One of my best friends in a mechanic for Midwest Express. These planes basically fly themselves. It almost takes a act of God to crash these things--like birds flying into the engines or bad weather.
I read about cars crossing the highway medians and smashing into cars going the opposite direction. Now if you don't worry about that happening, you shouldn't worry about flying.
I read about cars crossing the highway medians and smashing into cars going the opposite direction. Now if you don't worry about that happening, you shouldn't worry about flying.
I am a sales rep for an electronic component distributor and I can tell you first hand companies will do anything to save a penny on components. They will take a lower quality untested equal part as long as the spec. sheet says it is fit, form and function. Most of our millitary, aero, and automotive customers are still using leaded parts in their assemblies because they are too lazy to go leadfree. The entire world went leadfree back in 2004. So when these manufactures can't get brand new leadfree parts fresh off of the line they will buy the shit from chinese brokers that are either fake or very old (somewhat 1999 date codes).
These contract houses bid so low on cost for production and offer such short leadtimes that they become late or close to being past due on builds that they literally don't care where they get their components and materials. I don't care what brand you buy these days whether it is Sony, Samsung, TDK, Texas Instruments, Welch Allyn or any other brand of products all of this shit is made at the same contract manufactures in Asia and Mexico and they are made using questionable outdated materials.
I know it's a very rare occurence that a plane goes down but what if they made these commercial planes like some military ones?
At least passengers would have a fighting chance if a plane is going down fast and the top of the plane automatically comes off and the seats all get ejected with parachutes. Or how about if there's a huge parachute type thing on the plane itself and it at least slows down the plane when it's diving.
At least passengers would have a fighting chance if a plane is going down fast and the top of the plane automatically comes off and the seats all get ejected with parachutes. Or how about if there's a huge parachute type thing on the plane itself and it at least slows down the plane when it's diving.
" "Flying is actually one of the safer things we do probability-wise," Rothbaum said. And research is showing that flying has only gotten safer in recent years.
In fact, the lifetime odds of dying in an air travel accident are 1-in-20,000 compared with 1-in-100 for an auto accident and 1-in-5 from heart disease (based on 2001 statistics)."
"....In general, Rothbaum said, if a person's fear of flying interferes with life, keeping one from attending a wedding or accepting a job promotion, it would be wise to enter some form of cognitive-behavioral therapy."
Fwiw
Going back to 1967 I have flown in more rattle trap aircraft than most and actually survived a couple of real bad landings in helicopters so today I figure if my number is up then it's up. Flying does not scare me at all.
To each his own, I hate rollercoasters and won't ride one. Go figure.
wil..
Going back to 1967 I have flown in more rattle trap aircraft than most and actually survived a couple of real bad landings in helicopters so today I figure if my number is up then it's up. Flying does not scare me at all.
To each his own, I hate rollercoasters and won't ride one. Go figure.
wil..
In an effort to make the ride more exciting than the previous 'hit' I have the feeling that they are getting a little close to the limits of what a normal person can withstand 'comfortably' (and who knows, perhaps also getting slightly bold on the structural design of it)
I rather do bungee (have done the tallest in the World) than a rollercoaster
something tells me this is not even remotely feasible
Think about it, how much do 300 parachutes cost? A normal airline (Say Continental which is pretty big ) has a fleet of 350 planes. Cost aside....this particular crash might have happened very fast.....hard to get 228 people jumping in parachutes that easily......IF they can because many will be very afraid and paralized by fear and well, you don't stand a very good chance on your own, on open sea
the question I have is, aren't these things suposed to have a beacon for localization purposes? I know that the thing is at the bottom of the sea but still..........
