Planes
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@Machpants my flying was limited to GTA games
And it can be a lot of effort without cheat codes to get a plane. In the game I mean!
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Might want to give flying with air France a miss!
Air France pilots come to blows in cockpit mid-air
Air France under scrutiny following recent incidents which put passenger safety at risk.
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Ex Israeli F-16s operated by private company. (13 odd minutes)
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@mantissanet said in Planes:
Ex Israeli F-16s operated by private company. (13 odd minutes)
Love they're still using their A4 sticks
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Assuming thats original 70s flight control systems? Avionics upgrade looks amazing
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@mantissanet said in Planes:
Assuming thats original 70s flight control systems? Avionics upgrade looks amazing
Yeah looks similar to what the RNZAF would've got
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Saw one of these flying quite slowly from the train near Settle in Yorkshire.
Not a clue what it was doing there, but Menwith Hill is nearby
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Maybe delete this post or move elsewhere. But just read an article on a speech by one of the survivors of this crash. 50 years back late last year
October 13, 1972.
It is one of the better-known survival stories, and will shortly be even better known to a new generation when the Neflix movie directed by J.A.Bayona is released later this year.
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@canefan In the comments of the twitter feed there is a really useful explanatory article.
The feed @booboo posted is a simulation. The actual incident occurred before dawn and in heavy fog, but it seems all that prevented a disaster was the quick actions of the FedEx plane landing.
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Fed Ex says on approach for an instrument landing and is given the OK by Tower
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Swest plane says ready for takeoff (on same runway) and is cleared by tower who don't tell SW to get their skates on at this stage FedEx is 3 miles out
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FedEx questions whether they should be landing on runway a plane is taking off on and tower clears it to proceed
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Tower checks with SW that it is taking off. Important to note given conditions none of the three parties can see each other.
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SW says ready to roll now. This is almost a minute since they previously said they were ready and given the all clear. Tower should have cleared the for an immediate take-off but obviously assumed SW would not be fucking about as they said they were ready to roll
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FedEx pilot sees SW plane on tarmac and takes over does and emergency landing abort and tells SW to abort take off to stop it flying into the FedEx flightpath
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Tower finally realises what is happening and separates the two planes' paths
Article suggest this type of incident has long been predicted
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Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 - Wikipedia
‘As bad as it gets without body bags.’
