Charter Plane down- breaking news

Roll on, go under surely.

 

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The water was too shallow, it'd hardly got out of the harbour.
The first mate had been trying to get the hydraulics working with a
sledghammer one time too many and the Cap'n had been threatened by his
new masters to sail on time no matter what.

A classic case of what happens in take over mania economies.

 

Currently doing a job of work round Greece, I heard.

 

I remember it happening. Awful bloody thing to happen.

 

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It didn't just happen. There were causes. There should have been corporate
manslaughter charges IMO.

 

I hope they got around to fitting the saftey interlocks on the bow doors
that th Cap'n requested *weeks* before the disaster.

 

....and later the same year, I was on a ferry, when the doors opened,
and I rode the bike up to the front of the ramp, to be confronted by
the delights of Calais' outer harbour. We were still ten minutes from
berthing. Quite impressed, I was.
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Heh, ok on calm water I guess.

 

Do up a 'Wing version of this, job's a goodun:

http://www.sambarcroft.com/pages/Livio/livio.htm

 

I hate the way that during the safety drill they announce "in the
event that we have to land on water"... No! Look you feckin' retarded
feckstick, ooooh! where's my cluebyfour? The clues are to be found in
the words "land" and "water", and in my book that's called "ditching"


ZK

 

I thought it got flogged to the Philippines. Somebody bought it, that's
for sure.

 

My ex-boss bought a recovered, rebuilt transit van which had sunk with
the boat.

 

In the paper it says that someone on the plane

was making a phone call....end of investigation.

 

Sounds like that one. They had a couple blow out in the end?

 

I was in the Chaucer Hospital on the out skirts of Canterbury getting my
MZ-ed ankle fixed when it happened. The Captain was put in the next
room. There were two armed police outside his door and two outside the
window. As there were also armed police at the entrance to the hospital
I then assumed it was to keep people out rather than to keep him in.

 

I'm assuming this is a joke.

 

Ben Blaney said...

My ex Bro-in-law was the chief electrical tech on board the Herald. My
nephew was born the day it went down, so Alan swopped shifts with
another chap to be with my sister during the birth. The other chap
drowned. That really screwed Alan up for many years afterwards.

 

Feck. Still, he should look on the bright side eh?

The same thing happened with the plane. One of the crew members had been
called in on her day off...

 

Sounds like a French investigation; Listen to all the facts, ignore the
witnesses and then make it up.

 

No flying surface controls *at all*. Nothing. Failure of *all three*
hydraulic systems (main and both back-ups) when the tail-mounted engine
suffered a rotor burst and the fragments chopped through all the
hydraulic lines.

By amazing good fortune the pilot had actually practiced on a simulator
with total hydrulic failure, despite being told such a thing was, to all
intents and purposes, impossible, and they had another qualified pilot
dead-heading on board as well.

It didn't belly-land, as they had the undercarriage down but it touched
down at about 250 knots and went tits-up. A lot of people killed but
even more survivied.

An utterly incredible feat of airmanship IMHO.