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Boeing 777 Crashes in San Francisco

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,373 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    yoloc wrote: »
    Hates watching stuff like that because im flying in a few weeks.

    Worse again to read about while mid flight to NYC.

    Hope all made it out okay


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    KevIRL wrote: »
    Worse again to read about while mid flight to NYC.

    News just in that a 40,000ft water spout has just erected itself, roaming the mid-Atlantic, behaving erratically and unpredictably.

    Not trying to concern you in the slightest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,522 ✭✭✭kona


    yoloc wrote: »
    ~Ballix, them airline companies know eventually planes are going to fall out of the sky. Its just cheaper to pay of the victims families rather than re design the whole plane to make it safer

    Wow, that's crap


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,373 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    News just in that a 40,000ft water spout has just erected itself, roaming the mid-Atlantic, behaving erratically and unpredictably.

    Not trying to concern you in the slightest.

    Lol. Flight is a domestic one, new Orleans to new York, so should be safe from that thankfully


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    KevIRL wrote: »
    Lol. Flight is a domestic one, new Orleans to new York, so should be safe from that thankfully

    Breaking news just in, it has moved into the east coast of the US. :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    The same type of plane crashed at Heathrow a few years ago (all survived).
    Its pretty weird listening to the air traffic controller as it happened:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCK62U6Fob0


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Foxnews failing to point a finger at a terrorist organisation...yet


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Are you being a naughty boy Kev, using your phone mid flight?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Are you being a naughty boy Kev, using your phone mid flight?

    Wifi on board. Quite common in US.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭sausagehead




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭MrPoker


    yoloc wrote: »
    ~Ballix, them airline companies know eventually planes are going to fall out of the sky. Its just cheaper to pay of the victims families rather than re design the whole plane to make it safer

    Possibly the most idiotic post I have ever read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    According to Al Jazeera, reports in that all passengers have been accounted for.

    Live feed here (with volume as opposed to that other link posted above): http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭sausagehead


    Reports in that all passengers have been accounted for.

    :(:(:(:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    Delighted to hear that all passengers and crew are ok!

    It's gonna make for a class episode of Air Crash Investigations though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    It's gonna make for a class episode of Air Crash Investigations though!

    Do you hope crashes happen so a new series of ACI can be made?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,373 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    Are you being a naughty boy Kev, using your phone mid flight?

    Wifi on board. Was able to stream the hurling earlier when it was on. Living in the future really is great.


  • Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Haha you could live on a plane, going to and fro, as long as there was wifi :-P

    Glad all on the SF plane are ok


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    Do you hope crashes happen so a new series of ACI can be made?

    Pretty much... As long as no one is hurt!


  • Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Jake1 wrote: »

    Hopefully this figure doesn't rise any higher - wasn't expecting it given how we discovered people were walking away unscathed.


  • Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hopefully this figure doesn't rise any higher - wasn't expecting it given how we discovered people were walking away unscathed.

    to be honest, I was expecting more initially.


    heres a recording from ATC,

    http://wandr.me/Audio/AAR214-KSFO-Crash.mp3


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Utter nonsense.

    Plane crashes are extremely rare and the overwhelming majority of them are down to a chain of unpredictable errors.

    Planes are frequently redesigned and constantly maintained.

    If planes were expected to eventually fall out of the sky plane crashes would be common.

    ...and no one would want to fly

    ...and the aeroplane manufacturers and airlines would go out of business.
    Uhh, no. There have been several inherent faults with B****** that simply would cost too much to put right, and don't happen that often, but do happen - eg rudder jam hard right, and are just semi-ignored. SIL is an aircraft mechanic and is very antsy about flying. So am I(antsy), but the incidences are just so infrequent. Cabling routed through fuel tanks is the undeniable, before anyone shoots me down...


  • Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    No it was a passenger plane.

    Asiana 214 from Seoul

    Good pic

    Tail section is gone, the undercarriage seems to have collapsed or came off and there's a crack through the middle. It's lucky it stopped when it did.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    you can clearly see plenty of dopes grabbed their baggage before they got out. Probably held everyone else up at the back

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    you can clearly see plenty of dopes grabbed their baggage before they got out. Probably held everyone else up at the back

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I facepalmed when I saw that


    They're supposed to leave everything and get out asap(barefoot?) and then people go off and try to save their bags possibly slowing down other people.


  • Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    I facepalmed when I saw that


    They're supposed to leave everything and get out asap(barefoot?) and then people go off and try to save their bags possibly slowing down other people.

    Yeah and one looks like she is carrying a heavy enough bag, one that definitely is slowing her down.
    Lesson learned for the rest of us, if you ever see people doing that plough them over


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Uhh, no.

    :confused: Which part of my post were you disagreeing with?
    There have been several inherent faults with B****** that simply would cost too much to put right, and don't happen that often, but do happen - eg rudder jam hard right, and are just semi-ignored. SIL is an aircraft mechanic and is very antsy about flying. So am I(antsy), but the incidences are just so infrequent. Cabling routed through fuel tanks is the undeniable, before anyone shoots me down...

    Directive about the rudder issue ordering that it be fixed by 2002, and there hasn't been an incident since 1999.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    :confused: Which part of my post were you disagreeing with?



    Directive about the rudder issue ordering that it be fixed by 2002, and there hasn't been an incident since 1999.
    Yeah, but it took a loong time to get sorted and I don't remember them grounding the fleet. You didn't mention the cabling bit..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭marialouise


    Preliminary results revealed: 2 hour recording...good quality. No anomalies or concerns discussed by crew during approach to SFO. The flight was cleared for the visual approach to RWY 28L, which is confirmed by the crew. Target speed for the approach was 137 knots.

    7 seconds prior to impact, a call to increase speed was made on the CVR.

    4 seconds before impact, the stick shaker went live.

    Approx. 1.5-sec prior to impact, call to go around was made

    CNN has released a video showing the moment of the impact http://t.co/1YRlClcCdF


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    The girl talking in the back ground sounds like an absolute dumbass!


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