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Cardiff record signing Sala on missing plane

joey.leone

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Sad news. I pray for the safety of all involved.
Apparantly a red flare was potentially spotted from what I have read. Hopefully they managed to ditch and evacuate. But who knows.
 

Davo99

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Such surreal news and so soon after the Leicester chairman, too.
 

rightwayup

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I don’t think there is anything wrong with Fredo’s posts. I flew single engine aircraft a lot during winter months round that area whilst gaining hours towards being a commercial pilot. Personally I wouldn’t do it again.
 
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Dr Know

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Should have, could have, would have or if you would board what type of plane is irrelevant here. It makes no difference if he was worth £100m or a homeless bum. This is a life we're talking about.....show some respect guys
 

fluffybunnyuk

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Thats why i learnt PPL Multi-engine, Night, and IMC, IR. I got nervy about single engine over water, after an prop failure followed by a glide and ditch (not over water thank god). Beech b55 - safest thing i ever flew, although the stall test is very scary. I've imagined plenty of wierd stuff during night flying, the sky/water line can be tricky...enough to convince me to always file IFR for nights. I wouldnt fancy NVFR over the channel.
My condolences go to his family. Its all too frequent and tragic.
 

swarvsta

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Ridiculous take. It's a short hop from Nantes in Brittany to Cardiff in South Wales. Flight time would be about the same as travelling Cardiff to Newcastle.



Also this is horse shit.

You've had a mare here, mate.

To be fair, you clearly aren’t much of an expert on this matter @freeeki

I understand your sentiment and you are clearly saying the right things from a moral standpoint, but these aircraft are not particularly safe.

I won’t bore you with various statistics but I work in actuary and the headline stat is that private aircraft have a NINETEEN times greater fatality rate than being in a vehicle on the UK roads.

With that it mind, it could pose a question as to whether the risk (for minimal hours saved travelling) is worth it.

Personally I would never get in such an aircraft, but I guess my line of work doesn’t help.

Let’s just pray for a miracle.
 

Thewobbler

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I take it these planes arent fitted with a black box that has a locator beacon. Are they equipped with cockpit voice recorders?
 

Mouse!

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I take it these planes arent fitted with a black box that has a locator beacon. Are they equipped with cockpit voice recorders?

You’d think the pilot would carry an EPIRB or similar when flying over water. I guess not.
 

fluffybunnyuk

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I take it these planes arent fitted with a black box that has a locator beacon. Are they equipped with cockpit voice recorders?

Probably not. Pimping your ride is expensive enough without adding in other stuff. The B55 was the only thing i flew that ever packed a raft... let alone anything to find it. It didnt even have GPS fitted, which is quite popular nowadays.
 

mark87

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Absolute scum

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TheChosenOne

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I've been on the Sky Sports Twitter site, looks like that could well be true - the account is locked /protected.
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But there are plenty of other wankers posting shit that is just as bad, like 'good job it wasn't the other Sala (complete with the wrong spelling of course) and pure nasty shit.

Same with the Dele injury on there, spammed to shit by haters rejoicing and taunting Dele and Spurs
 

TTID2002

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It's weird that last contact was at 2000ft, plenty of time to speak

Not really, most airplanes have their ground proximity warning systems set for 2000ft - the final warning system before a crash.

For reference, Air France 447 was 2000ft above the water less than 40 seconds before it crashed. Granted Air France was a 240 ton Airbus A330 in stall and this was a single engine puddle jumper, but still.

At that point communication beyond the plane isn't the priority, for the situation or (likely) personally.
 
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