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Algeria 'loses contact with plane'
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Opus Angelorum
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Here is a study of weather and plane 'accidents', it's more than you think:
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/104/03/0316.pdf
This is indeed more than I thought. Although I would imagine that we have more control of the weather than we used to have (construction of the plane, information etc.)
Actually is more than that, but usually it impacts the landing more. Unless they were flying over some mountains.
Most of the crashes are first vanished planes until they find the crash site, except for the planes that crash near the airport or a town, like Taiwan flight this week.
dapperbandit
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Wait, it was flying over the Sahara?
Fuck that.
Fuck that.
SymbiantXenos
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What the actual fuck is going on?
Hopefully its found.
Hopefully its found.
Opus Angelorum
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Interestingly the number (percentage) of accidents caused by weather has remained the same, despite improvements in safety/construction:
* Percentages
It's a very standard year in terms of commercial aircraft incidents/crashes, but there have been more casualties than on the average
wow what the fuck. is there a thread?
what is with plane crashes nowadays. two days ago a 17 year old and his father died when their plane crashed into the pacific ocean. they were trying to beat a round the globe world record:
Indiana teen pilot dies on around-world flight
There was a thread.
MikeHattsu
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Are those absolute numbers? I imagine the amount of flights have increased massively since the 1950's, so it might be relatively much safer nowadays.Interestingly the number of fatal accidents caused by weather has remained the same, despite improvements in safety/construction:
Edit nvm
Opus Angelorum
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Sorry, I should have clarified those are percentages. Based on 1,300 incidents between 1950 and 2009.
TheAbsolution
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Aw man. That really sucks.
Much of the area it was flying over has a very sparse population (Sahara desert).
If it crashed or force-landed far from a populated area it is technically disappeared until found.
PhantomZone
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Twilight zone time :-/
Bizarre year of air travel.
Bizarre year of air travel.
Should be easier to find the plane (if it crashed) over such a flat and bright area
Opus Angelorum
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Mihael Mello Keehl
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Almost like a new plane every week
yeah, I know m8, but all these planes crashes lately....
11 million and 5000 what? Kilometers? Trips? (what is considered a car trip?) People?
Opus Angelorum
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I know on an intellectual level that the fact that four commercial airline disasters have occurred in recent times has zero influence on the chances of planes crashing the rest of this year (if I roll an unloaded dice and get 6 three consecutive times, the chance I'll get a 6 on the fourth roll is still 1/6), and moreover that planes are still statistically speaking much safer than cars, but I still can't help but find myself feeling a bit nervous for my mum and her partner, who are flying out to south-east Asia in September. Human nature to connect events like this and try to establish it as part of a bigger pattern, I suppose.
Oh shit..another one? Hope they made a successful crash landing, but the lack of comms and where they lost contact doesn't make it seem like this will end well ....
Heading to Dubai next month and I'm used to air travel, but this still makes me feel a bit uneasy about the trip...
....Heading to Dubai next month and I'm used to air travel, but this still makes me feel a bit uneasy about the trip...
People.
Thanks for the pic!
Opus Angelorum
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Important update:
BBC said:
What a year for plane crashes this has been so far, such a shame. Dying in a plane crash must be up there with the most horrible ways to go...
I can think of 1000 ways that are worse really.
How long has the plane been missing now?
CitizenCope
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Yeah we've gone over this before. Will still feel much more safe in a car than flying.
Opus Angelorum
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I agree, but it's nice to remind people of the odds.
Delta Assault
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...so that CNN guy's going back into the flight simulator?
The likely reason is that other reasons for crashes have improved at a similar rate. You would not see a difference in the breakdown percentages.Interestingly the number (percentage) of accidents caused by weather has remained the same, despite improvements in safety/construction:
* Percentages
Slayer-33
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Damn
TheContact
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Damn I hope it turns out okay, even if the plane had to hard land I hope everyone is okay and they find them. At least we know their flight path and it shouldn't be too hard to find them
TOP SHOTTA
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These stories are tragic and terrible and also terribly riveting when they are developing. It must be very sparsely populated land though. No pics, no nothing from this yet, anywhere.
I don't expect there are a lot of Twitterers in the Sahara Desert.
I wonder when it's safe to expect any....anything from this one.
It seems like a busy time for air disasters, but I think worldwide it's still about average. Though I am not quoting any source with that comment. I just know that these things happen, and sometimes the world isn't paying attention. I am an aviation fan, and I do follow this stuff. The world is watching a lot closer now, since Malaysia Flight 370.
I don't expect there are a lot of Twitterers in the Sahara Desert.
I wonder when it's safe to expect any....anything from this one.
It seems like a busy time for air disasters, but I think worldwide it's still about average. Though I am not quoting any source with that comment. I just know that these things happen, and sometimes the world isn't paying attention. I am an aviation fan, and I do follow this stuff. The world is watching a lot closer now, since Malaysia Flight 370.
NekoFever
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It doesn't make a difference to the likelihood of another one crashing.
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