The aircraft that ditched in the Hudson river with all passengers surviving was an Airbus A320. The fuselage stayed intact after sustaining 7 times the impact stress it was designed for. I have flown in lots Boeings, Lockheeds, Douglas and Airbus craft. I always am impressed with the Airbus planes smoothness, quiet and power.
Airbus 330 = ANOTHER fire near air crash in Guam! Bad planes!
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hamsterbait
If a whole batch of parts are faulty for the same make of plane and that batch is used on an order of them, it is likely the parts can fail within days of each other, making it look like a pattern.
I bought a DVD recorder about the same time as three other families I know. They all broke down within a few weeks of each other, with the same fault. I reckon many firms design parts with a built in failure rate so we have to keep buying the equipment. Too bad these parts are also used in airplanes electronics.
Also have you ever met the kinds of geeks that write the control software for these things? One of my friends is a SW engineer, and when he found out him and his girlfriend were flying to Singapore on one of these, he went white, and nearly vomited with fear!!
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besty
Witness007 - if AF447 hadn't fallen out the sky you wouldn't have made any prediction and we wouldn't have heard about the subsequent cockpit fire
Admit it - you've been to the WTS 'you too can be a prophet' school of predictions
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Witness 007
Evidence shows the France Airbus blew up midair.....no time to even call a "mayday."
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hamsterbait
Actually any type of chance event happens more often in clusters than across an even distribution. (Look at how the building blocks of life came about "The Ancestors Tale")
Just tossing a coin for instance.
It is exactly equal chance that either heads or tails will fall. But we dont see an even distribution usually.
You get a whole bunch of heads. then a few tails then a few tails, then a couple of heads then a bunch of tails.
It would be more spooky to get heads tails heads tails heads tails etc, or just heads heads heads etc.
Accidents as chance events show the same tendency to cluster. It is nothing spooky its just that the events are not planned in line with probability.
Look at the Lottery draws. The numbers tend to be in clusters, very rarely do you see an absolutely even distribution, which you should reasonably expect when the odds of drawing ANY number is the same as for all the others too.
Humans have a need to predict their safety and know where food is likely to be, so are programmed to see patterns in everyday life. These were in our genes long before airplanes, card games and the lottery, but the instinct still kicks in.
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daniel-p
If the same proportion of money that went into airplane safety went into auto safety, there'd be a lot fewer auto deaths per year (which is around 30-40,000 per year in US alone).
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JeffT
W007 I would suggest you crawl under your bed and stay there. You'll be safe until you die. $hit happens, deal with it.
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besty
I have a pet theory that replacing steering wheel airbags with a 4 inch spike would improve safety. :-) just a thought....
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