Flown in a plane that May have crashed in the future!!

[Deantdi]

Following on from the earlier thread about experiences and tragedy concerning air/rail/shipping disasters.

This made me think back a few years when I travelled to cyprus one year on a return Helios airways trip ,who at that time were quite a new charter airline with a fleet of just 3 new boeing 737's

So it was to my amazement that the following year on 14th aug 2005,one of these 737's flight 522 crashed into a greek hillside killing all 121 persons on board.

Although obviously I have no direct involvement,it's still strange to think that on my outward and return journeys I have a 1 in 3 chance of actually flying in a plane that crashed the following year.

just made me think really as aviation is always stated as being safest way to travel.

[john_p]

2.5% of the Boeing 737's that have been built have been written off.

[okgo]

Flown in my old mans plane, which he later crashed.

[odyssey2200]

On a holiday in Cornwall the wife and I took the light aircraft trip around Lands End etc as she had never been in a small aircraft before.

Later that year the same pilot was killed when the plane crashed.

[MrVelox]

I flew in the 777 that crashed at Heathrow a couple of times.

[eccles]

I've worked on quite a few aircraft over the years that have crashed, some with fatalities.
It's not a nice feeling spending months repairing an aircraft for some nasty bugger to go and shoot it down!

[odyssey2200]

MrVelox said:

I flew in the 777 that crashed at Heathrow a couple of times.

the 777 crashed at Heathrow a couple of times?

that's just poor training!

[john_p]

I just saw that 106 of the 1832 727's that have been built have been written off! Over one in 20!


Don't fly on those

[crofty1984]

eccles said:

I've worked on quite a few aircraft over the years that have crashed, some with fatalities.
It's not a nice feeling spending months repairing an aircraft for some nasty bugger to go and shoot it down!

Event Horizon said:

"Get outta there, we think Wier may have planted a bomb on the Lewis and Clarke"
"But sir, I've... But I've just put her back together sir!"

[MrVelox]

john_p said:

I just saw that 106 of the 1832 727's that have been built have been written off! Over one in 20!


Don't fly on those

Well they have been flying for over 45 years and most of the ones still in the air are in Africa, only makes sense.

If memory serves it's the DC-9 that had the worst record for unintended landings.

[NDA]

What is air travel like in the future?

[Deantdi]

NDA said:

What is air travel like in the future?

ok well title may be misleading,it was the past, but the future when i made the original flight...incase grammar police are reading.

[Gooby]

I was booked on the infamous Lockerbie flight but decided to leave a couple of days later...

[Baby Huey]

"Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue"

[Plotloss]

NDA said:

What is air travel like in the future?

Delayed.

Which plays havoc with the time/space continuum.

[Flintstone]

[quote]Flown in a plane that May have crashed in the future!
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I knew he had a PPL but...........





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[ewenm]

I walked along a clifftop path that someone fell off once...

[Tony*T3]

Went on that Ferry that rolled, quite a few times.

[Flintstone]

Tony*T3 said:

Went on that Ferry that rolled, quite a few times.

I think it rolled just once actually and then only through ninety degrees. More of a flop than a roll really.

[mrmr96]

odyssey2200 said:

MrVelox said:

I flew in the 777 that crashed at Heathrow a couple of times.

the 777 crashed at Heathrow a couple of times?

that's just poor training!

Yeah, after the first crash they did a bit of a spit n polish repair. Some people said that the missing bits of wing should have been replaced but it's never been proven that that's what caused the second crash.