ANOTHER plane has gone missing

There are around 100,000 flights per day around the world.

At any given time, at least 400,000 people are in the air.

In 6 months, 2 planes have gone down for unknown reasons. That's 2 out of, very roughly, 17,500,000.

If you think those are "ridiculous" odds I presume you never go near a car, then?

That's not the point. This year has been pretty freakish.

It hasn't, really.

Planes will, inevitably, crash every now and then. The numbers that have had accidents we've had this year is no different to previous years. Only difference is the death toll.

There are around 100,000 flights per day around the world.

At any given time, at least 400,000 people are in the air.

In 6 months, 2 planes have gone down for unknown reasons. That's 2 out of, very roughly, 17,500,000.

If you think those are "ridiculous" odds I presume you never go near a car, then?

Yeah but look at the incidents/accidents. One plane crashing into the ocean, another one being blown up (supposedly) by a rocket and now this one. It's probably all just a coincidence but it is still very unusual.

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There are around 100,000 flights per day around the world.

At any given time, at least 400,000 people are in the air.

In 6 months, 2 planes have gone down for unknown reasons. That's 2 out of, very roughly, 17,500,000.

If you think those are "ridiculous" odds I presume you never go near a car, then?

Yeah but look at the incidents/accidents. One plane crashing into the ocean, another one being blown up (supposedly) by a rocket and now this one. It's probably all just a coincidence but it is still very unusual.

I'm talking about being unable to track very large aircrafts, not planes crashing.l

I could be wrong as I'm a 90s kid, but to have this many widely reported aviation accidents in a year is unusual, isn't it?

Having one shot down is unusual, but having crashes isn't.

Worldwide aviation deaths every year average out at, roughly, 700-800.



You only find that surprising because you haven't got the first clue how the system works and are talking from a point of utter moronic ignorance and acting as if you're the gospel truth. If you took the time to understand what goes on you'd realise how easy it is for something to happen.

No it's surprising because it is very rare that a commercial airliner can go completely missing. You referenced the number of flights and you stated that crashes aren't that uncommon.

So how many of the crashes end up with commercials flights going missing without a trace? Not very many. And what are the chances of that happening (potentially) within a few months of each other?

I suggest you stop talking out of your arse because you're making a fool of yourself

inb4 Blame Islam !

You're the only person in this thread so far who's mentioned Islam. I'd advise you to get that chip off your soldier and lose the victim complex, it's embarrassing.

No it's surprising because it is very rare that a commercial airliner can go completely missing. You referenced the number of flights and you stated that crashes aren't that uncommon.

So how many of the crashes end up with commercials flights going missing without a trace? Not very many. And what are the chances of that happening (potentially) within a few months of each other?

I suggest you stop talking out of your arse because you're making a fool of yourself

You're the only person in this thread so far who's mentioned Islam. I'd advise you to get that chip off your soldier and lose the victim complex, it's embarrassing.

Any idea how often they disappear from a screen? It can happen all the time for any number of reasons, more often than not, however, they simply pop up again later on.

The RAF's Quick Reaction Alert aircraft are often launched because military radar has picked up something that has eluded civilian ATC because of issues with transponders - the two systems work differently.

The only thing that's unusual is the fact that these two have then gone on to crash. In the case of this most recent one, heavy storms, especially electrical, is easily enough to interrupt a transponder signal and prevent that from getting in/out of the aircraft, with the storm itself then being enough to down the aircraft.



What you have to understand is the difference between the systems. Civilian Air Traffic Control is not a radar in the conventional sense. It doesn't "see" the aircraft; it's not a signal that's sent up, bounces off the metal work, and then back to the radar station. It's purely radio-based on the signal coming off the aircraft's transponder. The Civilian ATC can only see you if you're sending out that signal. You can only get BBC1 on your tv if BBC1 is working. That's the case here. For whatever reason, and in this most recent case it's clearly the reported storms, the signal was interrupted, so the flight is then 'missing'. Normally, they'd just pop up again on the other side of the storm. You have no idea how common that is.