Charter Plane down- breaking news

On it's way to PAris from Egypt.

148 on board.

Bummer

 

Hardly breaking news, that happened at least 24 hours ago.

 

Bummer it may be, news it isn't. It was even in the late edition of this
morning's papers ffs.

 

Kiran <> spouted the following in

Oops, saw it on the news 24 ticker tape and thought it was up to the
minute.

I haven't been keeping up with the news for a couple of days.

 

going the other way actually.

well they were only French people.

 

Yeah but the wrong ones...

 

Do you mean it was heading southwards over the Red sea following take-off
or that the flight was from Paris to Egypt?

 

ITYM "Frogs" ;-))

 

Yes. It seems it tried to turn around.

No.

Lotta good all those cute little cards telling you how to put on your
lifejacket, and where the little whistle is, appeared to be.... I've
always assumed that if your jetliner comes down in the drink, you're
fucked. End of story.

 

Des

go back and look at the *original* post, look at my correction and then
come back and say you were incorrect in correcting me. And yes I did
bother to check the BBC site before posting my first E Mail.

 

(The Older Gentleman) spouted the
following in

Was that because the pilot knew it was going down and chose the drink as
the best option d'you think?

 

ITYF that on any reasonable definition of the word 'way', the plane was
on it's way *from* Egypyt. It's destination was Paris. to put it another
way 'Way' doesn't necessarily mean, 'on the shortest path between two
points'.

Also, I think your correction, far from clarifying the issue, introduced
ambiguity which caused Des, understandably IMO, to misread your meaning.

Being the cynic I am, I'd almost be tempted to think you'd done it on
purpose ;-)

 

tallbloke wrote

A little early to judge innit, or have they done the post-mortem?

 

I liked the bit in fight club where they changed the cards for ones
containing pictures of panicking people.

 

Who knows?

 

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LOL
Yep. Excellent.

 

steve auvache <> spouted the following in

They just said it was trying to turn back to the airport. That would
seem to indicate logically that it's normal flight path would take it
south over the red sea before it turned on it's way to Paris.

Plane was built in '93, pilot had 5000 hours experience.

Egypt get half it's income from tourism.

They have ruled out terrorism, on the basis that there was no break up
of the plane in the air, and blamed mechanical failure. Meself I don't
see how that rules out the possibility of sabotage.

 

tallbloke wrote

It is obvious it weren't sabotaged innit. FFS you said yourself that
the driver was pissed.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

I love all this absolutely pointless conjecture about plane crashes.

We shall all find out when they recover the black box. Which I
understand is a couple of hundred feet down in the clear warm waters of
the southern med.

 

steve auvache <> spouted the following in

Red sea ackshully.

Don't see how the black box would tell you whether the maechanical
failure was due to sabotage or not but there you go.

You'd wonder how much sense it would make to sabotage a french charter
plane tho'. After all, the french opposed the invasion of Iraq. They do
have their problems with the muslim community mind.