another plane crash

[expat]

...and that Dutch fields are soft and squidgy, especially when it's been raining every bloody day for a week.

All recorded history

[Mich the Tester]

Despite having worked in aerospace it astonishes me how few people die when a sizable machine with quite a lot of flammable fuel travelling well over 100 mph smacks into the ground.

It goes to show that engineering is still alive and well in some parts of the world.

...and that Dutch fields are soft and squidgy, especially when it's been raining every bloody day for a week.

[TykeMerc]

Despite having worked in aerospace it astonishes me how few people die when a sizable machine with quite a lot of flammable fuel travelling well over 100 mph smacks into the ground.

It goes to show that engineering is still alive and well in some parts of the world.

[Bagpuss]

Lucky it's a mid-week crash. Won't inconvenience so many souls.

Yeah, as long as it doesn't mess up anyone's travel plans. That's the important thing.

[oracleslave]

Great, I fly long-haul tonight

[Mich the Tester]

The real lucky thing is that it's vacation week for the schools here, had it been last or this weekend, then that plane would have been packed with families (there is a large Turkish population in the Netherlands).

It was probably packed with sweaty fat businessmen, and they obviously don't matter as much.

[SizeZero]

Lucky it's a mid-week crash. Won't inconvenience so many souls.

The real lucky thing is that it's vacation week for the schools here, had it been last or this weekend, then that plane would have been packed with families (there is a large Turkish population in the Netherlands).

[zara_backdog]

Mr ZB will be looking at the incident reports then - to see if any of his companies components were at fault .

[Turion]

Lucky it's a mid-week crash. Won't inconvenience so many souls.

[chef]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5801273.ece

"A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 jet with 135 passengers on board has crashed while attempting to land at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that at least one person has been killed and 20 injured. As many as 50 passengers were reported to have survived, according to one Turkish news agency."

hope no one is planning on flying near schipol today

"Air traffic around Schiphol, an extremely busy aviation centre which is one of Europe's main hub airports, has been frozen."