Another Airbus crashed...
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I remember reading something about how the Airbus was revolutionary in its design... can't remember the details but it was something to do with allowing the external structure of the plane to be the strength rather than an internal structure, and also they were the first to use some kind of composite material. The two things made the planes lighter and thereofre more economical and more agile.
I seem to recall that lot of people in aviation design had concerns about the new composite material potentially collapsing catastrophically under structural duress and nobody knew for sure how well it would hold up to continued air-flight.
I wonder if this is the start of the structural fatigue of airbus planes now.
- ********0
^ I'm wrong, its the new Boeing that has the composites and all that fancy new doo-dah.
But still though, another crash. = (
- Nairn0
Aye, that NY crash after 9/11 was suspected of being caused by the difference in materials in the tail section, so if it were to do with composites, the previous 8 years should've brought about a few more catastrophes.
- Samush0
no guys the plane isn't under there.
- It crashed after the underpowered outboard motor ran out of two-stroke.********
- hahahaJnr_Madison
- It crashed after the underpowered outboard motor ran out of two-stroke.
- ********0
yeah, the press is doing a wonderful job here, suggesting that airbuses are unsafe ("2nd crash. COINCIDENCE? anyone?"), just to make an interesting headline. these last two crashes were completely different models, the a310 was launched in the late 70s or so, the a330 in the 90s and it´s completely ridiculous to suggest a connection from the producer alone, they log billions of hours without problems, 40% of large airliners have to be airbuses right now, now they act surprised when it´s an airbus or a boeing when there´s a major crash. i wonder if them journalists are that stupid or they just don´t care about needlessly scaring the public. irresponsible.
- Journalists are that stupid.TheBlueOne
- And they don't care.TheBlueOne
- All around fucktwits, really.TheBlueOne
- Autokern0
In other news a train near Viareggio carrying GPL wrecked in a station in the centre of the town. The Liquid went out and got ignited by a spark. It blown out 5 buildings nearby. 16 dead and counting.
- cannonball19780
i wonder if its a pattern
- ********0
oups
- rylamar0
Wow, a 5 yr old found alive.
- i heard it was the 5yr olds fault, and that the 5yr old is working with the taliban********
- i heard it was the 5yr olds fault, and that the 5yr old is working with the taliban
- raf0
Forgive me the tinfoil hat, but it starts looking like a war. There are billions at stake and these are the same companies that do military contracts and lobby for unneccessary wars. What's stopping them from killing 150 people if that can divert enormous deals towards them?
- Who, the airline companies?********
- This seems far-fetched even to me, but..raf
- I just wondered if that was who you were referring to.********
- Who, the airline companies?
- Autokern0
Isn't quite early to start talking about that? 2 occurrences are still a coincidence, compared to the actual figure of planes built and flying.
- Corvo20
That plane was blacklisted and forbidden to fly into EU airspace. Apparently Yemen authorities didn't fix the problem. (heard on the news)
- ribit0
If you are looking for in-depth discussions on aviation crash investigation... this seems to be the best:
http://www.airliners.net/aviatio…Lots of pilots and aviation/tech geeks posting there.
- ********0
The interesting thing about airliner crashes is that the manufacturer gets the finger pointed at them before the operator. Imagine if they did that everytime some idiot jumped the central reservation in a car? "Another 200 car pile-up caused by a Ford....."