Air Asia flight missing over Java Sea

[Admiral Halsey]

Damn. Surprised that 72 was the worst. I thought for sure 77 would be the worst since Tenerife happened that year.

[vanjast]

Be interesting to see the AirBus-vs-Boeing accident stats for the last few years..?

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by vanjast

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]

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

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

[CCIP]

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]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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]

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

I certainly do hope that some closure to all this is brought quickly, for the sake of the families.

[Jimbuna]

Probably more or less disintegrated on impact.

[Dowly]

Now one AirAsia plane overshot the runway in Kalibo.

No one hurt fortunately.

ETA: http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=27894269

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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.

Originally Posted by Dowly

Now one AirAsia plane overshot the runway in Kalibo.

No one hurt fortunately.

ETA: http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=27894269

All companies have bad days now and then. Just ask from Southwest Airlines.

[Oberon]

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.

Media...

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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

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

Originally Posted by Oberon

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.

Media...

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]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

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.