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Plane goes down in Ukraine killing all aboard
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:54 pm
by Narrock
AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
KIEV, Ukraine - A Russian passenger jet carrying at least 170 people — including 45 children — crashed Tuesday in eastern Ukraine after sending a distress signal, killing all aboard, authorities said. A Russian news agency said officials had ruled out terrorism, but the cause of the crash was still unclear, with various officials citing turbulence, lightning and a fire on board.
When are planes going to be safe to travel on?
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:55 pm
by Gidan
Planes are incredibly safe to travel on.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:56 pm
by Tikker
more people die in donkey related accidents than plane accidents every year
ps, for real
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:57 pm
by Narrock
gidan wrote:Planes are incredibly safe to travel on.
Statistics say so, yes. However, 3-4 commercial airliners going down worldwide every year is still 3-4 too many.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:37 pm
by dammuzis
3-4 out of how many flights?
99.9999999% safety rating is really high in anyones book
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:44 pm
by Gidan
How many cars crash every year? How about every day? How about trains? Hell a train derailed today too.
At this time. There is no safer way to travel then to fly.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:46 pm
by Gaazy
Id consider 3-4 crashes a year pretty damn good, by FAR better than what it takes for me to fly.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:53 pm
by Lyion
Tikker wrote:more people die in donkey related accidents than plane accidents every year
Donkey Shows are more dangerous than Airtran!
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:53 pm
by Sithos
Add up the number of deaths worldwide day by day by motor vehicles.It by far eclipses that of plane crashes. But because so many usually die at once in a plane crash vs only a few in a car accident (sorry to boil human life down to a numbers game) it is more newsworthy for lack of a better term
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:59 pm
by Narrock
Sithos wrote:Add up the number of deaths worldwide day by day by motor vehicles.It by far eclipses that of plane crashes. But because so many usually die at once in a plane crash vs only a few in a car accident (sorry to boil human life down to a numbers game) it is more newsworthy for lack of a better term
Still very sad though. Over 45 children died in this one.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:31 pm
by Martrae
That's a lot of kids for one flight.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:17 pm
by Gaazy
yeah it sure as hell still suck though that it happened
Re: Plane goes down in Ukraine killing all aboard
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:05 pm
by Phlegm
Narrock wrote:AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
KIEV, Ukraine - A Russian passenger jet carrying at least 170 people — including 45 children — crashed Tuesday in eastern Ukraine after sending a distress signal, killing all aboard, authorities said. A Russian news agency said officials had ruled out terrorism, but the cause of the crash was still unclear, with various officials citing turbulence, lightning and a fire on board.
When are planes going to be safe to travel on?
They forgot to mention the snakes... it's the damn snakes.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:16 pm
by Narrock
It was probably due to noob pilots who didn't know what to do in extreme turbulence conditions.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:23 pm
by Phlegm
Russian airlines are not known for their sterling maintenance record.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:32 pm
by araby
Yah Mindia, noone gives a shit about your airplane crash thread..
jk
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:25 pm
by Narrock
araby wrote:Yah Mindia, noone gives a shit about your airplane crash thread..
jk
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:05 pm
by Diekan
Hmm... I wonder...
Do you think the Russian FAA completely fucked up and failed to notify other key governmental agencies almost costing the lives of hundreds, if not thousands more? You know kind of like the fuck ups that used to run our FAA about... ohhhh... 5 years ago.