Derestricting Hyosung 125 Comet

The Older Gentleman bored us all completely to death with wittery prose
along the lines of:

I don't understand why they were trying to sing "Auld Lang Syne" :-/

 

Yes I'd agree that was definitely amazing.

 

That's right. Cancer got Robbo. :-(

 

The other amazing recent one was the Transat transatlantic flight (a
documentary was aired on it a few months ago).

An Airbus 330, and it ran out of fuel due to a fuel leak, in
mid-Atlantic. The pilots failed to recognise the fuel leak for what it
was, amazingly enough, until both engines flamed out.

Anyway, they then glided the thing for 19 minutes and managed to put it
down on the Azores, at Lajes (old B52 staging post, IIRC, with a FOAD
long runway).

Utterly incredible bit of flying which didn't make up for the fact that
they thought their instruments, which were telling them they had no
fuel, were faulty.

Faulty maintenance was responsible for the fuel leak - a fuel hos became
detached and dumped the contents of a wing tank into the stratosphere.
To make matters worse, the pilots transferred the fuel from the other
tank(s) to the leaky one and dumped that as well.....

http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ts236/photo.shtml

 

They weren't, you dim spic.

They were doing the Hokey Cokey to pass the time on the way down.

 

platypus says...

Freefalling from 3000 feet you'd have just enough time to think "Oh sit,
I'm going to die"

 

Yeah, that's what I thought. Wickered way to go, eh?

 

Dunno, shall we have a straw poll?

 

Isn't that the situation which was recreated in flight sims afterwards -
nobody in the sim managed to get to the airport and all crashed heavily with
total loss of life?

 

Flock of sheep, then. I'd rather land on sheep than die in a group hug with
them.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Bound to be a lot of hot air, anyway.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

<*thud*>

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Nope, I was thinking of Howard Lees. I've "known" for years that it was
cancer, but I can't remember where I heard it.

 

Well, it was a bit of a **** at the time, but it's really not that different
to dying in a car crash, except it seems to get analysed in greater detail.

 

You're probably right. I might have used slightly stronger language,
though...

 

platypus says...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus"

Just what I was thinking, actually. On related note, perhaps it's time
to forget about the painstaking accident investigations and just print
on the bottom of every airline ticket... "Bits fall off sometimes: Get
used to it."

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Champ was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

My new place's business travel insurance states 'aviation expect when
employee is piloting or crewing the plane'. Oops.

 

Actually, I'm trying to visualise the airline that would even let you
aboard one of their aircraft.

I could only think of Cubana.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Oops. That'll be last night's Rioja typing.

<waves Aeroflot frequent crasher^Wflyer pass>