Just seen that an Air India flight bound for London Gatwick has crashed and exploded in Ahmedabad, with 242 passengers onboard It was only 650ft up in the air when the tower lost touch with the cockpit, then came down in a residential area and exploded
Yep awful. Worst time to crash (if there is ever a good time) as full of fuel and over residential area.
It is, but do they not have the majority of planes in the air? What I mean is if there are 50% Boeing and no more than 15-20% others, then if there is a crash it is more likely to be one. Pure guesswork though by me.
Airbus have a higher market share I believe. This one is likely to be human error as the dreamliner has a good safety record - the big problem boeing had was the other crashes (737-max i think) were caused by planes/software and pilots were helpless to save the aircraft.
Maybe, I don't know how many Airbus aircraft there are in comparison. But I will admit to being reassured that my flight to the US every year is on an Airbus. I just know I wouldn't relax nearly as much on a Boeing, as daft as that may sound. Air travel is statistically one of the safest modes of travel, particularly from the UK and US. But it's quite difficult to be aware of that when serious incidents involving Boeing aircraft are happening at the rate they have been over the last 5 or 6 years. Having said that, this a different type of aircraft from the infamous Boeing 737 Max and we have no idea at this stage what went wrong.
Some expert on the radio thinks it might be because they started their takeoff too short of where they should have. Not up to speed ,so engines stalled, they only got 625 up
Apparently there is at least one survivor who was on board the plane. How on earth he survived being sat in row 11 God only knows.
Some of the media are speculating that this could spell the end for Boeing. Boeing bought up Curtiss in the 1940s, the latter having previously bought the Wright Brothers company. Glenn Curtiss was the inventor of the airilon
