USVirgin Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Seems to me the Indonesian flag carrier, Garuda, was controlled by the military, as was Thai Airways, so, yes, the army could be an airline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 If someone was to list all the airplane crashes in say the last 10 years I'm fairly sure Boeing would account for more than Airbus. P.S. The Yemeni plane probably crashed because of poor maintenance. 3rd world country = 3rd world maintenance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 The Yemeni plane probably crashed because of poor maintenance. 3rd world country = 3rd world maintenance. Maybe so, but not necessarily. I snipped this from www.pprune.org [color:blue]Difficult AirportI last flew to Moroni just last week and we approached from runway 20. Winds weren't so bad that day, but on the previous time I flew there about 6 weeks ago, the winds were favouring runway 02 so we came in on the ILS. The turbulence on the approach was so severe we had to disconnect the autopilot and fly manually and the winds weren't even that strong. It was largely due to the hills sitting on the right side of the approach into runway 02 (or the left side when you are coming on on runway 20) and windshear is always a factor you have to contend with in Moroni. The approach into runway 20 is anything but a straight in approach. There is no such thing as a 10 mile or even 5 mile straight in approach because of the hills to your left. You are doing a visual approach from right base and constantly turning to align yourself with the runway and only the last mile or so are you actually completely aligned with the runway. Because of this, my company has designated Moroni as a 'difficult airport' and we are only allowed to fly there during the day, and before we are allowed to operate there, we have to undergo special training with an instructor captain, i.e. both the captain and first officer have to go through this 'difficult airport' training. The thought of going there at night just makes me shudder.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 ... so I guess god was not willing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Yeah ..lucky little boy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 It woulk take some time as the airlines would not want to rush into that .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 If someone was to list all the airplane crashes in say the last 10 years I'm fairly sure Boeing would account for more than Airbus. P.S. The Yemeni plane probably crashed because of poor maintenance. 3rd world country = 3rd world maintenance. Big tick!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 If someone was to list all the airplane crashes in say the last 10 years I'm fairly sure Boeing would account for more than Airbus. P.S. The Yemeni plane probably crashed because of poor maintenance. 3rd world country = 3rd world maintenance. Big tick!!! Yes, but I believe Boeing still has more planes flying than Airbus...so that stat is invalid. Better stat might be what % of Boeings fail/crash due to structural defects/design flaws Vs. The % of Airbuss that go down for the same reason... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Yeah ..lucky little boy.. It seems now there were no survivors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 It appears it was trying a second landing, so unlikely to be the plane, more likely to be pilot error. One survivor. 14 year old girl. Lucky her. But I bet she'll be traumatised for life. Girl survives Yemen plane crash Details have emerged about the rescue of the only person known to have survived the crash of a Yemeni-operated plane off the Comoros islands. [color:red]A French rescuer said he had spotted the 14-year-old-girl in choppy waters amid bodies and wreckage[/color]. He said she was shaking as he pulled her up. The girl was taken to a hospital in capital of the Comoros, Moroni. Five bodies have also been recovered. The plane came down in bad weather with about 153 people on board on Tuesday. [color:red]The Airbus 310 was attempting a second landing when it crashed.[/color] The rescuer told France's Europe 1 radio of finding the girl. "We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her," he said. "She was shaking, shaking. We put four sheets on her. We gave her hot, sugary water. We simply asked her name, village." Dr Ada Mansour, who treated the child in hospital, told AFP she was conscious and talking, but added: "We are trying to warm her up because she was freezing." It is believed the girl lives in Marseille and was travelling with her mother to the Comoros. There were 66 French nationals on board, and the French military were involved in the search. Most of the plane's passengers had flown on a different Yemenia aircraft from Paris or Marseille before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. The French transport ministry had earlier said the Airbus 310 plane had been banned from France because of "irregularities". The crash was the second involving an Airbus aircraft in recent weeks. On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board. An airline spokesman said poor weather was more likely to have been a factor in the crash than the condition of the plane. Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer also told Reuters news agency that the plane had recently undergone a thorough inspection overseen by Airbus and conformed to international standards. Gen Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, French naval commander in the Indian Ocean, said the plane had come down about 15km (eight nautical miles) north of the Comoran coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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