Posted on 06/29/2009 5:58:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
Yemeni airliner crashes in Indian Ocean 150 people reportedly on board; fate unknown
BREAKING NEWS o MORONI, Comoros - An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people on board, a senior government official said Tuesday.
"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," a senior government official told Reuters.
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I had a look at some satellite imagery and other weather data for the area, assuming the crash was shortly after take-off from the context, weather did not look to be the most obvious factor, the ITCZ is well north of this area at present and not very strong in any case, local weather looked showery but nothing very intense indicated. Crashes shortly after take-off are often terrorism-related.
Possibly one more avoided.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/air_india_plane_makes_emergency_landing_in_delhi.php
I never understand the big deal about airplane crashes. In the time it took to report this incident, many times the number of people have died world wide in car accidents.
Besides, this is clearly the work of the Dharma Initiative
another Paris connection?
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The plane was carrying 142 passengers and 11 crew members, the government official said. There was no immediate word on the nationalities of the passengers but the Associated Press reported that most of them were believed to be Comoros residents returning from Paris.
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The statistics can be assuring, but what is really going on in most people’s minds is that for a given, fixed “size” of a problem, the flying craft has less chance of survival than a land-based one.
That’s what I thought myself.....
It's just that you can use up a lot more miles in one hour than you can on the road. Not to mention that when the plane crashes, the consequences are a lot more dire.
Wow, prayers up for all those onboard.
I believe the Comoros were where an Ethiopian Airlines 767 crashed just off the beach after a hijacking some years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKdVo_IcGs
}:-)4
My goodness, quite a string of airliner accidents this year. I cannot remember a year like this. Very sad, every time. Thoughts are with the bereaved on the other side of the globe.
Third-world aircraft maintenance is... well, third world.
And not just any Third World, though, its Yemen.
Like Mos Eisley, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Great post. THX!
Don’t you know?
google:
“airlines outsourcing maintenance?”
as of Tues, 12:09 am CST:
RESCUE WORKERS FIND PASSENGER PLANE WHICH CRASHED OFF COMOROS (no other details)
http://twitter.com/breakingnews
Agree completely.
Driving from Virginia to Missouri is so much more fun, except for the part through West Virginia. Plus, the folks in Indiana are super friendly :-)
There is some funky stuff out there for sure.
One time I did a number of internal flights inside Peru, and kept getting the same plane (they had the name "St. Lucia" on this one). They would crank up the engines and they would billow black smoke for 10 minutes, then board the passangers. The flight attendants conducted bingo games on all those flights... to keep your mind off all the rattling going on with good ole Lucy the plane.
Thanks.
Watch out in WV, they use their regular cars to scout out of state plates and then have the troopers pull them over and pretend they were speeding. Since you are far enough out of state you will send the money and not go to court.
Another Airbus 300 series “plastic tail” incident?????
There have been 4 or 5 to this point [counting Air France].
Here is one for you: On a recent trip leaving from Toronto, two airline maintenance men came off the tarmac from a van they were driving, got into the passenger tunnel, came up into the terminal, and chatted with a friend they knew, (and knew where in the airport he was at). There was no plane at that terminal. Then after a time, they went back down to their van and left. How is that for security?
“I’ve flown to Europe a few times, and whenever that thought crosses my mind, I just think about how many times I risk my life every day by getting into an automobile.”
Yes, I agree - we could all be killed in cars or drop dead sitting on the sofa at home. However, when I am in a plane, it makes me VERY uneasy to know that I can’t pull over to the side of the road, or get out of that thing alive if something goes wrong. Then, when I hear things about poor maintenance, advice given to airlines to replace things that they don’t, and just the idea that they let computers control so much on a plane, I get angry and scared. Computers are great - when they work. Very frightening scenarios happening recently with Airbus...
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