07-24-2014, 07:07 AM
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Another passenger jet missing? (Air Algerie AH0517)
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An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard -- including 50 French citizens -- disappeared from radar early Thursday over the Sahara during bad weather.
Air navigation services lost track of AH0517 about 50 minutes after takeoff at 0155 GMT,
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...ears/13084329/
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07-24-2014, 07:13 AM
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The heck is going on with planes in 2014?
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07-24-2014, 07:14 AM
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Location: Calgary.
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This is terrible news for sure - my thoughts go out to the crew, passengers, and their families. It appears that the situation was due to weather in the area....
On-going news updates from Telegraph.co.uk are here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...oard-live.html
Latest update:
13.57 An Algerian aviation official has told Reuters the plane has crashed.
No more details are currently available on the location, but Niger security sources say planes are flying over its border with Mali to search for the plane.
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07-24-2014, 07:37 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
The heck is going on with planes in 2014?
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The same thing that goes on with planes every year?
Anyway, CNN executives must be doing a fist pump right now.
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07-24-2014, 07:39 AM
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5 Canadians, reportedly.
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07-24-2014, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The same thing that goes on with planes every year?
Anyway, CNN executives must be doing a fist pump right now.
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There hasn't been this many crashes since the 90s.
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07-24-2014, 07:55 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
There hasn't been this many crashes since the 90s.
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Sure there has:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...rcial_aircraft
Three crashes inside of a week is pretty damned unusual. But in 2011, for instance, there were six accidents involving planes carrying at least 50 passengers by the end of July.
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07-24-2014, 07:59 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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And people wonder why I have a fear of flying. Yes, yes, it's the safest means of transportation.
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07-24-2014, 07:59 AM
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I was going to edit and say, not this many large crashes with huge casualties since 911.
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07-24-2014, 08:02 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I was going to edit and say, not this many large crashes with huge casualties since 911.
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That is true. MH17 was, I believe, the largest single death toll in an aviation incident since 9/11. It has certainly been a tragic week.
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07-24-2014, 08:39 AM
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is it time for an an "ongoing" thread? hopefully, they can find the plane and it survivors.
It would be interesting to see some stats on all of the worlds airlines and the number of crashes per million miles flown.
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07-24-2014, 08:46 AM
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First Line Centre
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Tragic week for air travellers. RIP.
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07-24-2014, 08:46 AM
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07-24-2014, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Igster
And people wonder why I have a fear of flying. Yes, yes, it's the safest means of transportation.
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Yeah me too. I totally get it's not rational as a result of statistics ... I don't care. I can survive a car accident, it's pretty damn unlikely you survive a plane crash.
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07-24-2014, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Igster
And people wonder why I have a fear of flying. Yes, yes, it's the safest means of transportation.
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I'd prefer to take a means of transport where fatalities are met with shock rather than deemed acceptable loss.
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07-24-2014, 10:38 AM
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07-24-2014, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
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I look at that list and only see 2 major airliner type disasters for all of 2011 and both were far less people than the crashes this year. This year definitely seems an abnormality in terms of large airliner/multiple fatality type crashes.
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07-24-2014, 11:43 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I love flying. Still do. This trend doesn't change that. And I like to go to exotic locations.  |
Thread is about a horrible plane crash. You some how use it as an excuse to bring up your exotic travels?
MoneyGuy, ladies and gentlemen.
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07-24-2014, 11:44 AM
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The thread was also commented on about how people don't like flying...
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