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Cheating death: Passengers survive flipped over burning plane
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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.
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.
@ Roland where were you born, I suspect it was someplace in the former Soviet Union, or simply you have no idea what the hell you are talking about, or all of the above. The Lada for all practical purposes in spite of being designed by Fiat was pure, unadultarated crap; how can you say that you prefer it over the VW. And talking about aircraft, if what came out of the Sukhoi, Mig, Tupolev, etc. stables were so good how come they sold nothing to Western airlines. Have you ever rubbed you hand over the skins of any of these aircraft, well it is like rubbing sand paper; have you ever sat inside of any of the fighters, well it is like sitting at the controls of an old steam locomotive dating back to the early 1900s. And I don't want to mention the quality of the engines, they can not be overhaualed, they are dumped when they reach 1500 hours, like an empty Coca Cola bottle. About the electronics, well, they are so "pedestrian" in the words of Aviation Week and Space Technology and so inferior that it is absurd to compare them with what Western manufacturers provide.
Great luck that all were wearing seatbelts....and that the fire was contained so quickly......
common guys, it flipped over in a terrible landing and did not even break up. that thing was amazingly strong.