View Poll Results: Which currently flying is the safest?
DC 9
5
2.84%
The MD80 and higher series
6
3.41%
Boeing 717/737/757/767/777/747
87
49.43%
Saab 340
21
11.93%
Bombardier Q400
11
6.25%
Airbus 319/320/321/330/340
3
1.70%
CRJ 200/700/900
12
6.82%
Emb 135/145
20
11.36%
Emb 170/190
11
6.25%
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01-30-2010, 08:50 AM
#41
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Yes, I giggle! But it's ok, those pilots have not been fired, but they have been "retrained". I guess Delta sent them back to a Part 61 school, where they went back to being told "This is a runway, it is where we land. That, with the blue lights, is where we taxi, hence the name Taxiway."
Imagine your sitting in your hospital bed and the doctor comes in and says, "While doing your surgery, I decided to try a shortcut. You could have died, but you didn't. Anyway, there were a bunch of people observing and they saw what I did. They told the head surgeon and he was mad, so he is sending me to re-training this weekend. I should be back doing surgery by Monday."
Would you come back to him for your next surgery?
Would you want to fly in the back of a plane that these guys were flying?
Imagine your sitting in your hospital bed and the doctor comes in and says, "While doing your surgery, I decided to try a shortcut. You could have died, but you didn't. Anyway, there were a bunch of people observing and they saw what I did. They told the head surgeon and he was mad, so he is sending me to re-training this weekend. I should be back doing surgery by Monday."
Would you come back to him for your next surgery?
Would you want to fly in the back of a plane that these guys were flying?
01-30-2010, 11:05 AM
#42
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Yeah, but the Concorde crash was not due to mechanical/design flaws. That would be like saying Delta 767's have a flaw that makes them land on taxiways sometimes
Cause of the Concorde crash: Continental Airlines (non-standard installation of the metal strip that fell off a DC-10)
Cause of the Concorde crash: Continental Airlines (non-standard installation of the metal strip that fell off a DC-10)
Oh boy...you must be French. 1. The Concorde was about 6000lbs over max gross. 2. The Concorde was overfueled, pressurizing the tanks. 3. The Concorde had a history of catastrophic "tyre" failure. 4. The Concorde took off downwind and with an excessively aft CG. 5. The landing gear was missing a spacer.
Continental is a scapegoat.
Also...the safest plane is the Mu-2. Duh. And the 3 most dangerous things in aviation...Doctor with a Bonanza, Pilot with a toolbox, and a FA with a chipped tooth. Couldn't resist...
01-30-2010, 12:05 PM
#43
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Oh boy...you must be French. 1. The Concorde was about 6000lbs over max gross. 2. The Concorde was overfueled, pressurizing the tanks. 3. The Concorde had a history of catastrophic "tyre" failure. 4. The Concorde took off downwind and with an excessively aft CG. 5. The landing gear was missing a spacer.
Continental is a scapegoat.
Also...the safest plane is the Mu-2. Duh. And the 3 most dangerous things in aviation...Doctor with a Bonanza, Pilot with a toolbox, and a FA with a chipped tooth. Couldn't resist...
Continental is a scapegoat.
Also...the safest plane is the Mu-2. Duh. And the 3 most dangerous things in aviation...Doctor with a Bonanza, Pilot with a toolbox, and a FA with a chipped tooth. Couldn't resist...
Still, this would be a human caused crash, not mechanical.
MU-2 may be safe, unless you are within 1000 yards of it without earplugs
01-30-2010, 07:38 PM
#45
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Careful the 20 series Learjet and the Jetstream 31, Jetcommander, or anything else with Garretts resemble that remark.
01-30-2010, 08:43 PM
#47
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The loudest I've experienced was driving under a Harrier (AV8B) on very short final with my sunroof open. Followed by the F14 on takeoff then the F117 flying overhead at no more than 1000ft AGL. Though I have been told the Concorde was pretty much equal to the F14....
01-30-2010, 10:22 PM
#48
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I don't believe a CRJ-900 has been lost for any reason. But, like the Concorde, it's a very small fleet, so when it does happen, it will very quickly become a statistically dangerous airplane.
Also, the 90-seat CRJ-900 has only been on the market since April 2003.
01-30-2010, 10:32 PM
#49
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And the Brasilia EMB-120 was lost in other parts of the world.
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