Yemeni plane crashes with 150 aboard

[penigabz]

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Nope, flanker started that thread.

-RODION

Aw....sori, so balik ta sa Topic. Unsa jud d ay hinungdan sa pagka hagsa sa eroplano?

[rodsky]

Aw....sori, so balik ta sa Topic. Unsa jud d ay hinungdan sa pagka hagsa sa eroplano?

Still no reports as of this time.

-RODION

[samamar21]

another airline tragedy. louy ang mga victims. sana no pinoy.

[rickflag]

MV Princess of the Stars? of the Sun? r'member?

Just stay home.

heheh perhaps staying home is worst. you can't just crawl into a corner and wait for things to happen or else wa gyud kay asenso. they say that the plane is still one of the safest form of transportation. morag tinuod sad baya kay mas daghan namatay disgrasya sa dalan kaysa plane crashes kung i total kada tuig. well kung time na gyud nimo bisan pag naa ra ka inyo natulog mamatay gihapon ka. mao nga live your life na lang to the fullest kay temporary ra ni. look at the bright side, at least sa plane dili na mag problema family nimo palit ug coffin, mahal na baya karon, plus naa pay insurance makuha imo family.

[rodsky]

heheh perhaps staying home is worst. you can't just crawl into a corner and wait for things to happen or else wa gyud kay asenso. they say that the plane is still one of the safest form of transportation. morag tinuod sad baya kay mas daghan namatay disgrasya sa dalan kaysa plane crashes kung i total kada tuig. well kung time na gyud nimo bisan pag naa ra ka inyo natulog mamatay gihapon ka. mao nga live your life na lang to the fullest kay temporary ra ni. look at the bright side, at least sa plane dili na mag problema family nimo palit ug coffin, mahal na baya karon, plus naa pay insurance makuha imo family.

Yep, statistically speaking, it is still safer to ride an airliner than to cross a busy street.

-RODION

[rodsky]

UPDATE: Child found alive after Indian Ocean plane crash

(from CNN.COM)
A young child has been recovered alive after a Yemeni passenger jet crashed into the Indian Ocean en route for the Comoros Islands, an airline official said. More than 150 people were aboard the flight and rescuers earlier reported spotting debris and bodies in the water.

Child found alive from crashed plane - CNN.com

Lucky kid.

-RODION

[Bahalina-boy]

MV Princess of the Stars? of the Sun? r'member?

Just stay home.

basig mataymingan na matugpahan ta sa erpolano sa balay ig crash

[Dorothea]

^Bitaw pud noh, Bahalina-boy, sakto pud ka, hahaha. Naa na bitaw balay natugpahan sa eroplano a few months ago.

Mag unsa naman lang ta ani oi.

[Dorothea]

That's precisely my point. We are not talking about military avionics or systems. We're talking about systems implemented in airliners. Wala ma'y nag deny nga ga-exist ang remotely-piloted aerial vehicles. We were discussing its application on airliners, and I'm afraid that such systems do not exist.

-RODION

Na tan-awa, kung wala pa si penigabz ning ingon nga ga exist na diay ni sa military, motuo nalang gyud ko that the Decepticons did it. I guess it's not so far-fetched after all.

[Tarmac]

Na tan-awa, kung wala pa si penigabz ning ingon nga ga exist na diay ni sa military, motuo nalang gyud ko that the Decepticons did it. I guess it's not so far-fetched after all.

The automatic landing system on military aircraft penigabz talked about also exists in airliners. It involves flying a "coupled approach" where the plane's automatic pilot is coupled to ground-based signals on the final approach to the runway. Using those signals, the airplane follows a "radio beam" until it reaches the runway. If properly certified, the plane can actually land itself without human intervention save for the act of moving the throttles to idle thrust. Even braking and steering on the runway can be done automatically. Most large jetliners nowadays can do automatic landings (yes, even the ones flown by PAL and Cebu Pacific). In fact, in really poor visiblity that is the only way to get the aircraft on the ground.

Don't worry, there is no way terrorists can control a plane remotely even if they wanted to. They can't hack into the autopilot system and fly the plane from the ground because the system's architecture won't allow it.

Bad weather, an instrument approach, an airline being monitored for safety issues by EU aviation authorities. Without pre-empting the results of the investigation and any conclusions on the exact cause, I think it would be safe to say the accident had more mundane causes other than terrorists taking over remotely.

Ambut lang kaha sa Decepticons.

Re the child survivor. It will probably be found that the plane impacted the water at a shallow rate of descent and at a speed close to landing speed. If it had gone into the water in an uncontrolled dive, we wouldn't be talking about how lucky anyone could have been to survive the crash.