Plane Crash...

[exotic_island_girl]

on Greece. Sadly there's no survivors.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8944885/

my prayers goes to them and to their family.

 

[tuc biscuit]

shit

 

[GoldenDelicious]

shit

 

[foreigngirl]

shit

 

[HumorMe]

I hope b fold is safe.

 

[HiDnGoD]

my prayers goes to them and to their family.

..

 

[Raina]

That's really sad.

 

[monstermmf]

I believe some other things happened last week. A Russian girl in one of my classes was telling me there was a malfunction in one plane and it had to make an emergency landing. Like loss of an engine or something, not positive so don't be a dick and jump my case, like some of you can be quick to do. Still she mentioned two different things, and how she was nervous about flying last week. And then this happened today. I'm going to go look around and see what I can find on those two last week.. So you don't think I'm an idiot..

 

[bran987]

scary

 

[monstermmf]

Here's one of them from the 8th.. Plane flying to Tunisia.. 15 Deaths

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=200481&source=r_technology

Date: August 6, 2005 Time: 15:40
Location: Off Palermo, Italy
Operator: Tuninter Flight: 1153
AC Type: ATR-72-202
Reg: TS-LBB cn: 258
Route: Bari, Italy - Djerba, Tunisia
Aboard: 39 Fatalities: 16 Ground: 0
Details: The aircraft developed engine trouble while en route from Bari Italy to Djerba, Tunisia The crew contacted Palermo ATC for an emergency landing but ditched into the sea approximately 19 miles north of Palermo. The pilot reported that both engines had failed. Possible fuel starvation or contamination is suspected.

 

[Mr. dB]

A man whose cousin was a passenger on the plane told Greece’s Alpha television he received a cell-phone text message minutes before the crash. “He told me the pilots were unconscious. ... He said: “Farewell, cousin, here we’re frozen,” Sotiris Voutas said.

damn

 

[monstermmf]

Alright.. I knew there were two..

This was the second

Date: August 2, 2005 Time: 16:04
Location: Toronto, Canada
Operator: Air France Flight: 358
AC Type: Airbus A-340
Reg: F-GLZQ cn: 289
Route: Paris, France - Toronto Canada
Aboard: 309 Fatalities: 0 Ground: 0
Details: The plane overran Runway 24, broke in two and caught fire. There was severe thunderstorms at the time of the landing with rain, lightning and hail. All 309 aboard escaped. There were 43 injuries. The pilot landed the plane too far down the rain-slick runway making it virtually impossible to stop the plane before it ran off the runway.

 

[monstermmf]

damn

Double Damn

 

[foreigngirl]

all this is making me scared to fly overseas again

 

[monstermmf]

Yeah, I'm flying out of Paris in two weeks.. connecting at Dulles, then to Columbus..

 

[exotic_island_girl]

I hate flying and scared of it but yet I still fly because I love traveling. I hate turbulence, freak the sh$t out of me.

 

[SoKlueles]

ive never flown
but if u think about it theres alot less plane wrecks than car wrecks
of course not as manyplanes fly as cars drive but dang
at least you have a chance at survival in a car

 

[monstermmf]

Well, really the rate of plane crashes is super low. And if you notice, these were smaller planes, the ones causing death, and the larger Air France flight, was weather related and everyone made it out ok. Knock on wood, but I have yet to be worried on a plane I've flown in. I have made 8 flights over throughout Europe in the past 3 months and none of them bothered me a bit, even though I didn't know the airlines. You just have to remember the rate of airplanes crashing is like nothing. I just don't know what happened with this trend. Sad thing, and yes very scary.

 

[Mr. dB]

That's really rough that the passengers knew that the pilots were unconscious, and knew they were all goners for at least ten minutes before they crashed.

 

[wutangnomo]

That's really rough that the passengers knew that the pilots were unconscious, and knew they were all goners for at least ten minutes before they crashed.

I read that too.

Apparently one guy text messaged his cousin minutes before the crash saying that he knew the pilots were unconscious and that he was going down. He gave him his final farewell. Absolutely crazy.