That model of plane had never crashed before.

I recently booked it purposefully for that reason.

What will be will be.

Air india

Air India was losing money for the Indian government so they sold it to a private company a couple of years ago. They tried to save money and make the airline profitable. What could go wrong?

Anonymous wrote:Yet another crash in a Boeing aircraft. After the huge scandal and scary cost cutting corners exposed recently, how many here are still willing to risk their lives on an American made plane?

I am. Because, statistics.

While the Air India crash is tragic- I know I’m stating the obvious here, why are so many saying they will never fly Boeing jets? There are essentially two jumbo jet manufacturers- Boeing and Airbus. Also, before jumping all over Boeing, let’s wait for the investigations and some facts to come out. Finally, I’m not a Boring defender/fanboy, they deserved every bit of criticism and scorn for their bad/lazy engineering and design of the 737 Max aircraft.

In my college grad school software safety class, Airbus flight control software was a case study in what not to do. No doubt it is better now than originally, but it was blamed for at least 2 Airbus crashes.

Anonymous wrote:Yet another crash in a Boeing aircraft. After the huge scandal and scary cost cutting corners exposed recently, how many here are still willing to risk their lives on an American made plane?

When the investigation is all done, I believe we will learn that this was sabotage.

Anonymous wrote:You can’t take off without flaps and slats deployed for take off on this plane. The warnings would be blaring in your face.

BUT, it’s possible to retract the flaps/slats when you meant to retract the landing gear. It would be even more tragic if this was caused by someone pulling the wrong lever.

How much about airplane control surface operations did you know 48 hours ago?

You can’t take off without flaps and slats deployed for take off on this plane. The warnings would be blaring in your face.

BUT, it’s possible to retract the flaps/slats when you meant to retract the landing gear. It would be even more tragic if this was caused by someone pulling the wrong lever.

I have no love for Boeing, but (a) air travel generally is incredibly safe, and (b) shall I share a nice long list of mechanical failures that happened on airbuses, just for balance?

Any plane can crash. But it's very unlikely.

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Anonymous wrote:This almost certainly will end up being pilot error and have nothing to do with Boeing.

This is my assumption as well. But it may be months to a year before we know. NTSB will probably help.

The reasonable pilots I've seen analyzing this say that a lot of the "hypotheses" are either completely dismissible based on the video/basic facts (plane will lock if flaps are wrong from the get go, and if you override it and try anyway it will honk and siren at you, so it's extremely unlikely). They say pilot error seems more likely and it takes a lot for a pilot to say that.

I don’t care what kind of plane I’m on. I rarely even notice what it is. I will never stop flying. Being able to travel is worth the “risk”. If a plane crash is the way I go out so be it. We all have to go sometime.

I still out of DCA regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:Fleets of silent, battery powered helicopters the size of a large SUV are coming. They'll take over regional air travel in the next few years, cutting jet plane travel by 50% or more. Fewer planes means less strain on air traffic control and maintenance crews.

Ha yes if there is one thing that will make things safer, it's more helicopters.

I hate those "tell me you don't know anything about something without telling me" cliches, but that would be fitting fitting in this case.