missing airasia plane....162 people on board including crew
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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Prayers to the families. How so incredibly sad.
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Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/is-it-safe-is-it-not-safe-fox-host-speculates-metric-system-brought-down-airasia-flight/
Fox News host Anna Kooiman speculated on Sunday that an AirAsia flight could have gone missing because international pilots were trained using the metric system.
During breaking coverage of missing Flight QZ8501, Kooiman asked former FAA spokesperson Scott Brenner if the “real reason” the plane had disappeared was because of the “different way other countries train their pilots.”
“Even when we think about temperature, it’s Fahrenheit or Celsius,” she pointed out. “It’s kilometers or miles. You know, everything about their training could be similar, but different.”
Brenner, however, said that the major difference between international pilots and U.S. pilots was the reliance on automatic pilot.
“And a lot of that… is because a lot of crashes are due to pilot error,” he explained. “So, if you try and eliminate any potential risk, you try and eliminate the pilot’s ability to make incorrect inputs into the aircraft.”
“It’s not just a difference in the way that we measure things?” Kooiman replied. “Is it not as safe in that part of the world? Because our viewers may be thinking, ‘International travel, is it safe? Is it not safe?’”
“It’s incredibly safe,” Brenner pointed out. “It’s the safest mode of travel you can have. But just on training, I believe our U.S. pilots are very well trained… They also actually fly the aircraft when they’re in the cockpit versus, a lot of times as soon as those wheels are up, a lot of times folks are required, foreign pilots are required to hit that autopilot almost until wheels come back down again.”
Co-host Charles Payne added that many of the recent international incidents could have occurred because foreign pilots did not have a “cowboy attitude” like American pilots.
Watch the video below from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast Dec. 28, 2014.
It's a testament to the technology and training we have created that an instance like this is so rare.
I think every flight I'm on at some point I introspectively wonder if I'm insane for getting into a metal cigar with a couple of engines strapped to it while traveling 600+ miles per hour at 35,000 feet.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
And bizarrely that metal cigar at 35,000 feet is far less dangerous than virtually all other means of travel.
(I came across this article, dated July 2014, when reading something else on the guardian this morning and thought I'd pop it up on here if anyone is interested)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/24/avoid-air-travel-mh17-math-risk-guid
Pretty good job by the pilot!
sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-boeing-747-jumbo-jet-land-without-one-of-its-la-1676291444
At least all went well there...also that was one long flight from the airport I'm familiar with Gatwick to Los Vegas.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/africa/mh370-debris-investigation/index.html