**BREAKING** another Airbus crashes in Ocean (5 year old survives)

FordRacing250 said:

arnt airbus air frames made up of composites now?

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Pretty much all newer aircraft are like 50% Composite, the rest is mostly aluminum....... The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the first to have a composite fuesalage.....


I had to fly on a 319 and a 320 to get here (colorado) and they are ok... only thing I don't like about them is that they don't have flight control calbes as back up's...... it is all fly by wire..... thats fine but a lot of pilots will tell you they like to have cables as back up...
I went to school with a guy whos fiances dad is a FedEx Captian and he refuses to fly Airbuses for that reason.... The buses are very hgh tech though..... pretty much all have glass cocpits (flat screen displays no gauges) and computers run everything... even the toilet.

They are kinda throw away air plane.... they have a lot less structure then the Boeings do and the floor is apart of the structure of the aircraft (a BUNCH of screws hold them down). The Boeings have a lot more to them when it comes to the structure and the floor is not apart of the structure..... in other words it could fly with no floor.

If I had a choice I would fly Boeing over an AirBus but that is just me.... keep in mind a lot of Boeings have crashed also.....

You guys might do some Youtube searched on Boeing stress tests... like when they test the wings to failure.. may even be some AirBus ones there also........ the 747 wings can bend to almost vertical before they fail... I don't think that is with them attached to the aircraft but I could be wrong...... impressive regardless...

Puddin' said:

Damn. Very sad. I hope they find more survivors, but it doesn't sound good. RIP

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If you ask me just finding one has the odd's of being hit by lightning 2 times back to back and walking away......

Oh for you all that fly alot check out the Myth Busters when they test the brace position on airliner seats.......... After seeing that I would never keep my feet on the floor....

I am a white knuckle flier, I'm sorry I have to admit. Actually I love the feeling of flying just that all kinds of stuff goes through my head. Lame I know, but that's the way it is. Sort of a phobic thing I guess. Anyway I flew an Airbus A321 from Tampa to Philly and found it to be a smoother ride than the 737 I flew in to Vegas a year earlier. Could have been weather conditions but both trips were on clear sunny days. I attributed the difference in ride to the composite construction of the A321 soaking up more of the bumps.

I wonder if any effort has ever been given to a system that can save an aircraft when all else fails. Remember when that jet crashed in a cornfield in the midwest? Those pilots flew that in with almost no flight control. I think they used the term thrust differential when describing the technique used to bring that bird in. Absolutely a last ditch effort that saved some lives. Why could'nt there be some way to float a doomed aircraft down in extreme emergency? Maybe an "oh shit" lever that releases a delta wing that glides the fuselage safely back to terra firma? I dunno....