1time plane suffers engine failure

Albereth said:
Every airline that I have flown on has had some sort of delay somewhere. In my experience, the cheaper the airline the worse they treat you when there is a delay.

I have never flown 1Time. Or Mango.
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Yeah i'm sure they have delays also but i've flown with them alot & never encountered constant problems like i have when having to use SAA.
This weekend 2 of us flew back from Capetown to Durban for R735 (2 tickets R735 total - Mango) try find that "non special" price from SAA.
Try them! You don't get free food but you don't have to pay 3 times the price;)
 
Tun@ said:
Yeah i'm sure they have delays also but i've flown with them alot & never encountered constant problems like i have when having to use SAA.
This weekend 2 of us flew back from Capetown to Durban for R735 (2 tickets R735 total - Mango) try find that "non special" price from SAA.
Try them! You don't get free food but you don't have to pay 3 times the price;)
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Big difference depending on who pays for the ticket. I prefer SAA for business because I have greater flexibility in when I want to fly. If I am paying, then price determines when I will fly.
 
All was going well until one of the flight attendants, Abba, started to panic and screamed at everybody that we only had 90 seconds to get off the plane and that the plane was on fire.
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Troll.
 
If you look at the photo's on News24 the plane is standing in a taxi way next to other planes, so they did not bail on the runway.
What is also intersting to note is all the people standing around with thier shoes on and with laptop bags.
According to regulations you have to remove your shoes before going down the slide and you have to leava all personal items in the plane.
No wonder it took so long for them to leave the plane.

On another note, I have noticed that OR is full of birds these days flying very low over the runway, WTH is up with that?
 
wetkit said:
On another note, I have noticed that OR is full of birds these days flying very low over the runway, WTH is up with that?
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They just landed from Europe :D

You know the whole winter/summer migration thing...
 
ponder said:
They just landed from Europe :D

You know the whole winter/summer migration thing...
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Shame man. Poor birdies! :-( Hope this one at least got his spring pomp before being ingested by a Turbo fan and turned into mossie mince! :-(

I watched a program on one of the docie channels where they showed the design and testing phases of Turbo fan engines. I think the particular engine in question was one of the RR Trent engines. They had it mounted on a test bed and then they started shooting all kinds of things into it while the engine was full throttle. Among the things that were being shot was frozen chickens, one after the other, big chunks of ice and streams of water fired by a couple of fire hoses! They filmed the whole thing with high speeds cams to see how the blades etc recovers from the impacts. The engine just kept on going no matter what they put in there. It was flippen cool! :-)

That is one of the reasons why I say that 1Time should start at looking at upgrading their fleet to modern air craft. I am not saying those planes are inherantly unsafe due to their age. They have a proven track record for sure. But Turbo fans have come a long long way since then when it comes to fuel economy and safety standards being incorporated into these new engines. Kulula upgraded their fleet...why not 1Time?
 
alf101 said:
In aviation, a 50 year old plane is considered brand new.
I'd rather fly a 1960's Cessna than a 2008 Jabiru.
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No no no.....If it does not have jet propulsion, then it aint airworthy in my eyes. I flew in a little prop plane once and nearly went into a catatonic state afterwards! lol

Have you guys heard of the planned Comac 919 airliner planned by the Chinese? How many of you would feel safe flying in one of those?
 
ScrnScrm said:
Storm in a teacup. I actually know the crew on that particular flight VERY well and they did everything by the book. I wouldn't trust a member of the public's perception on air safety, because quite frankly, they dont have a clue how things work...
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Neither would I trust an airline who tries to minimize the damage to their financial bottom-line by releasing a press statement downplaying the incident .

Tun@ said:
Nothing wrong with flying 1Time - they get us places for half what we'd normally be paying if business had of been left to the monopolies........
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So you'd risk dying just for a discount ?
 
Oh, please. Melodramatic much?

blunomore said:
Neither would I trust an airline who tries to minimize the damage to their financial bottom-line by releasing a press statement downplaying the incident .
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Well, best you not fly again, seeing that this is exactly the course of action that any airline in operation anywhere would take so as to protect their interests as a business.
So you'd risk dying just for a discount ?
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No bigger risk than taking a shower - you might slip, you know.

This isn't even a storm in a teacup; a light drizzle, if anything.
 
enigma243 said:
Oh, please. Melodramatic much?


Well, best you not fly again, seeing that this is exactly the course of action that any airline in operation anywhere would take so as to protect their interests as a business.

No bigger risk than taking a shower - you might slip, you know.

This isn't even a storm in a teacup; a light drizzle, if anything.
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I am not interested in the company's financial bottom line, chop. I am interested in getting to the destination safe.

You are seriously deluded if you think it is a good idea to keep on flying on a particular airline if you know of repeated incidents of technical and other problems.
 
blunomore said:
I am not interested in the company's financial bottom line, chop. I am interested in getting to the destination safe.

You are seriously deluded if you think it is a good idea to keep on flying on a particular airline if you know of repeated incidents of technical and other problems.
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Chop? Shame... always the intellectually deficient that resort to name-calling so quickly... :rolleyes: Planes are complex machines. Sometimes, things go wrong with complex machines. When their planes start tumbling to Earth in scorching fireballs I'll start worrying; until then this is just another sensationalist report by the media in the interest of selling a couple more papers. But then I suppose it stands to reason that it would get the type of people who go into a tizz over Hollywood make-ups and break-ups into a flurry.
 
Cool down, all, we don't know why this happened as yet.

If it was due to a poorly maintained old engine that is one thing.

If it was due to a bird strike that could have happened to anyone, then it is quite another.

In my view the crew acted correctly, if you have some fuddy-duddies taking their time getting off, then they need a kick in the pants !
 
enigma243 said:
Chop? Shame... always the intellectually deficient that resort to name-calling so quickly... :rolleyes: Planes are complex machines. Sometimes, things go wrong with complex machines. When their planes start tumbling to Earth in scorching fireballs I'll start worrying; until then this is just another sensationalist report by the media in the interest of selling a couple more papers. But then I suppose it stands to reason that it would get the type of people who go into a tizz over Hollywood make-ups and break-ups into a flurry.
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Shame, is that your best 'low blow'? Poor effort.

You keep on flying 1Time. Bon voyage ;)
 
blunomore said:
Shame, is that your best 'low blow'? Poor effort.
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Well, no. I could call you a sanctimonious, gleeking, ill-brained canker-blossom but faced with being called, so imaginatively, a "chop" I hardly thought it necessary.

You keep on flying 1Time. Bon voyage ;)
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When I need to, I will. As should you - you could keep yourself in steady supply of People magazines with the money you'd save.
 
blunomore said:
You keep on flying 1Time. Bon voyage ;)
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Blu the chances of a bird flying into an engine is just as high whatever airline one chooses to fly.
People that don't like flying cheaper airlines are in my opinion akin to people that only shop at Woolworth's & good luck ,everyone's entitled to make there own choice.
 
enigma243 said:
Well, no. I could call you a sanctimonious, gleeking, ill-brained canker-blossom but faced with being called, so imaginatively, a "chop" I hardly thought it necessary.



When I need to, I will. As should you - you could keep yourself in steady supply of People magazines with the money you'd save.
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Yada yada yada
 
Tun@ said:
Blu the chances of a bird flying into an engine is just as high whatever airline one chooses to fly.
People that don't like flying cheaper airlines are in my opinion akin to people that only shop at Woolworth's & good luck ,everyone's entitled to make there own choice.
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You miss the point.

Nothing wrong in flying cheap, but if you know that an airline has had a number of technical issues, you think twice.
 
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