Breaking news:Yemenia says 153 people on board crashed plane

If you look back in history, you will see it happens a lot that air incidents occur in groups - 2 or even 3 in close succession.

I find that creepy. Very odd indeed.
 
blunomore said:
If you look back in history, you will see it happens a lot that air incidents occur in groups - 2 or even 3 in close succession.

I find that creepy. Very odd indeed.
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I find most things happen in 3s. Very, very, very strange.
 
its one of the older versions of airbus (Airbus A310-324 Pratt & Whitney PW4152 wich was produced in 1987)if you compare it with a A330-203 year 2002 engine GE CF6-80E1A3 . . .not like the A330 that is NextGeneration(Fly by wire , glass cockpit)
 
Some good news is that a survivor has been found.

Sanaa - A survivor has been found at the site where a Yemeni passenger plane crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros on Tuesday, a Yemenia airline official said.

"A survivor of the accident has been found," senior Yemenia official Mohammad al-Sumairi told AFP. "Three bodies have been recovered."

The Airbus plane crashed in stormy weather as it was approaching Comoros en route from Yemen, officials said.

- AFP
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Survivor found
 
Airbus will be nipping round about now. Especially if they find the vertical fin floating intact...again.
 
blunomore said:
What does that imply, flanders?
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Well, in hindsight it looks as though this time it was a A-310 and not the A-330 (Air France type) so my previous post is probably nullified because to my knowledge, the A-310 uses more conventional aluminium construction (I could well be wrong about this though). I was referring to the composite materials used in the A-330. There has been increased suspicion raised about the integrity of the composite material contruction methods used in the the latest generation of AB as was pointed out in the American Airlines crash in NY where the vertical fin sheared off due to excessive pilot input.

Really what I was getting at was that the ominous set of images of the intact tail section of AF's A-330 started to raise some red flags. Either way, I'm just saying this is a bad time for Airbus (not that it is in fact a design flaw).

We know far too little about the Air France crash and practically nothing about this one to know anything yet. Let's just hope they get something positive in terms of future safety from these accidents.
 
And then there is the worrying claim of poor maintance by the owners of the aircraft. As well as the alleged protests about how the airline treated it's passengers as cattle or self-loading cargo. These claims suggest that the airline was trying to cut costs in a tight financial environment and maybe cut to close to the bone.
 
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