blueinsa said:blue underpants said:Don't tune into Euronews, they are talking about headless corpses and body parts, had to turn it off rapidblueinsa said:Sky desperately trying to focus close up on stills of the crash site and asking an "expert" what he thinks he can see, desperate to see something I think none of us actually wants too.
150 have lost their lives, show some respect ffs.
There is absolutely no need for news broadcasts like this when friends and families of those lost are still coming to terms with the shocking news and are probably still trying to find out news themselves.
The editors should hang their heads in shame.
blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
All aircraft suffer from fatigue, flying hours will have an effect on this. Servicing is obviously a main factor and priority. Check operators fleet details for average age of aircraft, this said, which aircraft will you be allocated ?blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
When they do a major service, they pretty well take them apart, inspect, and rebuild them, so the important bits should be perfectly safe, and not age dependent, unless they find a major fault, in which case they will replace if they can, and scrap if they can't.blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
foetus said:I don't care what the stats say, flying always makes me a tad nervous. I hate not being in control and if something goes wrong, you've got too long to dwell on your impending death.
RIP those poor, poor people.
Aviation safety
Last year was the safest aviation year on record.
According to safety analysts Ascend, there was one fatal accident per 2.38 million flights in 2014, compared with every 1.91 million flights the year before.
Although these figures did not include the loss of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, where 298 people died, which was counted as a war loss, rather than an accident.
Cheesy said:blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
Providing maintenance schedules are adhered to then yes, there's no issue whatsoever, although it's less about age in years and more to do with airframe hours. All aircraft will be fotted with a "fatigue meter" too which records the stresses placed on the airframe. I worked on VC10's in the RAF that had been flying since the 1960's and they had an excellent safety record.
Understandable really.blue underpants said:Some Lufthansa crews are refusing to fly aircraft Tonight stating ''personal reasons''
whp.blue said:Cheesy said:blue underpants said:There's a few good aircraft people on here, can you tell us if it's safe for a 24 year old aircraft to be flying?
Providing maintenance schedules are adhered to then yes, there's no issue whatsoever, although it's less about age in years and more to do with airframe hours. All aircraft will be fotted with a "fatigue meter" too which records the stresses placed on the airframe. I worked on VC10's in the RAF that had been flying since the 1960's and they had an excellent safety record.
VC10's were so over engineered they are like flying tanks they are arguable one of the greatest aircraft ever built.
Why, there is no reason for stupid knee jerk reactions, planes over 20 years are perfectly safe so long as they are properly serviced, and that's down to the company that owns them, and the manufacturer.BlueHammer85 said:Should be a aviation policy. No passenger planes over 20 years old to fly.
BlueHammer85 said:Should be a aviation policy. No passenger planes over 20 years old to fly.
blue underpants said:16 exchange students from Haltern Germany on board, tragedy for such a small Town
I'd trust airline inspections over personal car inspections. Do you want to ban every car over 20years old? You are more likely to die in car accidents than airplane accident.BlueHammer85 said:Should be a aviation policy. No passenger planes over 20 years old to fly.
Always makes me wonder why our aircraft industry went down the pan and bits of airplane's are built all over the planet and bunged together by the French.Cheesy said:whp.blue said:Cheesy said:Providing maintenance schedules are adhered to then yes, there's no issue whatsoever, although it's less about age in years and more to do with airframe hours. All aircraft will be fotted with a "fatigue meter" too which records the stresses placed on the airframe. I worked on VC10's in the RAF that had been flying since the 1960's and they had an excellent safety record.
VC10's were so over engineered they are like flying tanks they are arguable one of the greatest aircraft ever built.
Queen of the Skies.