Posted on 07/24/2014 4:37:03 AM PDT by BlackVeil
Air Algerie plane with 110 passengers and six crew loses contact with air traffic control and disappears from radar after taking off from Burkina Faso on flight to Algeria ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Good questions XZINS. The reckless evil of backing the “militants” in Libya has already cost many lives, and it may also be taking down airplanes.
Would our govts tell us the truth about this?
OK. Agreed. TSA sucks.
An official with the Mali prime minister’s office has told the AFP news agency that contact with the plane was lost over the north of the country. The region was seized by jihadist groups for several months in 2012 and has remained unstable, despite a French-led offensive to restore stability.
The following nationalities were on board the plane, according to the Associated Press news agency:
- France: 51
- Burkina Faso: 27
- Lebanon: 8
- Algeria: 6
- Canada: 5
- Germany: 4
- Luxembourg: 2
- Switzerland: 1
- Belgium: 1
- Egypt: 1
- Ukraine: 1
- Nigeria: 1
- Cameroon: 1
- Mali: 1
After one doesn't fly for awhile, it becomes less desirable. It isn't just the fear of terrorism, it's that planes are germ factories, I don't much like being a sardine in a can, and the hassle.
Haven't been on a plane for 15 years. Never saw Europe, so a few years ago did so by boat. I like the ocean cruising, a lot, but it isn't for everyone.
FOX Radio News said the pilot asked to change course because of a severe storm in the area.
They would never tell the truth about this. My read on it is that they’d rather have an ambassador murdered, run a propaganda campaign against the US people about a video, and lie to Congress than ever tell the truth about this. Looking at Lois Lerner, I’d also bet that they’ve purged all records by now, and that history will never know the truth. The only avenue to the truth that I can think of would be some smoking gun possessed by the terrorists themselves.
To put it into proper perspective, we would need to know how many of those traffic fatalities were caused by the victims’ own stupid choices and subtract that number.
When you’re driving, you have a certain amount of choice which you don’t have as a passenger on a plane. You can’t always avoid every accident, but if you’re the kind of person who cares about such things you stand a better chance than the person who throws their hands in the air and declares that bad things can never be avoided.
The greatest risk factor in an automobile is the driver. By being a good driver, you can reduce your risk. As a passenger in an airplane, the only choice you have is whether or not to get on the plane in the first place. Once you do, your risk is as high as everyone else on the plane. Even a passenger in an automobile has more choices than that, and can actively reduce risks, or voluntarily exit the vehicle if risk factors gradually increase.
Some accidents can’t be avoided, but if you’re going to compare the risk of flying with risk of driving carefully, you need to discount those risk factors that can be avoided.
TWA wasn’t shot down. It crashed. Stop the conspiracy theories please.
I'm sure some of our border 'refugees 'are bringing over the parts to assemble missile launchers as we speak. Knock a few airliners out of the sky over the United States and the crippling effect will make 9/11 look like a pipe bomb.
So has America, not to mention China
The best thing you can do to reduce your risk in a car is to be off the road between Midnight and 4:00 AM.
Oh, and don’t drink and drive...
There is no question but that traveling by commercial airline is by far the safest mode of transportation. Driving from Los Angeles to New York is at least a thousand times more dangerous than flying. Probably a lot more than that. Honestly, other than dying by pulmonary embolism caused by the cramped seats in coach, how many people have died in commercial airline crashes flying between Los Angeles and New York in the last 25 years? I believe that number would be zero.
GA is the only way to fly.
It still amazes me that with the number of flight-hours per 24-hour period in the entire world that there aren’t many more crashes per day.
It at least speaks to the reliability of the equipment, the ground and maintenance crews and pilots.
Nearly all the crashes of commercial airlines are puddle jumpers flown by relatively inexperienced pilots flying relatively unreliable aircraft in relatively unreliable weather conditions. And the more remote you get from US airlines the more dangerous your flight would be.
I would not, for instance, fly on Aero Mexico or Peruvian Airlines or any Middle Eastern airline other than El Al. And for obvious reasons there is no way on earth I would get on a Malaysian Airlines flight to anywhere. I think they are done.
Still, even those airlines are safer, per passenger mile, than any other mode of transportation.
In my younger (and more foolish) days I flew Air Tanzania,Egypt Air,Air Malawi and several other airlines whose names I've blocked out.But today I agree with you up to a point...that is,I've flown Emirates several times and have had a great experience each time.But Aero Mexico or Aero Peru? No way,Jose!
Last for me was 2004 to visit my son at the USNA. I make it clear at any job I apply for I don’t fly. I also carry 24/7 so no public transportation for me.
Flying is still statistically safer. By a wide margin.
There are enough stories even from my county in this year of people dying while driving like they should and getting bowled over by a speeding semi-truck with inadequate brakes, by a drunk dirving the wrong way on an interstae, etc. to convince me driving is never truly “safe”, no matter how defensively and safely you personally drive.
...and don’t drive in Third Word countries...
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