Another Plane Crash!

Its because a plane crash is always news worthy that we here it. Its still the safest form of trainsport (ships 2nd and trains 3rd).

The real reason why we here of so many South African accidents the last few years is the massive uptake of flying by the public. Its inevitable that a percentage will crash.
 
I didn't look at it that way, you're right. If we had to report every car accident where people died, can you imagine what our newspapers would be like?!
I read somewhere that flying is still the safest means of transport out there.
 
For some reason, one often finds that plane accidents happen in numbers .... then there will be 'silence' for a while, with no incidents, and then a few incidents will happen in short succession again.

Most people here will call it coincidence.
 
I think I read there was even another one yesterday!

I think there is some stat that more people are killed each year by donkeys than by plane crashes but I still hate flying, it makes my skin crawl. :(
 
Wonder what our state is on engineers to repair and maintain these planes?

I have a bud who's a pilot and he told me it is shocking, most go overseas where they are paid well and looked after.
Pilots are also finding it hard to find work, especially helicopter pilots.
 
A small plane with at least 21 people on board chartered to international oil company ENI crashed after taking off from Pakistan’s Karachi airport on Friday, killing all on board, an aviation official said.

Pervez George, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority, said the aircraft crashed near a military ordnance depot at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport due to a technical fault soon after taking off.

He added it was en route to an oil field near Bhit Shah in Sindh province, some 190 km (118 miles) northeast of Karachi.

"When it took off, just after one minute, the pilot contacted the control tower saying that there was a fault in one of the engines. He was asked to return, but as it was turning back, it crashed," George told Reuters.

He said there were 19 passengers and two crew on board. At least 12 bodies have been recovered so far. Aviation officials said there was at least one foreigner on board.

"The plane has been destroyed," said Lt. Colonel Noor Agha, an army official supervising recovery operations. "The dead bodies are burnt beyond recognition. It could not be recognized whether they are men or women. We don’t know nationalities."

Civil aviation officials said the small aircraft was chartered by oil company ENI, which is based in Italy. No one from the company was responding to phone calls and the nationalities of those killed were not immediately available.
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Hemps said:
Wonder what our state is on engineers to repair and maintain these planes?

I have a bud who's a pilot and he told me it is shocking, most go overseas where they are paid well and looked after.
Pilots are also finding it hard to find work, especially helicopter pilots.
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Most major incidents are happening overseas and not in SA. Does that mean their state of maintenance is in disarray?
 
Does that mean their state of maintenance is in disarray?
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don't shoot the messenger, this is just what I hear regarding SA, my wife happenened to be on one of those small prop planes when it could not take off and they had to wait 2 hours for an engineer to be helicoptered in - this was PE.
 
I suppose smaller airports won't have the same amount of qualified maintenance crew as the major cities. The Johannesburg / Cape Town route is the 5th busiest in the world, so I'm sure they have the crew to handle the traffic involved as incidents are extremely rare.
 
Hemps said:
Wonder what our state is on engineers to repair and maintain these planes?

I have a bud who's a pilot and he told me it is shocking, most go overseas where they are paid well and looked after.
Pilots are also finding it hard to find work, especially helicopter pilots.
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Load of bollocks but heli pilots are in a market that's not as widely used as the fixed wing market.
 
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