Study: 9 out of 10 plane landings just barely make it

[Weiss Pinguin]

90% of plane landings are just barely pulled off (http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-90-of-plane-landings-just-barely-pulled-off,19012/)
WASHINGTON—According to a new study
published by the National Transportation Safety
Board, 90 percent of successful plane landings are
"this close" to ending with the aircraft pinwheeling
down the runway and exploding into a fireball of
twisted metal and charred flesh.

I wonder what our resident pilots have to say about this? :nope:

[CCIP]

I was all :stare:

And then I saw the source :88)

While I'm not a pilot, I play one on my ridiculously modded-out Flight Simulator. If there's one thing I learned from it, actually, it's just how amazingly safe air travel is these days. There's really a lot of checks and balances in the whole system to make sure that, apart from some exceptionally severe failures, it's almost impossible for one single thing going wrong to bring down an aircraft. Almost always, it's a whole snowballing combination of unfortunate factors that does so, and there are effective ways of dealing with those before they snowball.

[gimpy117]

the onion is trolling again

[Jimbuna]

I was all :stare:

And then I saw the source :88)

While I'm not a pilot, I play one on my ridiculously modded-out Flight Simulator. If there's one thing I learned from it, actually, it's just how amazingly safe air travel is these days. There's really a lot of checks and balances in the whole system to make sure that, apart from some exceptionally severe failures, it's almost impossible for one single thing going wrong to bring down an aircraft. Almost always, it's a whole snowballing combination of unfortunate factors that does so, and there are effective ways of dealing with those before they snowball.

Agreed....far more dangerous driving a car or crossing a road.

Mind you...more people survive car crashes and accidents involving pedestrians than those that survive a plane crash :hmmm::DL

[Tchocky]

Almost always, it's a whole snowballing combination of unfortunate factors that does so, and there are effective ways of dealing with those before they snowball.
Very very true.

A strange coincidence seeing this thread, this morning's class was a couple of hours spent dissecting the Zagreb and Uberlingen mid-air collisions. We ended up identifying no less than 14 separate failures and mistakes in the case of Uberlingen, many completely separate from each other.

[Growler]

Most car crashes don't involve lots of passengers and several tons of airplane colliding with other, more resilient things like the ground, at relatively high rates of speed. I mean, try dropping your car on its roof at 120 mph and sliding it into a building with forty people on it. I guarantee, that's not gonna end well.:O:

[Sailor Steve]

I think the biggest problem here is undertrained pilots. According to my studies, a full 30% of them don't know where the ground is, or even what it looks like. This can cause severe problems when trying to land. :yep:

[Growler]

Flying is nothing more than throwing yourself at the ground and missing.

[MaddogK]

Flying is nothing more than throwing yourself at the ground and missing.

:rotfl2:

As long as you're distracted just before you hit the ground.

[GoldenRivet]

according to my studies... the cause of 100% of plane crashes is the ground.

[ETR3(SS)]

Hmm, and here I thought this thread was about the Lolwaffles.:hmmm:

[Growler]

according to my studies... the cause of 100% of plane crashes is the ground.

Wrong. 100% of airplane crashes is pilot error. The guy flying the Earth needs his license yanked, before anyone else is hurt.

[Jimbuna]

Flying is nothing more than throwing yourself at the ground and missing.

according to my studies... the cause of 100% of plane crashes is the ground.

LOL :DL

[krashkart]

Hmm, and here I thought this thread was about the Lolwaffles.:hmmm:

They must have some fans at The Onion. :)

[Schroeder]

Hmm, and here I thought this thread was about the Lolwaffles.:hmmm:
Are you nuts?:nope:
Only 89% of our landings cause scrap metal.
Don't compare us with these professional amateurs.

:hmmm::O::D

[TarJak]

according to my studies... the cause of 100% of plane crashes is the ground.
I hesitated momentarily to mention the two famous exceptions that occurred on Sept 11 2001.:O:

[Jimbuna]

Are you nuts?:nope:
Only 89% of our landings cause scrap metal.
Don't compare us with these professional amateurs.

:hmmm::O::D

I presume your referring to Hunter and Oberon :DL

[Gargamel]

:rotfl2:

As long as you're distracted just before you hit the ground.

They have places that will do that for you.

[em2nought]

There are also 100,000 hookers headed to the Superbowl, and they're all underage. :03:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Hmm, and here I thought this thread was about the Lolwaffles.:hmmm:
Yeah, when I first saw the article I thought they were talking about my Il2 and MS flight sim record :haha:

[McBeck]

according to my studies... the cause of 100% of plane crashes is the ground.What about water? :O:

[Gargamel]

What about water? :O:

Water is just squishy ground.

Mud is just semi squishy ground.

Tall buildings are just reconfigured ground.

Trees are just living ground.

Electrical wires are just zappy ground, hung from reconfigured ground.

[AngusJS]

As long as you're distracted just before you hit the ground.:yeah:

[sharkbit]

:yeah:

42 :03:

:)