nebula Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted July 15, 2009 What a horrible wreck! I mean, have you ever seen this kind of destruction of an aircraft from a "taking off" crash? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_plane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believer1997 Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,363 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 9 Joined: 11/07/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2009 Most air crashes are horrendous - but this does look bad. These were some comments about the plane itself, which apparently just disintegrated... The three-engine Tupolev 154 is the aging workhorse of Russia's commercial fleet, at one time carrying about half of all Russian air passengers. It was designed as the Soviet counterpart to the Boeing 727 and the European-made Trident, but with the added ability to operate from short, rough runways. About 1,000 were produced. Although a popular aircraft, it has had a checkered history and has been involved in about 30 air disasters since it was created in 1968. Aviation analyst Kieran Daly told CNN said numerous Tupolevs have been lost since the aircraft was introduced in the 70s. "Having said that there were many of them built, and they have been in service in quite difficult parts of the world for a very long time. But there have been a lot of these Tupolev 154s lost, quite a few in Iran." The last plane crash in Iran involving a Tupolev plane occurred in 2006, according to the Web site airdisaster.com. That seems to be quite a few disasters of this type of plane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Dannyboy Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 156 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,454 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 4 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/22/2004 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/02/1969 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I'm waiting for them to start blaming Israel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Believer1997 Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,363 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 119 Days Won: 9 Joined: 11/07/2008 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2009 Or Obama... does anyone know where he was when this happened? Does he have an alibi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 683 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,128 Content Per Day: 2.00 Reputation: 1,352 Days Won: 54 Joined: 02/03/2009 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/07/1952 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Not Israel, on our news channel tonight they blamed the USA and Britain for the sanctions that do not allow them to purchase new planes. The fact that they can get spares from Russia seems to be a side issue, but one expert said that there are a lot of spare parts for these Russian planes on the black market that are not originals but are "counterfeit" parts. There does seem to have been a spate of air accidents just lately. Wonder what is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 597 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,117 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,847 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2009 Usually problems with maintenance or maintenance procedures. I'm helping a friend rebuild a Bonanza and to do so properly every little single thing has to be done very carefully and in prescribed ways. Any shortcuts result in problems later, and problems in the air are usually bad, and in this case really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christofine Posted July 15, 2009 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 43 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/17/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted July 15, 2009 Lets not forget our common humanity and just give in to tunnel vision about everything that happens. Probably if we saw the grief and pain of the victim's families, children etc we would be sad, despite holding a fixed political view. Christofine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riel Posted July 16, 2009 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 179 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/06/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted July 16, 2009 Or Obama... does anyone know where he was when this happened? Does he have an alibi? Oh, goodness, you're not suggesting O'Bama had anything to do with it, are you? He has enough to keep him busy in O'Bama land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo1 Posted July 16, 2009 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,822 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 19 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/23/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/16/1967 Share Posted July 16, 2009 the plane that crashed killing the 168 two australians were also killed in that plane crash the black box was found but its damaged it was an old russian plane a lot of old russsian planes have been brought and need to be retired thye old russian planes are unsafe and i would not bored on an old russian plane i will refuse so if any one is to be blamed it is the company its self damo1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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