This is exactly why I never want to get into an airplane!
Sure, some may say that it's more dangerous to be in a car, but those things just scare the crap out of me! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
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I have the same opinion about airplanes, chubz
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Car crash, you will more than likely live.
Plane crash, well that speaks for itself.
People always say that it is statistically safer to travel by airplane. My view is that I'd rather crash into something going 55 mph (or slower, hopefully) than fall from 35,000 feet going 600+ mph!
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People always say that it is statistically safer to travel by airplane. My view is that I'd rather crash into something going 55 mph (or slower, hopefully) than fall from 35,000 feet going 600+ mph!
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LMAO, amen brother! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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They won't admit it yet, maybe never but it looks like the plane took the wrong runway-
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Based upon my carefull review of Bomardier CRJ-100 regional jet specifications, and having seen a live streaming video feed from a Lexington, Kentucky television station, as well as detailed satellite composite imagery of the Bluegrass Airport, it seems certain and is my assessment that Comair Flight 5191 executed its takeoff from the incorrect runway.
Facts I cite in making this assessment are as follows:
The ground impact markings and final site of the aircraft on the ground are consistent with an east to west departure from Runway 26/8.
Comair Flight 5191 impacted the ground a very short distance and in a straight line from the end of Runway 26/8, which on its western end is designated as runway 8 and is the nearest point to the impact site.
The length of this runway, which appears to be undergoing improvements of its surface, is approximately 3500 feet.
The primary runway at Bluegrass Airport, Runway 22/4, is 7,000 feet in length.
This Comair Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jet aircraft requires a minimum takeoff distance of 5,800 feet at the maximum takeoff weight of 51,000 lbs.
[/ QUOTE ] PS- can anybody remember who busted the Air Traffic Controllers Union that takes care of safety issues like this? We should have shut the country down then.
Talk about survivors guilt. 50 people on the plane and 1 survives. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
"There he goes, one of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
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