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One flight attendant put a scared elementary schoolboy on her back and slid down a slide, said Lee, in the first comments by a crew member since the crash of the Boeing 777. A pilot helped another injured flight attendant off the plane after the passengers escaped. Lee herself worked to put out fires and usher passengers to safety despite a broken tailbone that kept her standing throughout a news briefing with mostly South Korean reporters at a San Francisco hotel
Witness video.
Raw Video Fred Hayes Video of Asiana Flight 214 Crash on CNN - YouTube
It looks like the aircraft actually did a partial cartwheel during the crash. If thats the case its amazing anyone survived at all.
CNN needs to teach their animators how to recognize counter-clockwise motion as opposed to the clockwise motion they show in their most recent animation. The real time tape clearly shows the fuselage spinning counter-clockwise with the right wing lifting first into the air, followed by the rear of the fuselage. The nose appears to maintain contact with the ground. The fuselage spins completely around 360 degrees plus a little more to end up where it did.
The pilot did not know how to land the plane. The End.
I heard that the pilot of the plane was as qualified to fly a 777 as putting someone in a position of power who has never worked a day in his life.
I heard that the pilot of the plane was as qualified to fly a 777 as putting someone in a position of power who has never worked a day in his life.
Just some things to keep in mind next time you decide to put yourself inside a sleek metal tube that'll hurtle you along at 500mph, 6 or 7 miles above terra firma.
Just some things to keep in mind next time you decide to put yourself inside a sleek metal tube that'll hurtle you along at 500mph, 6 or 7 miles above terra firma.
Something else to keep in mind:
The National Safety Council compiled an odds-of-dying table for 2008, which further illustrates the relative risks of flying and driving safety. It calculated the odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident to be 1 in 98 for a lifetime. For air and space transport (including air taxis and private flights), the odds were 1 in 7,178 for a lifetime, according to the table.
Just some things to keep in mind next time you decide to put yourself inside a sleek metal tube that'll hurtle you along at 500mph, 6 or 7 miles above terra firma.
Something else to keep in mind:
The National Safety Council compiled an odds-of-dying table for 2008, which further illustrates the relative risks of flying and driving safety. It calculated the odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident to be 1 in 98 for a lifetime. For air and space transport (including air taxis and private flights), the odds were 1 in 7,178 for a lifetime, according to the table.
Amen. I once read a statistic comparing airplane fatalities to fatalities people suffer in their own bathrooms every year. Though I can't recall the numbers now it wasn't even close. Stepping into the bathroom was far more potentially fatal than getting onto an airplane. But for some air travel is still a phobia and that's too bad IMO.
This is looking more and more like pilot error. Ouch.
This is looking more and more like pilot error. Ouch.
I think company error can be considered as well. I heard on TV that Asiana pilots are not required to land one of those birds before it is full of passengers. They can do first landing in it with a loaded plane. I think he saw his error and was trying to pull up, but when he did the tail hit and knocked it off.
There was a spot on TV, CNN maybe, that talked of the social system in that country. The stewardess obeyed his order not to evacuate when she knew he was wrong giving it. That was in deference to him and his class difference. Apparently at one time they hired only people who were from countries where deference to age and class is not such a big deal. Looks like they have backslidden. No pun intended.
I would have to think the tanks had to be close to being depleted after 10 hours of flight time. I would think that would have kept the fire from being as severe.
