Another plane down - Algerian Airlines

[y2blade]

Has it gone Down? or just "missing" at this stage?????

[Eric Mc]

Justin Cyder said:

Bull. st. Some of us have compassion for our fellow man & I guess some of us are just s.

Compassion is a rare commodity on PH.

[Eric Mc]

y2blade said:

Has it gone Down? or just "missing" at this stage?????

"Lost contact" is all that's been reported so far.

[BlackLabel]

It's still quite rare for commercial airliners to crash - an average of 15-20 a year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and...

I don't underderstand this 'oh they crash everyday - what's the big deal' attitude.

[Digga]

garyhun said:

Thank the lord for the wonder that is the Channel Tunnel.

I'm not sure it's big enough for all of us to hide from the falling planes.

[anonymous-user]

BlackLabel said:

I don't underderstand this 'oh they crash everyday - what's the big deal' attitude.

It's a lack of empathy, usually indicative of sociopathic tendencies. People come onto a thread and then post they don't care. Idiot posters bothering to point out their apparent casual disregard to the death of others is unfortunately becoming more and more common.

Other people might have a multitude of reasons to be interested or saddened by a crash involving a large aircraft.

[Eric Mc]

Sadly, this attitude is all over PH now. I'm beginning to wonder does this site attract a large number of people with psychopathic tendencies.

Or maybe it's typical all over the internet.

[loafer123]

To be fair, at one end of the spectrum you have hand wringing uber empathy and at the other the "it doesn't affect me, what is the issue" crowd.

The vast majority of PH is in the middle.

I am closer to the latter than the former, personally.

I can't do anything about the crash, feel sorry for the victims families, but recognise that life is full of risk and chance.

[Ruttager]

Apparently its gone down over Niger. I've not seen conclusive evidence on this just a few news report tweets.

[Eric Mc]

Remains to be seen whether it is an accident or due to some other reason. This part of the world also has an ongoing serious conflict.

[onyx39]

Twitter confirming that it has definitely crashed.

[Petrolhead95]

What's that, three in one week now?

[karona]

http://avherald.com/h?article=477c75de&opt=0

[thehawk]

Eric Mc said:

Probably all foreigners too - so won't really matter.

Yes, probably all brown people, with a token French engineer/oil worker on board. Far less value for the news than say 3 blonde Dutch kids dying in a crash.

[onyx39]

thehawk said:

Eric Mc said:

Probably all foreigners too - so won't really matter.

Yes, probably all brown people, with a token French engineer/oil worker on board. Far less value for the news than say 3 blonde Dutch kids dying in a crash.

Apparently...

50 French
24 from Burkina Faso
8 Lebanese
6 Algerians
5 Canadians
4 Germans
2 Luxembourg
1 Mali
1 Cameroonian
1 Ukranian
1 Romanian
1 Swiss.

[Amateurish]

Could this be to do with the Mali conflict? It appears to have come down in a rebel held area - where the French are fighting. I presume those rebels have Libyan hardware.

[Puggit]

Amateurish said:

Could this be to do with the Mali conflict? It appears to have come down in a rebel held area - where the French are fighting. I presume those rebels have Libyan hardware.

There were some very active storm cells in the area - hence the flight was advised to change course before they lost contact.

[Puggit]

Wreckage apparently spotted towards the Mali/Algeria border - that's somewhat curious as that means it pretty much traversed Mali silently.

[Steffan]

Tragic accident once again by the comments on various media. Statistically air travel is pretty safe on average. Not that such information helps the dead or bereaved individuals involved. But all forms of transport involve risk, as does most of life itself.

It sounds to me like the sandstorm has been involved via the air controllers that there could be a better route given the storm. It makes me wonder why no messages were heard if there was a problem. In this case I hope, the accident investigators will be able to examine the site, so with good fortune at least an explanation and closure for the bereaved will be possible. That is little enough. Very sad indeed.

[Moonhawk]

Steffan said:

Tragic accident once again by the comments on various media. Statistically air travel is pretty safe on average.

Yep - whilst clearly tragic for those involved - it does need to be put into context.

The number of people killed on the roads annually is around 1.24 million - thats around 3400 per day

To kill that number of people in air traffic accidents - you would have to bring down 8 fully laden 747s every single day of the year.