Not another plane !
16 August 2005, 12:43 PM
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Not another plane !
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...,00.html?f=dta
A plane carrying 152 passengers has crashed in western Venezuela.
A plane carrying 152 passengers has crashed in western Venezuela.
16 August 2005, 01:01 PM
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West Caribbean Airways aircraft flying between Panama and Martinica. Crew reported engine trouble.
A quick search suggests that the aircraft is likely to be either a MD-81 or MD-82. Not a good week for air travel
A quick search suggests that the aircraft is likely to be either a MD-81 or MD-82. Not a good week for air travel
16 August 2005, 01:36 PM
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Great. Another opportunity for the online experts to wildly speculate as to the cause of the accident without little or no knowledge about aviation.
16 August 2005, 01:45 PM
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According to BBC, ATC lost communication after the pilots reported engine problems.
Speculate on that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4156224.stm
Speculate on that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4156224.stm
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16 August 2005, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatcapdriver
Great. Another opportunity for the online experts to wildly speculate as to the cause of the accident without little or no knowledge about aviation.
16 August 2005, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Iwan
How about those of us who do actually have some knowlege about aviation, is it ok if we speculate?
16 August 2005, 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Iwan
How about those of us who do actually have some knowlege about aviation, is it ok if we speculate?
16 August 2005, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatcapdriver
Are you a pilot? Work for ATC? Or perhaps a PPL passing himself off as an expert?
16 August 2005, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatcapdriver
Great. Another opportunity for the online experts to wildly speculate as to the cause of the accident without little or no knowledge about aviation.
Last edited by G-STAR; 16 August 2005 at 02:18 PM.
16 August 2005, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Iwan
I said 'some' knowledge, I wouldn't class myself as an expert by any stretch of the imagination. I know a bit about anoxia though, which is why I mentioned it in the other thread.
16 August 2005, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatcapdriver
Well, I have a fair bit more knowledge than most on here and I have to say I'm so far from being qualified to speculate that it makes me laugh when I see the self appointed experts going to town on something they know nothing about. It's bad enough when Sky trots out it's panel of experts who are completely clueless and make such basic assumptive errors that you wonder if they've ever flown at all.
16 August 2005, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Leslie
Terribly sorry if I upset you with my limited knowledge of aviation Flat Cap Driver.
Les
Les
16 August 2005, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by john sugar
So your not employed as the oracle of aviation ??
16 August 2005, 02:55 PM
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That's two crashes on almost opposite sides of the world. Accidents happen I'm afraid, but the chances of your plane crashing are still incredibly small.
If you chose to sit inside a 500mph aluminium tube @ 33,000 ft there's bound to be some risk involved.
How many car crashes do you reckon has happened throughout the world in the past 48hrs? I'd be more worried about driving home from work tonight if I were you.
If you chose to sit inside a 500mph aluminium tube @ 33,000 ft there's bound to be some risk involved.
How many car crashes do you reckon has happened throughout the world in the past 48hrs? I'd be more worried about driving home from work tonight if I were you.
16 August 2005, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ozzy
That's two crashes on almost opposite sides of the world. Accidents happen I'm afraid, but the chances of your plane crashing are still incredibly small.
If you chose to sit inside a 500mph aluminium tube @ 33,000 ft there's bound to be some risk involved.
How many car crashes do you reckon has happened throughout the world in the past 48hrs? I'd be more worried about driving home from work tonight if I were you.
If you chose to sit inside a 500mph aluminium tube @ 33,000 ft there's bound to be some risk involved.
How many car crashes do you reckon has happened throughout the world in the past 48hrs? I'd be more worried about driving home from work tonight if I were you.
And then i saw this about 10 mins ago
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...,00.html?f=dta
16 August 2005, 03:45 PM
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..except safety procedures on a plane, perhaps 
Flying to Ibiza on Friday, if I make it I think I'll celebrate a bit
Flying to Ibiza on Friday, if I make it I think I'll celebrate a bit
16 August 2005, 03:57 PM
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Nope, and I don't pretend to be. PPL + IMC+ ME (550TT) and halfway through a fATPL means that I know enough not to speculate on something in which I have insufficient knowledge.
16 August 2005, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by KiwiGTI
But you have to admit that initially it sounds like a sequential catastrophic failure of the port and starboard gyroscopic squib bearings, in that order, leading to the subsequent failure of the thrust tubes.
Bet the families of the poor people who died a laughing their asses of at that one!
IMHO - SN alway has been a place for speculation by those in the know and people who do not, nothing much wrong with that just the same comments and converstions going on as in offices pubs and clubs alll over the place just not face to face.
I chose not to express an opinion on why on this or the Helios plane which came down as i did not have enough info or knowlegde to do so. Don't read it if you do not like it are my thoughts and a slong as it does not libel or cause offence then so be it.