Parafox

I don't really understand AI.

Where do catapults fit in with this scenario?

As extra insurance, get a season ticket.

Odd coincidence, Mrs Para said similar about having Trump's face on it

I disagree. I know you might say blue lights and sirens might give some protection but trust me, avoiding colliding with some drivers who don't have a clue what to do combined with arrogance and ignorance, and plain stupidity, I still find it surprising that I have driven ambulances and response cars for over 30 years and never had an accident, ever. And I don't put that down to luck. So much of driving is about complete awareness, anticipation, defensive driving, hazard awareness. It's not just getting in the car and driving to X destination. I maintain, if you can't remember at least 50% of your journey, you haven't been aware for the other 50%. For the general public, driver training is just about adequate enough to let people get behind the wheel, but once that test is passed there's no progression. Most drivers will have skill fade once they've passed because they don't have to be "on it" in front of an examiner any more.

I've been pronouncing bein as "bean" or "bine", when it's actually be-in.

The flag is up and it's waving:

Make sure you get seat 11A, just in case

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Every public statement that this man makes sounds like it's been written by a child.

The Iranian government and the population strike me as being a lot less stable than most other countries that have nuclear capability.

Depends what time I get up

If I have to be up at 3am to be at EMA for a 7am flight I'm likely to be grumpy. If the travel time to the airport plus the check in process takes longer than the flight, I'm grumpy. So that's most European destinations. Flying to Florida was no bother for me as I had time during the flight where I wouldn't be stressed about the destination arrival procedure. Even the kids on board were chilled. One bloke on board the return flight about 2 rows ahead of me had a seizure. I did my paramedic thing with help from the cabin crew. On returning to my seat my youngest daughter (7) declared me to be "amazing" That was a memorable experience.

Oy, get your own example. Here's mine from 2 weeks ago:

Yep, I would agree with all of that. Include in that, social services and community psychiatric services doing welfare checks with their clients and getting updates by phone.

And this is exactly why the ambulance service and A&E are so overburdened. The problem lies with demand at source. Since the GP's went off radar during the pandemic, everything changed regarding getting a face to face consultation.

The closure of the General News topic has made this place so much less interesting and lively. Shame.

Following the sad death of Brian Wilson and reading the tributes I have listened to Pet Sounds for the first time. Paul McCartney said you don't know music until you've listened to this album and George Martin said the Sgt Pepper album wouldn't have happened without it. I have to agree. It's quite remarkable. I don't know how I have missed it before now.

I agree. Boeing is American. MAGA... At all costs. It might be controversial but, the world population knows that corruption is what runs most countries and their economies. It's hidden in plain sight and there's feck all that us, the little people, can do about it. It's been the same for centuries. I imagine when the human race was developing there would have been stronger and dominant people or tribes, tribes that would have a feared individual that would have then have almost unilateral power over that tribe. Extrapolate that theory to the present day and the world and humanity and cultures and the powerful "leaders" aren't that far from prehistoric man. It's just that now, rocks and slings have now become the sophisticated tools of warfare and aggression. This may be my simplistic thoughts.

Clearly, Boeing and the FAA didn't learn anything from the issues that they surely knew of regarding Boeing and particularly this type of aircraft. They must have been aware of the repeated return by various airlines and the similar faults of each, mainly engine failures on test. I guess what you're saying is that it's a type of "publish and be damned" approach by Boeing. If it turns out that some failure on the aircraft caused this tragedy and it can be traced back to poor practice, then IMO Boeing should have the most severe sanctions and legal penalties such that it goes bust.

Even so. The most likely explanation in my view is that the aircraft hit the ground, broke apart and he was jettisoned away from the plane before the explosion.

In which case he may have been able to undo his seatbelt and make it to the exit in front of him. But the aircraft was in the air for a couple of minutes and for anyone to realise what was about to happen and then act, is a remarkable feat. And yet as I said earlier: And if you're sitting in your seat expecting a routine take-off how do you, in a split second of realising what was happening, leap out of your seat, get to the exit door and unwind the locking wheel in time to then force the door open outwards against the pressure generated by the airflow over the fuselage and the jump? This thing was airborne for seconds before it crashed.

True, I remember the incident. But that was, IIRC, a pre-planned action not someone panicking and trying to escape a stricken aircraft. And if you're sitting in your seat expecting a routine take-off how do you, in a split second of realising what was happening, leap out of your seat, get to the exit door and unwind the locking wheel in time to then force the door open outwards against the pressure generated by the airflow over the fuselage and the jump? This thing was airborne for seconds before it crashed.

No, you can't actually. All the doors on an aircraft are deemed emergency exits. the only dedicated emergency exits are over the wings and this in case of a landing on water. Once the take off procedure has started all doors are sealed. Only when the aircraft is stationary can the emergency exits be opened. Also, the aircraft was only at 650 feet so the seatbelts would still have been fastened. Anyway If what you say is possible, why did nobody else jump? And his seat position was not next to the aisle. How did he get past the other 3 passengers in his row, make his way to the emergency door