Just one more contribution on this thread. Look at http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/05/1419247/Could-a-Meteor-Have-Brought-... <http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/05/1419247/Could-a-Meteor-Have-Brought-Down-Air-France-447?from=rss> ====================== Andrew Wafula Wapakala Web: www.wertsoft.com MSN: a_wafula@hotmail.com MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/awafula Blog: http://thewert.blogspot.com/ ========================================================================== If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford "Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People" On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Planes being safer than cars is a result of risk, they carry greater risk hence there is more oversight. Lifts are safer than stairs, btw. Think about it, most accidents occur due to negligence. If the same maintenance standards applied to cars were applied to aircrafts, we would be in a bucketload of trouble. Think about it - air crafts running out of fuel midair, poor tyres on planes, jua kali solutions to problems with the choice tool being a hammer to force things into place, drunk pilots insisting that 'the plane knows its way to London'... It's not that cars are more, we are just lax.
On airport security, JKIA is insecure because of access control. Many flight are boarded directly on the runway, and it's easy to 'sneak' open fluids etc onto the plane... I think that is the major cause of concern. I boarded a local flight without once showing my ID...
On the Tuesday talk I think I can try getting a Pilot/Engineer to give a talk perhaps in early July...
On 6/6/09, Philip Njenga <njengaphilip@gmail.com> wrote:
Skyworks :)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
SPORADIC? LOLest! You've made my day! What does Delta Incognito have to do with aviation? totally funny!
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Michael Kamunge <forlogins@gmail.com>wrote:
aviation club anyone? :)
Skunkworks Uninvited Pilots Association ( SUPA! ) Skunkworks Outta-the-closet Club of Aviation ( SOCA! ) ama Skunkworks Pilots Orderly Revised Association Delta InCognito (
SPORADIC!
)
hmm...i wonder if there's a Aviation/Piloting for Dummies! ( guides for the rest of us! :) [ the FAA would probably ban that one before it even rolled off the press! ]
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