Fed Ex plane crash

[Colchester Kev]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7958367.stm

Horrible, but you cant help watching it a few times.



No Tom Hanks gags please.

[dousche]

i presume all the blonde t-shirts i keep reading about are shipped from a japanese supplier?

[thetank]

RIP

[I KNOW IT]

Absolutely horrendous
RIP

[paulhouk03]

thats terrible
RIP

[EvilPie]

Tragic accident.

Thankfully it was only a cargo plane so only 2 lives lost.

Looking at the accident this could just as easily have been a fully loaded passenger plane with the loss of hundreds.

Will be interesting to see the full investigation as to how it happened.

[tikay]

Yes, it's just dreadful. There is something about aeroplane crashes which brings out the ghoul in all of us, I think.

Everytime there is a 'Plane crash, or incident, I go to a Forum caled PPRuNe - "Professional Pilots Rumour Network". Flushy put me onto it a few years ago, & it's a wonderful place.

All the Media get their "stories" by going oto PPruNe. After the Heathrow 777 jobbie, the PPRuNe Forum nearly crashed - I think there were nearly 10,000 viewing it at one time, ditto the Hudson River splashdown..

And, the loss of live notwithstanding, the way the story unfolds on PPRuNe is like reading a thriller, it starts with "reports are coming in", then it gradually unfolds. You soon get to see who speaks with authority - the questions come from hacks & amateurs, & the answers from Pilots, AirCrew, & ATC-ers. For the Hudson "crash", they uploaded a software gizmo which tracked the Flight Path of all planes leaving JFK, & you could clearly see the Hudson 'plane flightpath, until, spookily, it suddenly disappeared. And they often have Cockpit tx to & from ATC, etc. It's riveting stuff. For geeks, that is.

For the Fex Ex Crash, the Thread is here.....

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/366990-cnn-reports-fedex-crash-tokyo.html

[I KNOW IT]

Yes, it's just dreadful. There is something about aeroplane crashes which brings out the ghoul in all of us, I think.

Everytime there is a 'Plane crash, or incident, I go to a Forum caled PPRuNe - "Professional Pilots Rumour Network". Flushy put me onto it a few years ago, & it's a wonderful place.

All the Media get their "stories" by going oto PPruNe. After the Heathrow 777 jobbie, the PPRuNe Forum nearly crashed - I think there were nearly 10,000 viewing it at one time, ditto the Hudson River splashdown..

And, the loss of live notwithstanding, the way the story unfolds on PPRuNe is like reading a thriller, it starts with "reports are coming in", then it gradually unfolds. You soon get to see who speaks with authority - the questions come from hacks & amateurs, & the answers from Pilots, AirCrew, & ATC-ers. For the Hudson "crash", they uploaded a software gizmo which tracked the Flight Path of all planes leaving JFK, & you could clearly see the Hudson 'plane flightpath, until, spookily, it suddenly disappeared. And they often have Cockpit tx to & from ATC, etc. It's riveting stuff. For geeks, that is.

For the Fex Ex Crash, the Thread is here.....

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/366990-cnn-reports-fedex-crash-tokyo.html

Thanks for the link. The posters certainly know their stuff

[lazaroonie]

i know a few guys (pilots) who fly for fedex out of Memphis. Flying cargo is definitely at the lower end of the glamour scale

Such a tragedy.

[Royal Flush]

PPRuNe is indeed the absolute nuts, before poker i was a regular poster on there back in the good old days of the 'wanabee' sub forum which was something else!

[cia260895]

On the flying subject,when my son goes on his next flying lesson with the ATC he has said he will get to do areobatics on his 2nd lesson WOW.

His aim is to get a pilots certificate (I think) after completeing the course what will this entitle him to do?

[TightEnd]

His aim is to get a pilots certificate (I think) after completeing the course what will this entitle him to do?

play poker online, stake a load of degens and wear Swiss polo tops

[cia260895]

His aim is to get a pilots certificate (I think) after completeing the course what will this entitle him to do?

play poker online, stake a load of degens and wear Swiss polo tops

Believe me I would love him to play poker he would crush the game IMO but ATM he just ain't interested more interested in w.o.w

dunno bouit the swiss polo tops though 

[EvilPie]

His aim is to get a pilots certificate (I think) after completeing the course what will this entitle him to do?

play poker online, stake a load of degens and wear Swiss polo tops

 

[Rooky9]

PPRuNe is indeed the absolute nuts, before poker i was a regular poster on there back in the good old days of the 'wanabee' sub forum which was something else!

God, I used to spend hours going through the wannabe section. Think I saw at least 3 versions of the CTC cadet scheme thing. Still didnt bloody make it!