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Tragic. I wonder if this will reach the national news media. Also, I am curious as to what caused it.
by HGMIV 8y ago
Tragic. I wonder if this will reach the national news media. Also, I am curious as to what caused it.
- supermw 8y agoLooks like they ran out of fuel too early and lost control of the glide due to weight distribution of packages. RIP
- teraflop 8y agoAnd your theory that two separate rare catastrophic failures happened on the same flight, at the same time, is based on what evidence?
- throwawaymath 8y agoTo be fair, plane crashes are themselves quite rare. The person you're responding to doesn't have any evidence for those specific failures, but there must have been at least one instance of catastrophic failure or gross pilot error. You're right they shouldn't be speculating based on nothing, it's just that multiple catastrophic failures aren't that outlandish if we know there's probably been at least one (i.e. the plane crashed).
- jrockway 8y agoThat is typically why planes crash. If one thing goes wrong, it can probably be handled. If everything goes wrong, the results can be disastrous. I am not sure what happened in this case. The plane was losing 7000 feet per minute at the end. I am not sure if a 767 in a stall loses altitude that quickly, but if weight shifted aft then the wings certainly wouldn't be generating lift. But would it not self-correct after a while? I have no idea.
- supermw 8y agoThe fact that the plane crashed and that there’s no trace of oil slicks in the water.
- stordoff 8y agoThat says nothing about the distribution of the packages. That's pure speculation.
- gbil 8y agoI'm in Europe and have read about this in local news sites since hours so I wonder why you think it will not reach US national news
- eganist 8y agoThis is the front page on US CNN right now. https://i.imgur.com/FqitEhc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FqitEhc.jpg And they typically elevate stories based on reader interest, so the fact that it's so thoroughly minimized (to the right, in red) shows how little anyone cares relative to the other stories.
- entity345 8y agoLet's be realistic here, this is not (national) front page news.
- close04 8y agoIt's the first cargo plane crash with fatalities in 6 years. [0] Since this type of aircraft also carries passengers it's big news. Commercial air travel in the US has a pretty enviable track record. As far as I am aware, outside of the fluke accident that killed one passenger last year when a piece of the engine went through the fuselage, the last fatalities were in 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_to_commercial_cargo_aircraft#2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_to_com... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
- alistairSH 8y agoAsiana Air 214 had 3 deaths in 2013. Pilot botched the landing and struck the tail on a seawall at San Francisco. Back portion of fuselage was ripped off, ejecting a handful of passengers and crew. For US-based carriers, you are correct. Ignoring international carriers operating in the US strikes me as slightly disingenuous (though lots of people do it), as the international carriers should be subject to most of the same regulations as US carriers (when operating in the US). And as a consumer, I'm as likely to be on BA, KLM, or somebody else as I am United when flying internationally.
- dkarl 8y agoThey were flying through/around inclement weather when it happened, and that's what their last audio exchanges were about. No info yet on other factors that could have contributed. https://twitter.com/texmexjunkie/status/1099422950548213761 https://twitter.com/texmexjunkie/status/1099422950548213761
- bluthru 8y agoABC lead with it on its evening news program yesterday.