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Jesus...150 on board.
 
A Yemeni jetliner with more than 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, aviation officials in Yemen said Tuesday.

The jet was en route to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital Sanaa when it crashed about an hour before reaching its destination, officials from the national airline Yemenia said. There was no immediate news of the fate of those on board.

Yemenia Flight 626 left Sanaa at 9:30 p.m. for what was expected to be a 4½-hour flight. The airline has three regular flights per week to Moroni, off the east coast of Africa about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) south of Yemen.

Most of the 143 passengers aboard the Airbus A310 were Comoran, an official at Sanaa's international airport said. The aircraft also carried a crew of 11, for a total of 154 people on board.

There has been no indication of foul play behind the crash, the officials said.

The crash is the second involving an Airbus jet in a month. On June 1, an Air France Airbus A330 crashed off Brazil while en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. All 228 aboard are presumed dead. The cause remains under investigation
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/29/yemen.plane.crash/index.html
 
If it was the Airbus 310, that's an older type of plane. (at least 20+ yrs old)

RIP to the victims. Really sad though.


What's happening this year will all these accidents, deaths, etc?
 
I was thinking, I know nothing about the airline industry.

How often are new planes put into commission? Could all these crashes be results of old planes?
 
CelticKing said:
If it was the Airbus 310, that's an older type of plane. (at least 20+ yrs old)

RIP to the victims. Really sad though.


What's happening this year will all these accidents, deaths, etc?
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Aren't you planning to fly planes? This must be scaring the shit out of you.
 
I have only flown a few times, but every Airbus I have been on must have been old because they seemed like pieces of crap. I searched the internet about Airbus and frequently came across a saying...."if it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"

My last flight was in first class on an older Airbus and the plane made crazy weird noises and the lights flickered on and off all of the time. The flight attendants were sitting a few feet from me and I heard one tell the other how much she hated this specific plane, she called it a piece of shit. MADE ME FEEL COMFORTABLE for the rest of my flight. :sigh:
 
I've flown probably a couple hundred thousand miles on Airbi, and not found them to be any more (or less) offensive than Boeings. Old planes are kind of scary because they rattle and creak and smell nasty, but I'd guess brand new planes are probably actually higher risk, assuming the old plane has been properly maintained.

I'm looking forward to, and dreading, flying the 380 and the 787.

barfo
 
bah....there's so much riding on the 787 that it's probably going to be the most-tested plane in history.

Ok, slight exaggeration. But just slightly.
 
BrianFromWA said:
bah....there's so much riding on the 787 that it's probably going to be the most-tested plane in history.

Ok, slight exaggeration. But just slightly.
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Yes, that makes sense. But at the same time, it has the most new technology in it of any plane in recent history.

barfo
 
What's strange to me is that we've had two airline crashes that have happened during cruising altitude. Most airline crashes seem to happen on either takeoff or landing.
 
maxiep said:
What's strange to me is that we've had two airline crashes that have happened during cruising altitude. Most airline crashes seem to happen on either takeoff or landing.
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It was a long time ago, but I remember a documentary about early jet planes in France that pretty much exploded in the sky. It was really interesting and scary at the same time.
 
barfo said:
I've flown probably a couple hundred thousand miles on Airbi, and not found them to be any more (or less) offensive than Boeings. Old planes are kind of scary because they rattle and creak and smell nasty, but I'd guess brand new planes are probably actually higher risk, assuming the old plane has been properly maintained.

I'm looking forward to, and dreading, flying the 380 and the 787.

barfo
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One website I remember going to was a forum for airline pilots. I have no info other than what I read but the pilots seemed to think the Airbus planes took more engine just to keep in the air while the Boeings could glide easier.

I could be way off, but coasting is one reason I will never ride in a helicopter..because they don't coast.
 
bodyman5001 said:
One website I remember going to was a forum for airline pilots. I have no info other than what I read but the pilots seemed to think the Airbus planes took more engine just to keep in the air while the Boeings could glide easier.
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That could be right, but I suspect gliding isn't actually very relevant in terms of commercial airline crashes. How many recent crashes involve failure of all engines as the primary cause? I can only think of the US Airways flight that went into the Hudson - and that was an Airbus and it had a happy ending.

barfo
 
Vinyard said:
Aren't you planning to fly planes? This must be scaring the shit out of you.
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lol, yeah I'm not scared at all. Accidents happen, flying is still the safest way of transportation. :)


And BM, the A310 started flying 1983, last delivery of those type of planes came out on 1998. About 200+ are still in operation, mostly in Asia and Africa. (no American airlines fly them, basically very old)

The A330 with Air France, that was different story, they're top of the line aircraft, basically first accident where they've had casualties for that type of plane.
 
barfo said:
That could be right, but I suspect gliding isn't actually very relevant in terms of commercial airline crashes. How many recent crashes involve failure of all engines as the primary cause? I can only think of the US Airways flight that went into the Hudson - and that was an Airbus and it had a happy ending.

barfo
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Yeah, glad that you mentioned that.

Both Boeing and Airbus are safe, Boeing is here in the US, while Airbus is owned by Germany and France.
 
CelticKing said:
If it was the Airbus 310, that's an older type of plane. (at least 20+ yrs old)

RIP to the victims. Really sad though.


What's happening this year will all these accidents, deaths, etc?
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Mother Nature is getting us pumped up for 2012...

This is shitty though. I fly thousands of miles a year and I'm not too worried... Shit happens.
 
I'm flying to Palm Springs in August... hate flying... in fact I can barely handle the I-5 bridge that goes from the west to the east side of Portland over the Willamette. It's too high. Freaks me out...

Now I'm going to have 6 weeks to dread it and work myself into a paranoid frenzy about flying. I really didn't need to know this. :sigh:
 
Main Event;2054063 I fly thousands of miles a year and I'm not too worried...[/QUOTE said:
Wow...one round trip flight a year...you ARE an animal! :devilwink:
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If you aren't concerned about dying in a plane crash, you simply don't understand the gravity of the situation. :drumroll:
 
A child has been found in the sea alive after an Yemenia Airways plane crashed carrying 153 people.

Rescue workers pulled the 5-year-old boy from the Indian Ocean and had transported him to a medical centre.

Five bodies have been found so far. It had been flying from Sanaa to Moroni, and crashed as it was trying to land.

The plane had been carrying 142 passengers, three of which were infants, and 11 crew members. There had been 66 French nationals on the flight, and also passengers from Canada, Indonesia, Morocco, Philippines, Ethiopia, Comoros, Morocco, Yemen and Palestinian territories.
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link
 
Spud147 said:
You're as bad as Barfo... and that's pretty bad. :tsktsk:
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Yeah, Maris, you suck. You should be ashamed of yourself. How could you stoop so low?

barfo
 
hoojacks said:
you couldnt pay me to get on a plane in yemen
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basically this.

little scarier hearing a French plane crash then some third-world country's plane crashing. Who really knows if the plane was kept in the right shape in those places?
 
The one 14 year old girl who survived is lucky but I couldnt imagine how psychologically she is holding up for the rest of her life. Apparently she didnt feel a thing and swam to safety when the plane hit the water. But she lost her mother and was one of the only survivors out of 150 people.
 
last year I had to fly back from Port Gentil, Gabon. We were in an airplane that held 15 people (one of which was a good 400#, and had to be moved to the middle of the plane b/c they couldn't move enough baggage around to balance him out when he sat in the back), with grass growing across lines in the runway. It was pretty weird. But it's times like that that give me a bit of a rush, b/c it's either my time to go or a great story.
 
Wasn't that basically the premise of "Unbreakable?" Staging accidents to find lone survivors?
 
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