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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 9:34 pm
Better start paying the pilots at a rate which doesn't drive them to suicide.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 9:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2014 at 9:56 pm by SteelCurtain.)
If I were a Southeast Asian airline CEO, I would be pushing to rename my company to something unrecognizable as Asian. Atlantic Airways. Air Oceanus. (Don't wanna use Oceanic. Flight 815, ya dig.)
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 10:22 pm
How about Landlubbers Airways?
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 10:24 pm
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Just my first impression with (very) limited facts, but I'm thinking the incident is more like AF447 than MH370.
I hope there is more information available soon, perhaps maintenance squawks, or more analysis of the pitot problem and the avionics on the Airbus product.
I'd really caution against comparing to MH370 till we know more, that Air France loss, so far, is a better match for what little we have to work with.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 10:24 pm
Let's wait until more concrete information emerges before determining if it is even seemly to be pointing fingers.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 28, 2014 at 11:29 pm
Well I guess I better cancel my plans to go to Singapore.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 29, 2014 at 12:57 am
It's a tough region for flying.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 29, 2014 at 1:29 am
Arrgh I was hoping to see some bermuda-triangle conspiracy theorists, or at least ancient aliens. Oh well, maybe they just got raptured.
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RE: OK - What Is It With These People And Airliners?
December 29, 2014 at 8:46 am
(December 28, 2014 at 9:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30620647
Quote:The search has resumed for AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501, which has gone missing with 162 people on board, an Indonesian official has said.
The Airbus A320-200 disappeared over the Java Sea early on Sunday en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia.
They bought their sat navs off ebay.
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