Bellend Sebastian Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 For those of you flying any time soon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics Assuming those figures are reliable, I'd take them as reassuring. Although you may want to avoid going to the airport on a motorbike
Finnegan Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 Surely you've more chance of getting cancer than being in a plane crash. By a long, long way.
Samilktray Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 Aliens abducted it, its the only answer. There coming.
StanSP Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 For those of you flying any time soon:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics Assuming those figures are reliable, I'd take them as reassuring. Although you may want to avoid going to the airport on a motorbike Motorcycles really don't fare well!
Granno Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 Weird. If a tragedy has happened then R.I.P all I'd still fly though. These things really do happen once in a blue moon.
StanSP Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 Weird.If a tragedy has happened then R.I.P all I'd still fly though. These things really do happen once in a blue moon. They're rare. But in the past when one plane crashes/falls or somrthing happens to it, then there is usually something else happening to another plane soon after e.g. http://www.planecrashinfo.com/ and then add today's. I know they may be small planes but that's kinda not really my point.
DB11 Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 http://www.planecrashinfo.com/worst100.htm 2001 really was not a good year
Guest Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 If we were meant to fly, God would have gave us wings. OR the means to build them. Bingo! Beat me to it.
Big Ol' Bob Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 What is the difference between a French mans arms and a French mans Aeroplane? He can keep his arms in the air.
MarkDeVries Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 What is the difference between a French mans arms and a French mans Aeroplane?He can keep his arms in the air. What is wrong with you?
BlabyFox Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 apparently is was struck by lightning which made both engines fail.
Head Honcho Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 All I know is this always happens a couple of weeks before I fly anywhere!! :eek: Theres no hope really I guess but I hope some miracle happens and they can find someone alive I was actually on that flight this time last year I doubt they'll find any survivors
JoeyB Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 Details are emerging of the events leading up to the disappearance of an Air France flight from Brazil to France in the early hours of Monday. Flight AF 447 left Rio de Janeiro, bound for Paris, at 1900 local time (2200 GMT) on Sunday 31 May. The aircraft in question, an Airbus A330-200 with registration F-GZCP, had been in operation since April 2005. Shortly after the aircraft's scheduled arrival time in Paris of 1110 local time (0910 GMT), it was announced that the flight was missing. Here is what is known so far: 2200 GMT, Sunday 31 May: AF 447 takes off from Rio de Janeiro's Galeao International Airport, heading for Paris Charles de Gaulle. 0133 GMT Monday 1 June: Last radar contact with flight AF 447, according to the Brazilian air force. The jet had just passed the Fernando de Noronha islands, about 350 km (217 miles) off the coast of Brazil. Graphic of Airbus A330 0200 GMT: The aircraft crossed through a "thunderous zone with strong turbulence" according to an Air France statement. 0214 GMT: According to the airline, an automated message was received indicating an "electrical circuit malfunction" on board. 0715 GMT: Air France decided "the situation was serious", according to the airline's chief executive Pierre Henri Gourgeon. Plans to establish a crisis centre are drawn up. 0910 GMT: Aircraft was due to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. 0935 GMT: Paris airport officials announce to the public that flight AF 447 is missing. 1017 GMT: Brazil's air force confirms a search and rescue operation is under way near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha. 1036 GMT: Air France confirms it is "without news" from the aircraft. 1116 GMT: Senior French minister Jean-Louis Borloo says the plane would have run out of fuel by this point, and adds: "We must now envisage the most tragic scenario." He rules out a hijacking. 1140 GMT: Brazil's air force says Flight AF 447 was "well advanced" over the Atlantic Ocean when it went missing. 1142 GMT: Air France confirms it received a message about an electrical fault from the aircraft. 1213 GMT: Air France suggests the electrical fault may have been caused by the plane suffering a lightning strike. 1303 GMT: Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he fears British citizens may be on board the aircraft. 1515 GMT: It is reported that most of the 228 people on board the missing airliner are Brazilian, while at least 40 are French and 20 are German, according to a French minister. 1632 GMT: An Air France spokesman confirms there are 80 Brazilians on board the missing plane, as well as German, Italian, American, Chinese, British and Spanish citizens. 1651 GMT: French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the prospect of finding survivors from the flight is "very slim". Link BBC I really hope they find the plane or some people before too long!
Basingstoke Fox Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 What is the difference between a French mans arms and a French mans Aeroplane?He can keep his arms in the air. Airbus employs around 57,000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Final assembly production is at Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), Seville (Spain) and, since 2009, Tianjin (China).[4] Airbus has subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and China. From Wiki Not just a French Mans aeroplane. And thats not funny.
Guest Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 To be honest, I find the jokes a little tasteless. My other half flies for business a fair bit, and things like this always make me fear the worst.
StanSP Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 To be honest, I find the jokes a little tasteless. My other half flies for business a fair bit, and things like this always make me fear the worst. Same. Associated with someone who flies or not, it's still a major tragedy for those affected.
Cobbo Posted 1 June 2009 Posted 1 June 2009 I do not like flying much. This will not help. Those poor souls
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