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Airliner crash lands at Heathrow
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edit: so, clearly I was very wrong in my assumption. bravo Mr Pilot fellow!
Right when I am going to fly to LHR in 2 weeks.. and I'm so fearful of flying anyway
Flying is still one of the safest forms of travel, and things like this are a one-in-a-million, freak occurrence.
Anytime someone says they're scared of flying, I just tell them they are much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the airport. Whether or not that helps, I dunno, but it's true
Statistically.. it's the safest.. but personally, I would rather die in a car crash than a plane. It's just.. I'm not in control in a plane.. don't know what's going around. The worst bit is.. if something goes wrong, you have 35,000 feet left to know that you're going to die.
Car crash is usually.. *BAM* .. and you're hurt.. or dead.
Edit - I wish they still had ocean liners in service, lol
Well BBC News 24 is reporting the aircraft lost all power apparently the pilot managed to "glide" the plane as far as it could go so maybe not pilot error after all?
But what would cause a catastrophic loss of power like that?
Two engines at the same moment? Electrical fault, fuel shortage?
Two engines at the same moment? Electrical fault, fuel shortage?
Looks like Boeing (or in this case Rolls-Royce) is going to have to do some serious investigating…
A flock of Canada Geese could also have something to do with it apparently.
And then in that instance, you have thousands of feet of deep blue to let you slowly know you're either going to drown or be crushed lol
Right when I am going to fly to LHR in 2 weeks.. and I'm so fearful of flying anyway
When a plane crashes, it's international news. You should check air traffic sometime- there's hundreds of planes in the air at any given time. Hundreds of flights per day. There's maybe one or two accidents per year, and people don't always die (see this one).
I wouldn't be surprised if more people die in car accidents in one day than die in plane crashes in one year. There's really nothing to fear.
I'd personally rather have a brief moment to think instead of having everything cut off suddenly.
They do. I think the last time I heard an ace fact about air travel was that in the world on average each year more people are killed putting their trousers on at the top of the stairs and falling down than in plane accidents.
Wow. Judging by where it landed those people on the roads would have been crapping themselves!
Glad to hear there were no fatalities.
Glad to hear there were no fatalities.
Fatal statistics?
One person has a fatal accident every 22 seconds.
... and he's getting thoroughly fed up with it now.
One person has a fatal accident every 22 seconds.
... and he's getting thoroughly fed up with it now.
A little early to be saying that. According to the BBC the crew lost both engines and had to glide in. If they were a little low on approach (I guess technically an error, but normally easily correctable when the engines are working) the crew would have had no choice but to glide as far as they could.
I do that
I keep the door locked when I put mine on... Just in case.
I don't believe there are any documented cases of airliners suffering a fatal malfunction at cruise altitude. It's common for planes to drop a couple hundred or more feet while hitting turbulence, but none has ever crashed as a result.
Most airplane accidents will occur either just before landing (like this one) or just after takeoff. Not at high altitudes. So you wouldn't have that long to suffer, assuming you were even conscious.
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I say, a medal as big as a GE90.
The most infamous examples are those of the de Havilland Comet back in the 1950s, due to a fundamental design flaw.
The Comet was the first jet airliner, and first flew in 1949.
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