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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Those defective and deadly flying thingies that keep falling out of the sky on our ADF personal are finally and permanently grounded and to be scrapped (well who would want to buy 1?). Australian Defence Force MRH-90 Taipan helicopters involved in Whitsundays crash retired early. And then there's those Russian planes. Did someone forget to connect the brakes? Dramatic footage shows moment Russian-made jet explodes at Mali airport. Cheers. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Sadly yet another fatal bus crash has occurred. :-( Bus full of schoolchildren tips over on motorway. A 14-year-old girl and a bus driver have died after a school coach was involved in a horror crash on a busy motorway in Britain on Friday. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Pedestrian dies after being struck by Brightline train headed to Orlando Sheriff Ken Mascara at an afternoon briefing identified the deceased as being homeless and who reportedly has family in Lake County. *** Link to Wikipedia article about the Brightline train service Brightline's maximum operating speed is 125 mph (200 km/h), the lowest speed to qualify as high-speed rail by international standards. Trains cover the 235 mi (378 km)[1] route in as little as 3 hours and 25 minutes,[4] which is an average speed of 69 mph (111 km/h). |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
And then there's those Russian planes. Did someone forget to connect the brakes?That one appears to be a case of the plane touching down around 3/4 of the way down the runway (reportedly 500m from the end of what is meant to be a 2,300m runway). There was no chance of it ever stopping & it should have done a go around before even touching the runway. Grant Darwin NT |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Can't afford the fuel for a go around? |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Can't afford the fuel for a go around?It would certainly be interesting to hear the Cockpit Voice Recorder recording for that flight. Visibility clear to the horizon, runway dry, no sign of issues with the aircraft till well after it overran the runway. That was a crash that just shouldn't have happened at all. Grant Darwin NT |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1200 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
Russian military aircraft measure altitudes in meters. At Russian military airfields, approach charts surely state runway lengths in meters. I have no idea how they handle international flights or whether they convert heights/lengths on paper notes or in their heads. But landing 3/4 down the runway when visibility is clear sounds stupid, regardless of meters or feet. [EDIT:] It's said to be a civil version, IL-76TD, registration EW-412TH owned by Belarusian airline Ruby Star carrying out (Cargo?) flights worldwide. So maybe it had a reconfigured cockpit with instruments showing "feet". |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
3 tonnes of 4 wheel drive versus 100+ tonnes of road train isn't going to end well. :-( Child and multiple other people dead at scene of Stuart Highway crash near Pine Creek, police say. Going by the witness marks questions have to be asked as to why the 4x4 suddenly wound up on the wrong side of the road. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I wonder if this will come with all the Tesla bugs as well, or will they invent new 1's? More details of Apple’s iCar have leaked, including its staggering price tag, as the release date of the new product looms. At least your speed is in front of the driver instead of being stuck in the corner of a cluttered central tablet. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31015 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Right hand drive for an American car? |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...Well it is an Apple product so do you really expect it to conform to normality? (UK will only have the left-hand drive version) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19407 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
A bus crash in a Venice suburb kills at least 21 people Breaking story, so more news to follow. And another transport problem. Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over; photo shows victim trapped The driverless car not only hit the woman, it parked itself on top of her leg. Update on Venice bus crash from BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67001518 At least 21 people including two children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near the Italian city of Venice and caught fire, officials say. |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3348 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
IMHO, Driverless cars are not ready and not safe for the "live" open road and they "can't think" if their Internet connection is not working or their "vision is obstructed (put traffic cone on front hood). AI/Computers can only do what they already know about. GIGO == Garbage In Garbage Out. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A bunch of fools with their mega buck cars. :-( Two tourists have died after a Ferrari and a Lamborghini smashed into a camper van. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
A bunch of fools with their mega buck cars. :-(And just before they hit the van, another idiot in their super expensive toy just missed running in to a motorcycle head on. Solid white line & one idiot after another is overtaking the car with the dash cam. Lots of money, but no sense between any of them. Grant Darwin NT |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22540 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Lots of money, but no sense between any of them. Their collective common sense amoeba was later found, trampled to death, on the floor in a hotel bedroom. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I'm surprised that anyone survived the impact at all. Two dead and one critically injured after plane crashes into Oregon home. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I fixed the title a bit to be more correct, but boy did he hit that prime mover hard. Florida Suspect Flees Police in Stolen Pickup Truck, Crashes Into (semitrailer in) Gas Station. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36873 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
3 idiots, a motor scooter, no helmets, run red light and meets car. Then 1 does a runner. Man leaves mates at the scene of a wild scooter crash. I wonder if any of them felt like superman as they went flying through the air. [edit] And an update on rich fools and their exotic toys. An Indian billionaire is facing jail after he was involved in a horror supercar crash – alongside his famous Bollywood star wife – that killed two tourists. |
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