Another Airbus goes down !

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Correct, but poor maintenance is by far the hottest candidate so far, for the two reasons mentioned.

Agreed. But I can think of several accidents where the early "hottest candidate" ended up having nothing to do with the accident. In fact, more often than not the initial speculation surrounding an accident is totally wrong.

[mako88sb]

According to PPRuNE pilots report this airport as quite challenging especially during a night landing and with bad weather mixed in with it. Here's a link to their discussion.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/3...iner-down.html

Just speculation on their part of course, but they seem to think the planes maintenance did not contribute to this accident.


Rob

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Max2147

Agreed. But I can think of several accidents where the early "hottest candidate" ended up having nothing to do with the accident. In fact, more often than not the initial speculation surrounding an accident is totally wrong.

Your instincts are keen...

Case in point

French say sensors not cause of Flight 447 crash

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/French....html?x=0&.v=1

Pretty good read on CNN about a German woman who survived an airplane crash.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/eu...vor/index.html

[Letum]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Pretty good read on CNN about a German woman who survived an airplane crash.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/eu...vor/index.html

I remember seeing an excellent (BBC?) dramatization of that.
Will go google...

ed: and it wasn't wings of hope.

Bugger who let the Lolwaffles fly?!?