds of weather and all kinds of turbulence, and i ve never felt an impact like this before. because of the angle at which the planes collide, the 737, though much larger, takes a far worse hit than the legacy. one of the wings, which has a winglet on it, actually sliced
great in the evening may lend some help to the guys that can dive still, because at 100 feet, 110 feet, there s not much light down there anyway. 110 feet, even with the sun directly overhead, not that much sunshine, especially through that slightly murky water, as well. here s the forecast here for the recovery. it is the box right here, this little area. that s where most of the debris has been found. the plane slightly to the left of that box, because the waves and the wind has been going in that direction the entire time. you talked about that. there s very little current in this area here either. once something sinks to the bottom, we re not moving it around in the current. only the stuff on top. especially the things that are sticking out of the water. let s say a part of a wing or winglet sticking out of the water, that wind will grab that and act like a sail and can blow it downstream, downwind. that s the way the wind has been going the entire time, right into this box, and ev
one of the wings, which has a winglet on it, actually sliced through the 737 wing. there was a lot of flight control systems that are damaged. it rendered the airplane incapacitated and uncontrollable, and as the 737 went out of control, of course, the aerodynamic forces actually caused it to start to break up in flight. everyone on board the legacy knows something bad has happened, but they don t know they ve collided with another aircraft. they don t even know their plane is damaged, until joe sharkie looks out his window. i open my window shutter and look out, this is a sight i ll simply never forget. because i m looking at the wing and part of it is missing. and it s a jagged bit of metal. they need on the ground and they need on the ground in a hurry. they need the first available airport. coming up, 35 heart-stopping