Off Topic Brazilian Football team plane crashed

Loan them some of our kids. Help their team out and give our kids some experience in a top league.

 

Good grief, so he ran it out of tit?

What an idiot

That makes it even more tragic, as it was completely avoidable, and purely down to human error.

 

If true, not sure you can even call it human error. More human incompetence!

 

I do not know about planes or aviation in general, but I know a pilot. I think the fuel indicator tells them how many flight hours the fuel
in the tank can fly. They also allow for more flight hours in case of flight diversion The pilot and co-pilot committed suicide and took innocent
people with them.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38231774

 

Excuse my ignorance but is it the job of the pilot to make sure plane has adequate fuel? assuming it's not a long haul flight in which case it would be.

Plane should be flight worthy and fueled before pilot error comes into it.

His job is to get it from a to b safely. are other people not responsible for the rest?

 

Looks like the pilot was told that the flight is at the maximum distance of the fuel and that he should stop and refuel but he decided not to.

 

A Bolivian official, Celia Castedo, says she warned Mr Quiroga before departure that the long flight between southern Bolivia and Medellin was at the limit of the plane's maximum range.
She has now sought asylum in Brazil, saying she is being persecuted.

 

Cheers luv.

In which case he's a cock.

Never take chances with your own life that alone being responsible for others!!

 

The official who told him is on the run trying to get into Brazil after death threats.

 

If the fuel in the plane can fly for three hours, and the distance is also four hours flying time, it's wise
that the plane have fuel that can last six hours for emergency reasons. The company may have some
economic reasons not to have enough fuel like cash flow problems.

 

Thats negligence on the companies part dribs.

Bollocks to the cash flow argument, holds no weight in a legal argument.

if was the case, lawyers would just argue, if not safe or adequately fueled for contingency plans, should not have taken job.

 

A lot of things are going on in some comapnies that external people can not know, and employees are too scared to mention it. Agree with you that it's negligencen on the part of the company, there are some companies that are not going concern operating !

 

nothing worse than needless, senseless waste of life.

this could easily have never happened and it was not some imperceptible issue that caused a failure it was complete error or deliberate negligence.

 

Is it 100% certain that it was the pilot ignoring the fuel gauge?

 

its all hearsay til the black box stuff comes out.

 

Form what i hear about a lot of low cost airlines (i've been on wrong end of trips home where plane goes missing) they regularly declare emergencies to land if theres bad weather.

I remember being in dusseldorf i think and about 10mins before my plane was due to plane there was the mother of all down pours and thunder for about 15mins.

My plane went to cologne and we were bused to it for 1.5hours to get on and fly home.


I was told they declared an emergency fuel situation and forced a landing elsewhere rather than circle til the storm passed within 10mins.

you tell me... were they light on fuel or not prepared to burn the fuel? i dunno.

 

Budget airlines would like to cut costs wherever possible. British Airways and some other famous airlines take more precautions.
If they cannot fly due to some circumstances they are willing to make you comfortable by lodging you into an hotel, whereas
budget airline cannot do this I remember coming from US about five years ago, something went wrong with the gear system
of our plane. According to the pilot, the computer was playing up, the plane would not take off until it was sorted out, We were there
for about three hours, the airline being charged for parking.

 

Apparently the owner of the airline, which only has 3 small charter planes, with only 2 being airworthy, was given a licence to operate by the organisation that issues operating licences in the country concerned on the basis it was a reputable company. The person in charge of the organisation that issues the operating licences is the airline owners son.

 

Just think we should be all too aware of media manipulation to point blame elsewhere. Unlikely but still...