Here here. C'mon guys, make it through.Fearing the worst but hoping for the best!
Think it's just you. 2017 was the safest year on record for aviation.Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
They have not, the coverage of them has. Much like most things, we now have much more access to worldwide news so it seems like more is happening when in some cases the opposite is true. 2017 was the safest year for air travel in history. Don't know the data for 2018.Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
No, you just hear about every crash these days because of the media coverage.Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
Just you:Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
It's crazy how media coverage can skew perception, I too had felt like plane crashes were more frequent in recent years.Just you:
Probably just seems that way because news coverage is more pervasive than ever, and more people have access to these small planes than ever before. Qualifications required to fly them are much less than what's required to fly airliners.
1 in sixteen million apparently, now. It was apparently 1 in two million in 2013. 2014 was another bad year.Horrible news. Hope everything turns out OK. Is it just me or the frequency of airplane crashes gone up the last 5-6 years?
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I know @EmilianoSala1. I call him and he doesn't answer his phone. Type of 1st in and out of the . @CardiffCityFC he fears the worst. Air Control of the island of Guernsey confirms Q the pilot requested emergency landing at 20:30h Local. Intensive search on the spot channel
Well it seems the pilot called for an emergency landing last night and they haven’t been seen since so not looking goodNot looking good at all... hope its just false alarm
The other day my mum receive several SOS signal from my sister phone calling for help, with audio recording of plane engine and google map in the airport sending to us... which get us worried.. turns out she mis-click the SOS button when she is switching off her phone before her plane was taking off...
But far more likely to survive a car crash.Much more chance of dying, driving to the airport.
I don't think you understood.But far more likely to survive a car crash.
I know but it’s a pretty pointless thing to say.I don't think you understood.
Much, much, much more chance of DYING driving to the airport, not just crashing.
It's pretty obvious it's not a false alarm, it's been 14 hours with no sign of life after they requested an emergency landing and radio contact was lost with the plane going missing.Not looking good at all... hope its just false alarm
The other day my mum receive several SOS signal from my sister phone calling for help, with audio recording of plane engine and google map in the airport sending to us... which get us worried.. turns out she mis-click the SOS button when she is switching off her phone before her plane was taking off...
That's because they don't occur 1 to 1.I don't think you understood.
Much, much, much more chance of DYING driving to the airport, not just crashing.
I'd like to see a similar comparison where normal passenger flights are excluded, only looking at microplanes like the one that's involved in this accident.I don't think you understood.
Much, much, much more chance of DYING driving to the airport, not just crashing.
I assume those numbers are for all aircraft worldwide? I wonder what the numbers look like specifically for these small 2 seater planes in isolation rather than them being bundled in with much larger/safer and more technically advanced aircraft with, i'd assume, more experienced pilots.Just you:
Probably just seems that way because news coverage is more pervasive than ever, and more people have access to these small planes than ever before. Qualifications required to fly them are much less than what's required to fly airliners.
I doubt they'd have any chance of survival in the English channel in rough seas in the middle of winter, even for a couple of hours.I'm obviously clutching at straws but given that this is only 12h ago i'm not giving up hope yet. I hope they're found in life-vests or clinging onto something.
Fatal car crashes are still a lot more likely than plane crashes. It's not a comparison of all car crashes, just fatal ones.That's because they don't occur 1 to 1.
Plane crashes are more likely to be fatal than car crashes.
I know but it’s a pretty pointless thing to say.
Fear of flying stems from the knowledge that if something goes wrong you’re almost certainly f*cked.
They lost all contact on radar while it was at 2,500 feet, that's a bad sign. And small debris isn't always a lot easier to find. 12 hours might seem like a short period of time, but it's in the channel without survival suits. They'd be struggling even with 1/4 of that time.One instantly fears the worst in these cases but I think there's still a bit of hope. If the pilot asked for an emergency landing but couldn't make it to the airport he must have still had control when the problems began, so possible he managed a "controlled" ditching. The fact nothing has been found yet also at least leaves open the possibility that the plane hit the water as one (and hopefully slowly), debris of high velocity crashes or in air failures is a lot easier to find than 1 sunken airplane.
I'm obviously clutching at straws but given that this is only 12h ago i'm not giving up hope yet. I hope they're found in life-vests or clinging onto something.
Fatal car crashes are still a lot more likely than plane crashes. It's not a comparison of all car crashes, just fatal ones.