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08 Mar 14
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239 souls on board. 
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doesn't look good
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^^^^ understatement.
Whenever a plane goes missing of radar for this long it's 1.000000000000000000000000001 in the sea somewhere. |
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Still haven't found it. Two infants on board as well.
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Fox News--4americans
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no emergency call--strange
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Not strange at all, prob didn't even know about anything wrong until it was all over
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A 777 hasn't crashed before, I think, certainly no loss of life previously.
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Wrong, last year's San Francisco crash, where someone was run over by a fire truck included two who died from the plane.
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terrible waiting 6 hours to give statement, family will have been in terrible state.
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pilots fell asleep?
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Don't be ridiculous. There's 3 pilots on board and anyway the plane would be on autopilot.
It's disappeared off radar at 35,000ft suddenly, it appears, but it probably did not do this. A bomb? Unlikely as lots of wreckage would be floating on the sea and would have been spotted by now. Much more likely the flight computer had a problem feeding data hence it just 'vanishing' Horrible stuff. No hope of survivors :( |
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pilot on sky now explaining what could of happened
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didn't the air france just fly into the wter
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he says people out there still hav hope
 terrorism,piolt error DOESNT HAVE A CLUE  |
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There's lots of factors involved. AF 447 was no different.
Air France Flight 447, a scheduled flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, stalls and dives into the Atlantic Ocean while flying through a thunderstorm, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew on board. The causes of the crash were incorrect airspeed readings due to ice blockage of the aircraft's pitot tubes, inappropriate control inputs and the pilots not taking recovery action until it was too late. |
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I wondered if you are permitted to bring a parachute on a scheduled flight :
- both the TSA website for the US, and the CATSA web site for Canada say you can. There may be restrictions by the airline, however. The TSA page also says that they inspection process involve opening the chute. It will be up to you to repack it if they decide to do that. Now, if you are want to bring one because you think you will have an opportunity to jump out of a crashing plane, you will be very disappointed. - First, crashes are really very rare. 1 or so out of 10 million flights. - Second, most crashes occur with very little advance warning. If the pilots know something is wrong, then they work to fix it. Take offs and landings are the most dangerous time, and you would not have the altitude for the chute to deploy, nor time to get a door open and leave the plane. - Third, if you were at sufficient altitude, then, when the cabin is pressurized, it is physically not possible to open the exterior doors - they are held closed by many thousands of pounds of pressure because of the pressure difference between inside and outside. - Fourth, if, for some reason, the cabin was not pressurized and you could open a door, the doors swing open to the front of the plane. That means that you would have to push the door into a several hundred mile per hour wind in order to open it - not likely to happen. - Fifth, if, by some miracle the door was opened, then you would have a pretty high chance of hitting one of the control surfaces - wing or tail - when you jumped. That would either kill you immediately, or make it impossible for you to pull the ripcord. - Sixth.... Well, do I really need to list any more reasons.... It is simply not feasible to jump from a commercial airliner with a parachute under emergency conditions. |
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Rather strange though as it's not a big stretch of sea it's gone missing in
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Why are the media criticising the airline for their delay in reporting this? FFS, they don't know what happened to the flight! Now everyone in the media is guessing as to what happened....complete bull
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indeed, everyone guessing but whatever the cause they won't be finding survivors sadly, poor sods
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^^^ Answer found on Yahoo
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...that I posted
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No wreckage = alien abduction.
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Bermuda triangle
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China Syndrome.
Congrats to our board, btw Brendan, |
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its smells NAM all over
ground to air missile |
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yes cracking day.
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Suggestion that two stolen passport were used
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That's about average isn't it?
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Is it? Not implying anything btw
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- Sixth.... Well, do I really need to list any more reasons....
The outside temperature is -40 degrees centigrade. |
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Vietnamese air force jets have spotted two large oil slicks.
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I would imagine they do know where the plane is but until all the relatives have been contacted it's a bit insensitive to break it to the world that the plane is smashed up in the sea. Even though it's quite obvious.
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Would the fact that these oil slicks are being reported as being six and nine miles long mean the plane broke up well above the surface?
Surely if it hit the sea in a single piece the oil would not be spread out over these large distances. Add to that there are reports of two people travelling on board on stolen passports. Third the plane disappeared off radar with no prior warning from pilots. I think I'm close to making my mind up on this one. |
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Wouldn't the oil have been burnt in an explosion? On board terrorists bringing the plane down without a panic call would seen unlikely.
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I was once on a flight where someone was wearing a parachute.(American, about 25)
I can remember thinking at the time "what a knobhead". Mr Leopard has confirmed that my thoughts were correct. And even if everything Leopard has said could be overcome, he also has to put up with 250 people trying to wrestle it off him. |
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they are talking about jet fuel not oil as such, if someone blew the tail off with a bomb not impossible for wing and belly tanks to survive and then break up in the fall and the fuel not to burn, has additives to prevent explosion as well
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Some smaller planes would probably be suitable for using a parachute if you sat near the back but how would the exit procedure work? I've never seen a "parachute on" light beside the "buckle your belt light! If you got up and ran to try and open the door mid flight, people would probably jump on you.
I can't imagine the pilot saying "for those with parachutes, you may now use them" (Though perhaps ryanair might try and sell you one..) I suppose if it broke up and you were thrown clear as sometimes happens and didn't lose conciousness THEN you might be ok. Some on first space shuttle disaster may have been conscious as the cockpit descended but had no parachutes (The first space shuttle actually had ejector seats for a time). |
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have they looked behind the fridge?
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