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CCIP
12-27-14, 11:18 PM
http://i.imgur.com/ZUl2MHx.jpg
(actual aircraft missing)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30614627

Not again, I hope :nope:
ETR3(SS)
12-28-14, 12:24 AM
Spectre did it.
d@rk51d3
12-28-14, 01:05 AM
Looks to be more storm related.....

Bad news either way, and another blight on Malay based operations.

UPDATED:

http://avherald.com/h?article=47f6abc7&opt=0
kranz
12-28-14, 05:29 AM
Spectre did it.
Ukrainians did it.
Jimbuna
12-28-14, 06:22 AM
Not again, I hope :nope:

Rgr that.
Oberon
12-28-14, 07:59 AM
It doesn't look good.

Definitely not been a good year for Asian airlines. Hopefully this one will be found and there will be survivors.

Reports of bad weather in the area, the A320 has had its share of problems, but most of them have been either pilot error (due to unfamiliarity with the computer systems on board) or landing issues due to poor adhesion. This'll be the first time one has gone down mid-flight.

Spectre did it.

Ukrainians did it.


Let's have a bit less of the silly comments please, there's 162 people on this flight, of multiple nationalities. :nope:
kranz
12-28-14, 10:31 AM
Let's have a bit less of the silly comments please, there's 162 people on this flight, of multiple nationalities. :nope:
you didn't refrain yourself from silly comments in the thread in which hundreds if not thousands were involved.
besides, I'll quote (for the last time) Sailor Steve here: don't tell others what they can or cannot do.
Rockstar
12-28-14, 10:55 AM
act your age not your shoe size.
Oberon
12-28-14, 11:03 AM
you didn't refrain yourself from silly comments in the thread in which hundreds if not thousands were involved.
besides, I'll quote (for the last time) Sailor Steve here: don't tell others what they can or cannot do.

I wasn't telling, I was asking. There is a difference. If you want to drag a petty squabble from one thread to another, that's your choice.
Jimbuna
12-28-14, 11:16 AM
Come on everybody, two or more wrongs don't make a right, lets maintain some level of quality understanding here.
Admiral Halsey
12-28-14, 11:18 AM
Bloody hell not again. Has any year ever been this bad for airline operations before?
CCIP
12-28-14, 11:41 AM
Bloody hell not again. Has any year ever been this bad for airline operations before?

Oh, it's been much worse:

http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/1164919-2014-the-worst-year-for-air-crashes-in-a-while/

1972 is usually considered the deadliest year.

While 2014 is unusually bad, the 1970s and 1980s were substantially more dangerous for air travel, especially when you take into account that there are far more airplanes in the air today than back then.
Admiral Halsey
12-28-14, 01:09 PM
Damn. Surprised that 72 was the worst. I thought for sure 77 would be the worst since Tenerife happened that year.
vanjast
12-28-14, 02:54 PM
Be interesting to see the AirBus-vs-Boeing accident stats for the last few years..?
CCIP
12-28-14, 03:27 PM
Be interesting to see the AirBus-vs-Boeing accident stats for the last few years..?

There's not really a difference, and I'll never understand the "scarebus" myth, because statistics either don't bear this out (or even favour Airbus slightly).

Some stats by type:
http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
http://www.airfleets.net/crash/stat_plane.htm
Jimbuna
12-29-14, 06:40 AM
Damn. Surprised that 72 was the worst. I thought for sure 77 would be the worst since Tenerife happened that year.

That was my initial assessment as well :yep:
CCIP
12-30-14, 02:54 AM
Well, it seems they've found it

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30630330

Unfortunately, it seems like it's in pieces in the ocean and nobody has survived :(
Oberon
12-30-14, 03:10 AM
Well, it seems they've found it

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30630330

Unfortunately, it seems like it's in pieces in the ocean and nobody has survived :(

Damn...it was pretty unlikely anyone would have survived, but there's always a small sliver of hope. Still, if this wreckage is the AsiaAir flight, then at least they have found it and hopefully the black box will be found and some closure brought to this, unlike the Malaysian flight.
CCIP
12-30-14, 03:40 AM
Well, it seems like there are multiple bodies that have been found now, and none have had life jackets or oxygen masks on them, so that's certainly not a good sign :nope:

I certainly do hope that some closure to all this is brought quickly, for the sake of the families.
Jimbuna
12-30-14, 08:56 AM
Probably more or less disintegrated on impact.
Dowly
12-30-14, 10:03 AM
Now one AirAsia plane overshot the runway in Kalibo. :doh:

No one hurt fortunately.

ETA: http://abcnews.go.com/International/airasia-zest-plane-overshoots-airport-runway-philippines/story?id=27894269
kraznyi_oktjabr
12-30-14, 10:12 AM
Probably more or less disintegrated on impact.Most likely. Hopefully not as badly as Swissair Flight 111. It will be interesting to know if aircraft was in one piece when it hit water.

Now one AirAsia plane overshot the runway in Kalibo. :doh:

No one hurt fortunately.

ETA: http://abcnews.go.com/International/airasia-zest-plane-overshoots-airport-runway-philippines/story?id=27894269All companies have bad days now and then. Just ask from Southwest Airlines.
Oberon
12-30-14, 02:20 PM
Virgin had a bit of a hiccup yesterday, one of its 747s had a partial gear failure, the news treated it like it was coming in on fire though apparently. :/\\!! :nope:

Media... :nope:
Herr-Berbunch
12-30-14, 03:09 PM
Well, it seems like there are multiple bodies that have been found now, and none have had life jackets or oxygen masks on them, so that's certainly not a good sign :nope:

I don't know, time to panic v sudden end (hopefully, I think)

Virgin had a bit of a hiccup yesterday, one of its 747s had a partial gear failure, the news treated it like it was coming in on fire though apparently. :/\\!! :nope:

Media... :nope:

I thought that was a brilliant landing, not a scrape on the starboard engines. But my 777 pilot mate says the pilot will get a ribbing from all pilots who ever meet him for such a bounce.

RIP to all passengers and crew on the Air Asia flight.
Oberon
12-30-14, 03:24 PM
I thought that was a brilliant landing, not a scrape on the starboard engines. But my 777 pilot mate says the pilot will get a ribbing from all pilots who ever meet him for such a bounce.

RIP to all passengers and crew on the Air Asia flight.

I noticed the bounce too, but all things considered it went a lot better than it could have, heck one of the passengers said that it was smoother than a lot of regular landings he's been on. :haha: