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Cheating death: Passengers survive flipped over burning plane
Seatbelts, seatbelts, seatbelts. (rt.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This will make a good mayday episode!
I hadn't thought of that, but it would!
that bird, a piece of junk????
common guys, it flipped over in a terrible landing and did not even break up. that thing was amazingly strong.
common guys, it flipped over in a terrible landing and did not even break up. that thing was amazingly strong.
The term junk was what got it there in the first place. You are correct in that there was no hull break, but if it would have had the instrumentation halfway modernized, the rough landing that started all that may not happened in the first place. That is old style seat of the pants flying and considering the wx, they were lucky to even get on the ground.
My definition of "junk" is perpetuated design incompetence. Take Airbus and the joystick control. That thing should have a condom on it..hahaha. Marked with a big red X.
Great luck that all were wearing seatbelts....and that the fire was contained so quickly......
Oh Wayne my dearest friend...we are one...your folks prolly got off at Ellis Island at some point and my folks were scattered after WW2. This is how it is in the former USSR: a lot of the companies are run by people who were in senior postions in the state/military system. In the morning they line up the wotk force and inspect 'em. Basically they are looking for the effects of booze the night before. You think I am kidding? Well I ain't. Haha. I have to blow my trumpet here beacuse a lot of the really good engineers came from Cz and former E Germany. And I am NOT talking all in academic terms..I mean on the ground first principal blue collar problem solving. The kind of stuff that differentiates a bunch of cockroaches in the galley to a chaffed main feed for the ovens. Wayne..I can tell you that the only probs are corruption...no more and no less...son't get me wrong I know a good USA MBA when I meet one...but I also have 'em up agin the wall when they take on stuff they should not. Closets have more uses than taking a crap. Excuse me..but that is the truth.