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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
that's nothing, 2 pilots actually landed this airplane
they had a story on this on the discovery channel show Mayday. it was a plane that was past it's life cycle running thousands of hours over what it should have been, and as a result had stress fractures that separately formed and eventually all connected together and tore the roof of the plane off midflight. the only death was a stewardess that was sucked out with the explosive decompression, but the pilots managed to land it and save all the passengers |
I watched that episode. I don't think it was over is life cycle, it just had a lot of hours on it. Like 40 years old. One of the women saw a minor crack by a rivet, this is where it started. That one crack eventually spread and tore all that part of the plane off. The entire time the pilots couldn't talk to the passengers/stuartists. The fatality was a women who was well known with the company and many of the passengers, and was planning on to retire.
I hate and love watching Mayday, it fascinates me, but since I fly about once a year, I am left thinking about this stuff all the time. I am going to Europe in 3 weeks and I am fearing my plane will crash in the ocean and I will drown.
The last episode I watched, the people cleaning the plane, before take off, forget to take the tape off like 2 of the sensors, which caused the stuff in the plane to malfunction, and they almost crashed in the ocean, luckily the pilot got out of the clouds to get his bearings quickly enough to straighten the plain from a freefall dive.