These guys are serious...?

[EJM1701 4]

Point taken. However, I would like to know you "put your money where your mouth is"...book yourself on one of these flights and let me know how it turns out. I suppose the Asiana KSFO crash was an example of Korea's finest when the pilot dropped the &@($*-end of that 777 into the sea wall. Was that incompetence or did the blocks just slip off the rudder peddles? There is a reason that the top carriers in that region go looking elsewhere for pilots..As for me, I will stick with Delta.

[WR269 367]

Point taken. However, I would like to know you "put your money where your mouth is"...book yourself on one of these flights and let me know how it turns out. I suppose the Asiana KSFO crash was an example of Korea's finest when the pilot dropped the &@($*-end of that 777 into the sea wall. Was that incompetence or did the blocks just slip off the rudder peddles? There is a reason that the top carriers in that region go looking elsewhere for pilots..As for me, I will stick with Delta.

Not going there. Plenty of accidents with Us carriers where the crew has made errors of judgement as well. I agree the Asiana accident was extreme, but before you go advocating safety abroad, have a closer look at home, it will keep you just as busy.

 

But to reinforce my point, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

 

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[LHookins 3,113]

 

 

everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

 

In a court of law, yes.  But in the court of public opinion, fueled by a sensationalist media, people can be crucified on someone's speculation.

 

Hook

[WR269 367]

In a court of law, yes.  But in the court of public opinion, fueled by a sensationalist media, people can be crucified on someone's speculation.

 

Hook

I agree Hook, but I thought the days of Harlem and people being burnt alive upon being proven "guilty" on hearsay were over.

 

This is supposed to be the 21st century. Very sad indeed.

[CrownCityMisfits 58]

Well, I'm on another list now.

[psolk 3,057]

So we needed a 3rd topic on this?? How could you miss the other 2?

[KevinAu 441]

Not going there. Plenty of accidents with Us carriers where the crew has made errors of judgement as well. I agree the Asiana accident was extreme, but before you go advocating safety abroad, have a closer look at home, it will keep you just as busy.

 

But to reinforce my point, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

 

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And luckily for US Air, all this MH370 news completely overshadowed the gear collapse in PHL last week. Luckily the media only understood that as an aborted takeoff from a wheel problem. What actually happened was much more interesting.

[bjratchf 80]

You guys know that with ADS-B the airplane's position is interrogated every 7 minutes right? 

[KevinAu 441]

Was ADS-B in use there?

[peppy197 165]

Reminds me of the DC9 (type?) that got completely swallowed in a Florida swamp some years ago.

[tvieno 0]

Reminds me of the DC9 (type?) that got completely swallowed in a Florida swamp some years ago.

Yup, a DC 9-32 in ValuJet Flight 592. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592

 

Another swamp crash was Eastern Flight 401, an L-1011 back in 1972. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401