Davey Jones
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Lets not forget the terrorist dream to bring down an airliner.
There have been planes who descended rapidly for whatever reason and recovered. I've watched a lot of the Air Crash Investigation programmes that explain how they figure out the reasons for a crash or near crash. And rapid descent has occurred on a couple of them, but I can't recall the reasons now.
oldman,
This plane that crash the A-320 is 25 years old and,like anything else things wear out. We'll have to wait and see what those black boxes tell us.
It feels to me like a deliberate thing.. like a pilot suicide. But of course we will have to wait for the official ruling, if they are able to determine it.
It feels to me like a deliberate thing.. like a pilot suicide. But of course we will have to wait for the official ruling, if they are able to determine it.
Couldn't he just have hung himself rather than take all those people with him? Or are you saying he was some kind of terrorist?
There actually was an big airplane crash due to the pilot committing suicide. Why did he want to take some many innocent people with him?!
I believe that was an Arabian airline. I would hate to think that it was a pilot suicide. At United, if you even get caught joking about that, you are terminated, like right NOW! Crew members are like anyone else, there are certain things that can be mentioned or spoken about in a serious tone, but not joked or made in a threatening manner. Makes sense, right?
AS: This was the law of the land at one time. No one could question any of the Captain's moves. Today, that has all changed with the CRM program. Crew Resource Management allows for any crew member to speak up, if they believe there is an issue that the Captain may be over-looking or not doing properly. Now that I think of it, maybe it's the Egyptian airline that went into the ocean nose first.
In my 33 years of flying, I have had three of what I call, close calls with fate caused by mechanical problems. Thankfully, we all made it down and no one even had a scratch. I retired with what we in the business call, "No bent metal."
Don't remember the one in Toronto, but the Miracle on the Hudson is burned into my memory.. What a dramatic landing.
Although my husband used to say that any landing everyone walks away from is a good landing.
There actually was an big airplane crash due to the pilot commiting suicide. Why did he want to take some many innocent people with him?!
I've got a bad feeling about this crash. The plane appears to have gone into a long, and steady descent, with no apparent communications with the crew. That tells me that they were not able to continue piloting this aircraft. It's probably to early to speculate about this being a "hostile" act...but nothing else seems to make sense.
8 minutes from loss of control, or from start
of descent to impact, and no radio messages!
This is sinister, I think.
Mike.