Air India plane crash

CoffeeIcePapers said:
Always works, works on mobile, can pre download. I’m a big fan of piracy and work arounds, but there’s a price point where the value offered and the price are equal enough for me to pay. This is one of those instances.
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JordanD said:
I mostly watch YouTube with the app on my TV, so I’m not sure if adblocker would work for that, but yeah. Nice being able to download longer videos to watch offline on deadheads or commutes too. There’s just rarely anything on any airlines IFE that I have any interest in seeing anymore.
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Ah right... the offline downloads....
Good point.
 
MikeD said:
Oh, 350 as in A350? Not that there was 350 individual boomies on the group text?
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Oh, no A350! Ha!

Oh man, if it was a text group of 350 people, I’d leave that immediately. My phone already glows hot from the vibrate alert constantly going off.
 
In some Indian news articles, they’re hailing the CA as a hero for controlling the crash and missing the hostel sleeping buildings, and instead going for the green grass area.


I honestly don’t think there was any lateral control attempts. It went down where it went down, not some heroic effort to avoid something.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
In some Indian news articles, they’re hailing the CA as a hero for controlling the crash and missing the hostel sleeping buildings, and instead going for the green grass area.


I honestly don’t think there was any lateral control attempts. It went down where it went down, not some heroic effort to avoid something.
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Which is the same story for every ejection seat airplane that ever went down. "oh they obviously avoided buildings". No they just punched out when they could.
 
knot4u said:
I remember the first time I learned that cockpit seats and their tracks were a RII, initially it seemed like an odd thing. It’s pretty important for the nut behind the yoke to stay put, in fact there’s a reason for the balls hanging from the center post of the windshield. I wonder if those are addressed in the MEL? I never looked it up but I can remember reading a well crafted and light hearted description of them here a long time ago.
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Captain Ting Ling of China Airlines is credited as creating the Eye Reference Ball System. Initially they used brass to make them but now they are often plastic. Bombardier published a (mock) service bulletin about them for April Fools years ago, when corporations could still make jokes like that and not get in trouble.
 
Has anyone else heard the crazy story going around that the survivor was able to open the emergency exit and jump to safety moments before the plane hit the ground? Someone even made an animated graphic of how he did it.
 
SeanD said:
Has anyone else heard the crazy story going around that the survivor was able to open the emergency exit and jump to safety moments before the plane hit the ground? Someone even made an animated graphic of how he did it.
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I think Bugs Bunny did it...
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
All the more reason, as I stated before, keep your paws OFF the thrust levers once after V1 and until thrust reduction. ;)

Yeah, I’m looking at you Younited buddy @Ian_J ;)

At least if your seat slides back, you won’t take the thrust levers with you.
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May Van's Ghost forever haunt you...
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