Aviation

[duchessmary]

LOL. It would never get off the ground.

[Miho]

Video from inside the plane found. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...FB_mirror_main

[Upset]

Video from inside the plane found. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...FB_mirror_main

Not sure I'd be thinking of my cell phone at a moment like that.

Maybe to get on Facebook one more time.

"We're all gonna die! OMG! WTF! LOL!"

[StewartGilliganGriffin]

Video from inside the plane found. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...FB_mirror_main

Allegedly. I'd have to see it or have someone official say the video exists before I'd believe it.

[Rosebud666]

German Television just broke into its program with a bulletin that the flight data recorder from the Germanwings crash has been found.

[cleanskull]

I must have misread the earlier article I spoke of. I don't know how much more revealing info will be on it. We know what happened.

[Upset]

Preliminary analysis of the flight data recorder indicates that Lubitz sped the descent up. Not too surprising I guess.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/europe...ain/index.html

[Jerseysucks]

If this jerk off wanted to kill himself he could have just shot himself, hung himself with his belt, rented a plane and crashed himself taking out a number of passengers including children is not suicide it's murdering 149 people a few of which he knew. (The crew and pilot) this was the act of a coward. Rest in Hell you sick fuck.

[neilmpenny]

I read that so far 48 mobile phones have been recovered.

[Cynful]

Any more word on whether a video of the last moments of the Germanwings flight really exists? I would LOVE to know! I can see where the phones may have been damaged, but SIM cards can survive a lot of pounding.

[Rosebud666]

Any more word on whether a video of the last moments of the Germanwings flight really exists? I would LOVE to know! I can see where the phones may have been damaged, but SIM cards can survive a lot of pounding.

Have you tried CNN (Cartoon News Network)? I'm certain that they have a "highly accurate" animated "reenactment" by now - created by the same crack team that gave us the "Money for Nothing" video.

The news here appears to have finally moved on. So it looks like it's all over until the lawsuits start flying.

[Mcafgr]

According to CNN....pilot and co-pilot beat the shite out of each other in the cockpit 10 minutes before liftoff. Air India Flight.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/vide...p?ocid=U305DHP

[neilmpenny]

Mystery of the giant arrows scattered across the States: Travellers bemused by 70ft relics from a bygone age of American air travel

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...#ixzz3XNyRvAcL

[findadeathaddict]

Mystery of the giant arrows scattered across the States: Travellers bemused by 70ft relics from a bygone age of American air travel

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...#ixzz3XNyRvAcL

Really cool article. Thanks.

[duchessmary]

Wow. Thanks for sharing, Neil.

[cleanskull]

Mystery of the giant arrows scattered across the States: Travellers bemused by 70ft relics from a bygone age of American air travel

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...#ixzz3XNyRvAcL

Nice find Neil, you know IFR sometimes means I Follow Roads.

[neilmpenny]

Clean, I always thought they followed the rail tracks.

[cleanskull]

At one time it probably was. Flying at night over the States is like an illuminated map.

[Aviatrix]

Mystery of the giant arrows scattered across the States: Travellers bemused by 70ft relics from a bygone age of American air travel

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...#ixzz3XNyRvAcL

Oh, fantastic article, Neil! Thank you.

[Aviatrix]

Nice find Neil, you know IFR sometimes means I Follow Roads.

Dad told me it meant "I Follow Rivers" (he and my grandfather had float planes).

[cleanskull]

Dad told me it meant "I Follow Rivers" (he and my grandfather had float planes).

I have always wanted to fly in a floater. I would like to see how terrified I would get as we landed back on the water.

Now look what these rascal's have built. This will def ramp up the tension in that area.

http://news.yahoo.com/china-building...095359080.html

[Cynful]

A 400M customized Boeing 747... wowza:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ocial-facebook

[Rosebud666]

Dad told me it meant "I Follow Rivers" (he and my grandfather had float planes).

Hmmm . . . I always thought IFR stood for "I Fart on Republicans".

Hey by the way, did you hear that they landed a gynecologist on the Capitol lawn, Seth?

I think you mean "gyrocopter" Rosebud.

Naw Seth, I'm pretty sure it was a gynecologist.

[neilmpenny]

Great find Cyn. Oh to have so much money lol.

[Rosebud666]

A 400M customized Boeing 747... wowza:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ocial-facebook

If I ever get a recording contract, that baby is mine - and I'm gonna hire John Travolta to fly it!

Actually, I think would have to settle for a used VW microbus and renewing my driver's license.

[Cynful]

Great find Cyn. Oh to have so much money lol.

Unbelievable isn't it? Holy God.

[cleanskull]

Yeah, I could hang out in something like that.

[Rosebud666]

Unbelievable isn't it? Holy God.

Who for the love of God makes enough money to buy something like that?

The Grateful Dead needed one of those. They could have given in-flight concerts. No waiting for tickets in the parking lot - and everybody gets high.

[duchessmary]

I'm thinking a Gulf States royal. OMG!!!

[neilmpenny]

I'd rather buy a couple of acres of land by the sea and build a custom house to my design.

[Maxster]

Who for the love of God makes enough money to buy something like that?

The tech oligarchs of California? Larry Ellison, for example, has a fortune estimated at $56 billion.

[Rosebud666]

I'd rather buy a couple of acres of land by the sea and build a custom house to my design.

Oh come on Neil - think big! For the price of that plane, you could probably start your own minor island nation. I for one would love to live in Neilland. Can I be your Minister of Culture and maybe write the national anthem?

[neilmpenny]

Volunteer investigator says wreckage lying in the Bay of Bengal needs to be explored, could be MH370

Andre Milne and his team say a wreckage currently lying in the Bay of Bengal in between Malaysia and India needs to be investigated to rule out whether or not it is the missing plane.

Milne, who works in military aviation technology, hopes to crowdfund a project with supporters pledging donations on a website.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel...-1227318736789

[Cynful]

The new Four Seasons private jet:

https://www.facebook.com/FourSeasons

[Aviatrix]

I hope those who are building these ultra-jets have planned restraint systems in place.

One killed and over 100 injured in clear air turbulence incident over Pacific.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ed-spokeswoman

Can you imagine that mess at mealtime?!

[Cynful]

I hope those who are building these ultra-jets have planned restraint systems in place.

One killed and over 100 injured in clear air turbulence incident over Pacific.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ed-spokeswoman

Can you imagine that mess at mealtime?!

Wow... unbelievable... those folks must have been freaking out. Hmmmm, why does Narita, Japan sound SO familiar?

[Rosebud666]

I hope those who are building these ultra-jets have planned restraint systems in place.

One killed and over 100 injured in clear air turbulence incident over Pacific.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ed-spokeswoman

Can you imagine that mess at mealtime?!

Just one more reason why MY air yacht is going to feature a detachable "panic room" with a water bed and its own emergency parachute system. Maybe I can't build an entire aircraft using black box materials and engineering, but a master bedroom made of the stuff should still be light enough to get off the ground.

[Aviatrix]

Wow... unbelievable... those folks must have been freaking out. Hmmmm, why does Narita, Japan sound SO familiar?

Muahahaha!!! You are trouble...


Rosebud, that would be genius!

[Rosebud666]

Muahahaha!!! You are trouble...


Rosebud, that would be genius!

The waterbed is for a quick shag just in case the chutes fail to deploy. Then they can say "at least he died doing the one he loved."

Of course the master bedroom decor will be in 50 shades of gray.

[cindyt]

This happened in Metro Atlanta.

DeKalb Co, GA,Four people who died when their small plane crashed Friday morning on the eastbound lanes of Interstate-285 told passengers of another flight they were headed to a college graduation.


The victims, three men and one woman, were reportedly headed to a graduation at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. The men were confirmed by Channel 2 Action News as Christopher, Greg and Phillip Byrd. The woman was identified as Jackie Kulzer, the fiancée of Christopher Byrd.



http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breakin...n-i-285/nmCHx/

[PiggyTx]

ugh worst nightmare. alot of my friends keep trying to talk me into flying. "it's safer than driving", "do you know how many flights there are a day?".
i know ALL that. i still get diarrhea if i know i have to fly.

[cindyt]

I have never flown and I don't intend too, unless circumstances require it. It's a matter of being scared pooless.

[Buttercup]

It would take a lot of pills, alcohol and a bag of Depends to get me back on a plane. I haven't flown since 1994.

[cindyt]

Sissy said they were saying the pilot radioed they were going down, so all of them knew they were fixing to crash and burn. ((((Shudder))))

[Aviatrix]

It would take a lot of pills, alcohol and a bag of Depends to get me back on a plane. I haven't flown since 1994.

The alcohol and drugs might kill you first though. You won't have to worry about the plane then.

From my stats, 3000 are killed in car crashes every day. No one is freaking about getting into cars.
http://www.inquisitr.com/16429/crash...ly/#image_load

Someone made Flying 101 into a livery. An air carrier with a sense of humor!
http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/kulula.asp

[Rosebud666]

It would take a lot of pills, alcohol and a bag of Depends to get me back on a plane. I haven't flown since 1994.

Naw . . . they just need to legalize weed on international flights.

[Aviatrix]

Let's just put this out there for funsies:
http://now.snopes.com/2015/05/17/airliner-fly-sideways/

Dude says that he's capable of controlling various systems (such as the in-flight entertainment system) and by hacking this system he could make the airline fly sideways, O2 masks activate. I read about this and immediately thought of this happening to MH370 by someone with nefarious intent ready to prove something to the world.

[cindyt]

People are nuts.

[cindyt]

TransAsia plane crashes across a Taipei highway and then falls into a river.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015...eo.tvbs-taiwan

[Shellie]

TransAsia plane crashes across a Taipei highway and then falls into a river.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015...eo.tvbs-taiwan

That was brutal. I don't know how more weren't killed when it happened.