Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we’re going to crash’

Read this last night - I thought it was a great article in these times of **** journalism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9231855/Air-France-Flight-447-Damn-it-were-going-to-crash.html

With the report into the tragedy of Air France 447 due next month, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all 228 onboard.

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This happened 2 years ago. Even in these days of ****e journalism, it's not really news.

 

The event itself and conclusions drawn from the event are not the same thing. With something as complex as an airplane crash, a helluva a lot of wreckage retrieval, reconstruction, investigation, theorising and simulation typically needs to be done to establish what really happened. This is news.

 

Thanks for saving me Squiggly.

 

Big metal contraption falls out of sky. Meh.

 

I'm nae reading all that pish.

Did it hit an iceberg or something?

 

It took them two years to find the BB, would have been a lot sooner if they'd found it before that

I have just read that article with interest, and given that I usually have an irrational fear of flying for the very reason that they may fall out of the sky, and given I am flying on Monday, I am now ****ting it.

 

One of the pilots got confused, pulled back on the controls and basically held it there til it stalled and they crashed.
The article's claiming that it's due to the new design of the controls as nobody else could tell what he was doing.

 

Is it an airbus? Can you even find that out, actually?

 

I heard it was the stewardesses sucking off the pilots which distracted them.

 

Probably...just by looking at the airline and googling their fleet info...

I am not going to be doing that, but am 95% sure it'll be a 737 from past experience...

 

You're not flying with Air France, are you?
They seem to be getting a hell of a lot of mentions in the comments to do with other crashes...

 

Nice knowing you pal.

 

Should we send flowers, or would you prefer a donation to your favourite charity?

 

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It's not irrational.

 

Tom Jones?

 

You have an irrational fear of Tom Jones? It's not unusual...

 

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Don't worry they give you a life jacket if the plane ****s up. I never really understood that TBH I can swim quite well but struggle to fly so I'd prefer a parachute

 

I would like both preferably.