Posted on 12/30/2014 12:29:43 AM PST by tcrlaf
The French air show accident (low speed pass and deforestation), was a very long time ago. It was 100% pilot error. The pilot flew below Alpha Floor limit.
Apparently not in the case of these European bullt death traps. How many people have died in these crates in the last two years? 300? 400?
And it’s always the aircraft, some weird “flaw” that makes it impossible for the flight crew to actually...what’s the word...oh yea, FLY the aircraft when something goes wrong.
Not your fault you’re flying a machine you can’t control when all those fancy gadgets take a dump at 35,000 feet. But everyone is just as dead when it happens. Right?
If you must fly in Asia fly Cathay Pacific. Their overall safety record from their founding in 1946 is pretty good.
I flew them from Hong Kong to Vancouver once. Set down in steerage and the attendant came up to me before takeoff and motioned to come. I stood up confused. She pointed at the overhead and I grabbed my bag. I figured I was going to jail for some reason. She led me up to business and pointed at an empty seat. All 6’5” of me laid back in supreme comfort and I have sung their praises ever since. Cathay Pacific. Cathay Pacific.
Music to my ears, honestly... Hand-crafted assembly simply cannot be beaten, and for an application like this, it’s completely justified...
You bet. Best carrier in Asia.
I will forgive your obvious ignorance. If you wanted to educate yourself you would investigate the tens of thousands of passengers who have died in Boeing aircraft. Only a Luddite thinks the 1960s and 1970s were the golden age of aviation safety.
well, at some point Ada will die due to lack of programmers.
so a RT DO178B JM could be flying you or guiding your drone or whatever.
They will find few corpses, the sharks thare are pretty efficient.
“Airbus is NOT a safe plane and they ought to be sued out of existence.”
Hence the well earned nickname “Scarebus”
LOL
Just got off an A319 (now that AA has merged with US Scareways).
The plane flies like a rock, loud as hell, the AC system fogs up the cabin with condensation, and there is no such thing as a smooth landing, probably because the pilot isn’t actually physically connected to the flight control surfaces.
This “merger” is bogus as well, you can book a flight on AA.com but if you are a Platinum or Gold and think you can fly standby on an earlier or later flight if your reservation is on an AA flight and the next flight is technically still a US Scare, you would be mistaken.
They act like they never merged and will charge you about $200 bucks.
I will actively AVOID booking any flight on an Airbus plane from now on, the whole fleet needs to be scuttled.
Suck it AA.
Hydraulic rams, cables, long levers, jack screws?
This latest mass casualty fatal crash brought to you once again courtesy of Obamas golf partner Larry Ellison and Oracle.
I fly semi-annually twixt LAX-CLT on US Airways A-321s.
Nice flyers, good landers, no problems and, on one flight, one of the prettiest flight attendants I’d ever seen.
Same can be said for Boeing
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