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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: dcharlie on March 23, 2009, 03:53:39 AM

Title: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: dcharlie on March 23, 2009, 03:53:39 AM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7958367.stm

:O footage :O
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: duckman2000 on March 23, 2009, 04:06:00 AM: Saw this on the news a few hours ago. Wind. :(

Even more fucked up was the planecrash in Montana. 14 dead, 7 of which were children. But the most fucked up thing was this:

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/23/us/23crash.xlarge1.jpg)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23crash.html?_r=1&ref=us
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: BlueTsunami on March 23, 2009, 04:38:58 AM: The whole year has been jam packed with plane accidents. I'm sure this must be some sort of anomaly but it is fucking scary.
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: archie4208 on March 23, 2009, 07:47:28 AM: I'm flying to NC on March 31. I'm kinda scared. >:(
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Kara on March 23, 2009, 08:24:19 AM: Quote from: duckman2000 on March 23, 2009, 04:06:00 AM
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/03/23/us/23crash.xlarge1.jpg)
I've been playing too much Oblivion... this looked like an Oblivion gate at first. :'(
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Reb on March 23, 2009, 08:25:00 AM: Fuck, I fly twice every week, this is not good for my nerves...
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: T-Short on March 23, 2009, 09:11:23 AM: Saw the footage of this, another MD-11 flipping over, not good. Imagine standing in the Narita terminal looking out when that happened :(
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: T-Short on March 23, 2009, 09:20:55 AM: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1237766700 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1237766700)

This one shows the first touchdown as well, after the main gear touches down the nose goes down very fast, wonder what happened here. Looks very strange
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: T-Short on March 23, 2009, 09:55:22 AM: Looks like a very big rudder input early after initial touchdown. The MD-11 was criticized after its inception for its relatively poor crosswind performance due to the lenghtening of the DC-10 fuselage and the rear engine taking up rudder real estate on the vertical stab. Pilot may have been on the edge of the crosswind cert performance here so it could have been an overcompensation to get the three gears down as fast as possible :/
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: tiesto on March 23, 2009, 10:05:02 AM: Fuck and I'm flying tomorrow night. :-\
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: T-Short on March 23, 2009, 10:06:04 AM: statistically, the chance of an accident should be very low!
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: ch1nchilla on March 23, 2009, 10:51:29 AM: This sucks :(

Also, MD planes are the devil, I always feel unsafe on them for some reason. AND I HATE flying... Not even kidding we almost hit another plane when I was landing the other day. Flying = :( :( :(
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 23, 2009, 10:59:55 AM: Time to travel Acela! (http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/Hot_Deals_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1178294265854&ssid=224&WT.mc_t=Acela_LowerFares_A&WT.mc_n=ALF_hidh_c1a&WT.mc_r=90)
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Veidt on March 23, 2009, 11:09:06 AM: This is one messed up crash.
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Flannel Boy on March 23, 2009, 11:09:31 AM: Quote from: Kosma on March 23, 2009, 08:15:47 AM
Planes suck.

"You sitting in a chair--in the sky!
--Louis CK
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Kestastrophe on March 23, 2009, 12:48:09 PM: Looks like there was another crash in Montana

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123780073094712761.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123780073094712761.html)

I am absolutely terrified of flying :(. As someone else mentioned though, it is the statistically safest way to travel.
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: duckman2000 on March 23, 2009, 12:52:17 PM: Old news, but notice how it crashed into the fucking graveyard.

As for safety, the problem (or blessing?) is that it's pretty much a given that you're going to die real fast. Although, if the problem becomes apparent at high altitude, you'll have some time to ponder this concept.
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: Kestastrophe on March 23, 2009, 12:56:31 PM: omg, just search youtube for "almost plane crash"

[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDVq2gGgaA[/youtube]

:o :'(
Title: Re: FED Ex crash at Narita
Post by: NME on March 23, 2009, 01:01:15 PM: I think the closest I ever came to crashing in a plane was the return flight from my first trip in a commercial jet. As far as I remember we just hit some particularly rough turbulence, which made the plane drop quite a bit on several occasions. I remember enjoying the ride, as if it were a roller coaster, but as I think back I remember people gasping and a generally fearful atmosphere amongst the passengers.

I got off that flight not having any fear of flying. Then, between that day and the next time I flew, some five years later, I developed a distaste for flying. Sure, I'm afraid of flying, but not in a crippling way. I'll fly, I'll even choose flying over driving if given the option. But that doesn't mean I don't understand that I'm putting my life into someone else's hands. I know, driving statistically is more dangerous, blah blah, at least I have the illusion of control when I'm driving.

The weird thing is that when I was young, like between 4-6, I went up in a Cessna on a fairly regular basis. I mean, those have got to be the real death traps, right? But, ignorance is bliss.