Transportation Safety 3

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Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31317 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 1977257 - Posted: 27 Jan 2019, 1:33:00 UTC - in response to Message 1977174. Last modified: 27 Jan 2019, 1:33:28 UTC The weather was perfect. Time was about 16 PM. It was certainly a pilot error, done by a student. The teacher was in a back seat. I suspect that it will come out that while it was instruction, the "students" in the front seats are fully licensed and the training was limited to operating on skis rather than wheels. There is a lot of that kind of training, such as night landings, float landings, ski landings, practice instrument conditions that fully licensed pilots get. I seriously doubt these "students" were learning how to fly. So at this point we have four sets of pilot eyeballs and four sets of pilot ears, four pilot mouths and they all failed to talk, hear, see and avoid. One thing that hasn't been said is what color was the helicopter painted? Snow white? That could go a very long way to an explanation. Look up whiteout. ID: 1977257 · Reply Quote

tullio Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1	Message 1977306 - Posted: 27 Jan 2019, 10:41:26 UTC Maybe there was the Sun in the pilots' eyes. At high altitudes it can be blinding. Tullio ID: 1977306 · Reply Quote

W-K 666 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19691 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67	Message 1978432 - Posted: 3 Feb 2019, 12:31:13 UTC Like they think, just putting out a police warning is going to stop people slowing down when they see this as they are driving past. Tregarth dragon sculpture prompts police road safety warning ID: 1978432 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24930 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 1978584 - Posted: 4 Feb 2019, 11:19:33 UTC The twin-engine plane came apart and caught fire mid-flight, witnesses told local media, before crashing in Yorba Linda, a suburb of Los Angeles. Fatal crash in L.A ID: 1978584 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3469 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 1978869 - Posted: 6 Feb 2019, 6:43:45 UTC Pedestrian hit, killed by Amtrak train in Haltom City Witnesses and the train engineer said the man was not on the tracks, but was jogging close enough for the train to hit him, Haltom City Police Officer Eric Peters said ID: 1978869 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 38117 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1978881 - Posted: 6 Feb 2019, 9:03:54 UTC - in response to Message 1978869. Pedestrian hit, killed by Amtrak train in Haltom City Witnesses and the train engineer said the man was not on the tracks, but was jogging close enough for the train to hit him, Haltom City Police Officer Eric Peters said He was probably wired for sound. :-O Cheers. ID: 1978881 · Reply Quote

HAL Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 535 Credit: 8,246,955 RAC: 3	Message 1979044 - Posted: 7 Feb 2019, 1:48:52 UTC Three crew die in Canadian Pacific derailment CBC News Â· Posted: Feb 04, 2019 "Victims ID'd after train plunged 60 metres off bridge near B.C.-Alberta border Three Canadian Pacific Railway crew members who were killed early Monday in a train derailment east of Field, B.C., have been identified. Conductor Dylan Paradis, engineer Andrew Dockrell and trainee Daniel Waldenberger-Bulmer were killed, according to CP, when the westbound freight train went off the tracks at about 1 a.m. MT. All three were on board the train at the time. A union representative said earlier the train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary. Greg Edwards with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) said the workers had just taken over the train when it happened. " https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/train-derailment-cp-railway-field-bc-tsb-1.5004622 I'm putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. ID: 1979044 · Reply Quote

W-K 666 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19691 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67	Message 1979346 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 16:54:38 UTC Nobody injured, only five passengers. Tree smashes on to double-decker bus in Poole ID: 1979346 · Reply Quote

rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22795 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1979356 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 17:24:57 UTC Danger - low flying trees (oops - this isn't the captions thread) glad nobody has been hurt, although the driver must need a new set of underwear Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1979356 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24930 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 1979366 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 17:46:59 UTC - in response to Message 1979356. Last modified: 8 Feb 2019, 17:48:10 UTC :-) On a more serious note, I watched Ep 12 of A1 Britain's Longest Road last night & was glad I did so. (How I missed this series on TV, I don't know.) I e-mailed my old transport manager, telling him to watch it & provided the link. Received an answer this afternoon, apologising for the grief he gave me over it. In Episode 12, a police traffic officer stated what I have known for many a year. The national speed limit on Britain's roads (including Dual Carriageways) is 70mph unless otherwise stated. However as far as LGV's (that includes "White Van Man") & HGV's are concerned it is 60mph unless on motorways. My old TM kept pulling me up on this point as many of my crewmates often complained that I was too slow on A & B roads. ID: 1979366 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14690 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874	Message 1979408 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 19:41:13 UTC Dashcam footage shows a lorry narrowly miss a 14-year-old boy More of a pirate pickup truck than a professional HGV, but at least the boy was safe, and the driver was prosecuted and convicted. ID: 1979408 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24930 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 1979454 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 23:21:02 UTC - in response to Message 1979408. Was going to post that but the "sudden" outage got in the way. Would've labelled the link: The Bad to go with this: The Good As for the Ugly, most drivers are aware of that. :-( ID: 1979454 · Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13946 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 1979458 - Posted: 8 Feb 2019, 23:26:53 UTC - in response to Message 1979454. Was going to post that but the "sudden" outage got in the way. Would've labelled the link: The Bad to go with this: The Good Good to see they followed procedure and went around. The number of overruns that have occurred when pilots have tried to continue to land after an initial big bounce are way too many. Grant Darwin NT ID: 1979458 · Reply Quote

Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 38117 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489	Message 1979680 - Posted: 10 Feb 2019, 8:24:56 UTC Prince Philip, 97, gives up driver's licence after crash. I'm sure that some will feel safer on the roads now, though charges over that accident are still possible for the Prince. Cheers. ID: 1979680 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31317 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32	Message 1979830 - Posted: 11 Feb 2019, 2:37:25 UTC https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-baby-car-crashes-front-la-police-station/story?id=60970724 ID: 1979830 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24930 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7	Message 1980382 - Posted: 14 Feb 2019, 22:13:45 UTC Technology to the rescue. :-) ID: 1980382 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3469 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 1980651 - Posted: 16 Feb 2019, 5:50:29 UTC SUSPECTED DWI DRIVER CRASHES INTO WRECK SCENE ON THE TOLLWAY, KILLS GOOD SAMARITAN ... The driver of the vehicle who crashed into the Jeep while good Samaritans were checking on the occupant has been arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. ID: 1980651 · Reply Quote

Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3469 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4	Message 1980652 - Posted: 16 Feb 2019, 5:56:05 UTC VICTIM IDENTIFIED IN FATAL FORT WORTH PEDESTRIAN CRASH According to a release by Fort Worth PD, the female victim was riding in the bed of a pickup truck when she fell out onto the freeway. She was then struck multiple times. ID: 1980652 · Reply Quote

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 1981231 - Posted: 20 Feb 2019, 5:29:36 UTC passenger plane rockets to 800 mph in screaming jet stream ID: 1981231 · Reply Quote

moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0	Message 1981272 - Posted: 20 Feb 2019, 12:36:16 UTC - in response to Message 1981231. I have travelled once in a jet stream. A bumpy trip from London to Stockholm and we gained about one half hour:) Not as fast as 800 mph groundspeed though... ID: 1981272 · Reply Quote

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