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Yemeni plane crash

How is this related to Michael Jackson? Other things are allowed to go on in the world?



/All joking aside, it's very sad that all those people died in the crash.
 
Cave Man said:
If it aint a Boeing, I'm not going.
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Why both companies have planes crash most of the time crashes are due to pilot error not the plane. Also, the chances of you getting on a plane of any type that will crash is very slime and lower than you getting in a car accident going to the airport.
 
Hopefully it isn't traced to the carbon fiber reinforced tails falling off both planes.
 
brax.j said:
Why both companies have planes crash most of the time crashes are due to pilot error not the plane. Also, the chances of you getting on a plane of any type that will crash is very slime and lower than you getting in a car accident going to the airport.
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Where is your data from?
 
brax.j said:
See my above post both Airbus and Boeing have similar safety records and most of the time crashes are caused by pilot error not something wrong with the plane.
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Yeah I guess you're right, you can't always blame the planes.

Thing that sucks though is that, because of one or two guys, you end away the lives of hundreds of people.
 
rgarjr said:
Yeah I guess you're right, you can't always blame the planes.

Thing that sucks though is that, because of one or two guys, you take away the lives of hundreds of people.
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Ya, but so few errors actually end up in a plane crash that air travel is very safe.
 
This tit for tat between advocates of the two big manufacturers is a little silly. What about the Turkish Air 737 that cracked in half approaching Schiphol or the British 777 that fell short of the runway at Heathrow?

It will be interesting to see what brought this 310 down though.
 
It seems as if it was caused by a poor maintenance record… the bad weather was just the catalyst.
A Yemeni airline which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France because of "irregularities", France's transport minister has said.

Dominique Bussereau told parliament of ongoing concerns about the safety record of the Yemenia Airbus 310.
In Paris, Mr Bussereau told legislators that the Yemenia Airbus 310 which crashed was not permitted to fly into France, and raised concerns about the transfer of passengers from a plane classed as safe to one which crashed into the ocean.

"A few years ago, we banned this plane from national territory because we believed it presented a certain number of irregularities in its technical equipment," Mr Bussereau told parliament.
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BBC link
What a way to bookend June… :(
 
Yikes i think it was a airbus a-310 and i flew on one of those on the way to ireland on aer lingus:eek:
 
Agh

I am flying on July 4th. That said alone its on an American holiday our independence day and I said I would never fly on such a holiday after 911 and I have to fly outta washigton dc to Germany. And my dillema is I am supposed to fly on a airbus a330 or a340. Both similar just the latter is 4engines not two and a tad bigger. But the a330 is the same one that airfrance was flying that went down. Apparently all the electronic gizmos that might have been the cause of the crash have been replaced but now I'm trying to reschedule my flight so I can take a trip 7 Boeing. I think I'm just being paranoid.


Posted quickly from my iPhone so don't bash to hard if there are a few typos. Also has anyone flown with united or lufthansa airlines And if so which one did you like better?
 
For international flight I have taken Lufthansa, not too bad, but I didn't feel they were as friendly as BA or KLM.

Boeing or Airbus, it don't matter to me. If the plane is going down, it is going down.

It is sad though when accidents might have been prevented if maintenance was done. The child surviving is a miracle, it is just not her time to go. Her ordeal must have been terrifying though. :(
 
andrewsd said:
And my dillema is I am supposed to fly on a airbus a330 or a340. Both similar just the latter is 4engines not two and a tad bigger. But the a330 is the same one that airfrance was flying that went down.
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Don't sweat it, you'll be fine. Just pop a couple of lunestas when you take off. ;)

Also has anyone flown with united or lufthansa airlines And if so which one did you like better?
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Other than Southwest, all the US carriers suck compared to the internationals. Costs are higher because they have to fly to Rinky Dink, Idaho and other glorious metropolises, thus they cut services.

Best airline I've flown in Virgin Atlantic. It tops!
 
Cave Man said:
Other than Southwest, all the US carriers suck compared to the internationals. Costs are higher because they have to fly to Rinky Dink, Idaho and other glorious metropolises, thus they cut services.

Best airline I've flown in Virgin Atlantic. It tops!
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For international flights, US carriers are not too bad actually. I have flown AA to London, it was pretty decent.
 
Cave Man said:
Best airline I've flown in Virgin Atlantic. It tops!
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That is who I always fly with they have great service.

andrewsd said:
I am flying on July 4th. That said alone its on an American holiday our independence day and I said I would never fly on such a holiday after 911 and I have to fly outta washigton dc to Germany. And my dillema is I am supposed to fly on a airbus a330 or a340. Both similar just the latter is 4engines not two and a tad bigger. But the a330 is the same one that airfrance was flying that went down. Apparently all the electronic gizmos that might have been the cause of the crash have been replaced but now I'm trying to reschedule my flight so I can take a trip 7 Boeing. I think I'm just being paranoid.


Posted quickly from my iPhone so don't bash to hard if there are a few typos. Also has anyone flown with united or lufthansa airlines And if so which one did you like better?
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You are being paranoid like I said above you have a better chance of being in a car accident going to the airport than have the plane your in crash.
 
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