Plane crash: Germanwings A320 crashes in French Alps

Original post by Dodgypirate

The Costa Concordia made global news, so did that Korean cruise ship ...

What are you trying to argue here?

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Original post by Drewski

Enough of the baseless hyperbole. It's being reported as eight minutes of descent, not plummeting.

Calm down dear.

It's a jet going at 550-600 mph it's likely it would.

Reply 23

Original post by TornadoGR4

What are you trying to argue here?

Nothing, just pointing out your last remark was false :redface:

Reply 24

Original post by Dodgypirate

There was distress signal as they plummeted for 8 minutes, so it's likely to be engine failure.

We do not know if it plummeted, but we do know there was no distress signal from the plane.

Kindly cease with your pointless and irrelevant speculation based on zero knowledge.

Reply 25

Original post by Dodgypirate

Calm down dear.

It's a jet going at 550-600 mph it's likely it would.

What point are you trying to make? All jets travel that fast. All jets descend in order to land. There is no evidence that yet suggests this aircraft plummeted. So why say it did?

Reply 26

Original post by Drewski

We do not know if it plummeted, but we do know there was no distress signal from the plane.

Kindly cease with your pointless and irrelevant speculation based on zero knowledge.

The BBC report says there was :redface:

, and I'm hearing Reuters has too :redface:

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Reply 27

Original post by Drewski

What point are you trying to make? All jets travel that fast. All jets descend in order to land. There is no evidence that yet suggests this aircraft plummeted. So why say it did?

Does it matter if I used 'plummet' instead of 'descended'? It came down, that's fact :redface:

Reply 28

Amir al-Mumineen

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Yes if a plane is going hundreds of miles per hour, why would it suddenly nose-dive? It would continue going forward but at the same time it would be going downwards

The descent of the plane wouldnt be like how a shuttlecock falls from air from rest

:hmmm:

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Reply 29

Original post by Dodgypirate

The BBC report says there was :redface:

, and I'm hearing Reuters has too :redface:

The BBC site later corrected itself to say the signal was sent out by French ATC after they lost contact with the aircraft. The aircraft is known to have not sent out any signal. Which you'd know if you bothered to read the reports you're commenting on.

How would you feel if someone you knew was on that plane? Would you like to read someone wildly speculating about how they died? Not likely. I've had friends die in plane crashes, I've sat and read pillocks like you make comments that you have absolutely no reason or need to make just to try and make yourself sound special. I'm politely asking you not to.

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Reply 30

TornadoGR4

No one knows exactly how it went down until the box is retrieved and analysed. Plummet gives the impression it fell like a stone which may not be the case. Everything reported so far is speculation

Reply 31

Original post by Drewski

The BBC site later corrected itself to say the signal was sent out by French ATC after they lost contact with the aircraft. The aircraft is known to have not sent out any signal. Which you'd know if you bothered to read the reports you're commenting on.

How would you feel if someone you knew was on that plane? Would you like to read someone wildly speculating about how they died? Not likely. I've had friends die in plane crashes, I've sat and read pillocks like you make comments that you have absolutely no reason or need to make just to try and make yourself sound special. I'm politely asking you not to.

Why would I be looking for speculations? I would be looking for facts.

Now you're getting defensive, rude and antagonistic because someone has different views from you. I've got every right to make speculations - in fact everyone including TSR users and the victims' families are. How coincidental you have friends who died in a crash, I really do hope that's not a lie.

Peace.

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Reply 32

Original post by TornadoGR4

No one knows exactly how it went down until the box is retrieved and analysed. Plummet gives the impression it fell like a stone which may not be the case. Everything reported so far is speculation

Call it whatever you want, it still crashed.

Reply 33

Original post by Dodgypirate

Why would I be looking for speculations? I would be looking for facts.

Now you're getting defensive, rude and antagonistic because someone has different views from you. I've got every right to make speculations - in fact everyone including TSR users and the victims' families are. How coincidental you have friends who died in a crash, I really do hope that's not a lie.

Peace.

I'm ex-RAF, it's an occupational hazard.

Why would you be looking for speculation? I don't know. But you are. Post 11. Post 16. Just wild, baseless rumours.

It's not that I have different views, I'm deliberately not expressing any. That's a key difference that I suggest you think about. My degree is aeronautical engineering, I'd wager I know far more about aircraft than you, but I'm not here spurting it wild guesswork about a crash that's not even cold yet.

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Reply 34

mkap

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Original post by Jeanlucpicard

An Airbus A320 carrying 142 passengers and 6 crew has crashed in the French Alps en route to Dusseldorf.

The plane belongs to Germanwings.

What does the future of air transport hold? There have been reports of many plane crashes recently, what needs to happen to prevent them from happening?

My prayers go to their families, so tragic, no matter who they were or what religion they were death is death

Reply 35

Brachioradialis

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All these prayers will be useful no doubt. Keep 'em coming guys, God must be asleep.

Reply 36

joey11223

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People always overreact to plane crashes in a way you just don't get with other vehicles. Train crashes in India loads dead...lol Indian trains is the basic reaction. Small prop plane carrying 10 people crashes somewhere....FRONT PAGE NEEEWS.

I mean I won't pretend it's that accurate but I pulled some stat saying there's about 50,000 to 55,000 commercial flights a day (most are within the USA), so not including cargo, military etc. So what lets say we have 5 passenger planes crash a year, which we don't always do. 5 planes out of 191,625,00. So basically a one in 38 million chance a passenger plane is going to crash and we're assuming every "crash" causes mass fatalities which from the last few years we've seen isn't so. A lot safer than a car/bus.

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Reply 37

TornadoGR4