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Posted by: TimALoftis 3 years, 3 months agoA Delta commuter flight -- en route from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia -- crashed just after take-off from Blue Grass Airport on Sunday, and airlines and airport officials reported
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amajid
Aug. 27, 2006, 11:18 a.m.Plane crashes are becoming more everyday. Safety needcto force on air line carriers more home securit terror. The both are important, but air line services neglating their duties for human life. All bussines is more concern about profit. Safety build up profit. Bush need to learn about safety of economics fot the US. citizens. The air lines bussine along with Bush is concern about In God We Trust in ther pockets! I favor flying because it's modern travel to life living. The air plane makers need to some of their old tenology in put back to use with new.
AMajid
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Nosokomos
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:05 p.m.Always has to be a greedy bad buy behind every sad event. Every sky scraper and large suspension bridge built in the early part of the last century cost life. It was the cost of building them. Dollars and blood. Would we have been better off had we shunned such activity. Only God himself could guarantee our absolute safety in all our endeavors. He's chosen not to do this. We try to find a compromise between safe and affordable. You'll never achieve 100% safe so it's always a trade off of "relatives". Unfortunate but every time I drive down the freeway, I assume there's a small chance I won't get where I'm going alive. Doesn't cause me to stay home cowering in the basement nor demanding that my government pad every hard surface that I might hit while on my trip. Just one man's opinion, of course.
Robert H. Galloway
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BarryM
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:13 p.m.I pray Dear Lord that you will receive these souls coming to you and bless them and their family and friends, Amen.
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bonaroo
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:33 p.m.dickmcd2004
I would venture that amajid can speak more of your language than you can of his. Who's the idiot.
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bonaroo
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:36 p.m.dickmcd2004
I would venture that amajid can speak more of your language than you can of his. Who's the idiot???
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dtress1d
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:39 p.m.My prayers are with the family and friends! May God give them the Encouragement/Comfort that they need during this time.
Also, it will be interesting to find out what actually happened. Thus far I have heard all kinds of possible reasons, but it will be nice to know "what" so that if there is some "fix/repair/procedure" changes needed, that they can occur.
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SunMatter
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:41 p.m.I guess there are three issues here. the first is design considerations, maintainance and human factors.
Looking from an SRM&QA perspective, every mechanical system has a life span that should not be exceeded. The second is poor maintainance.
Figure what you get when you outsource maintainance to Mexico, why do you think it's cheaper. The second is who makes sure these planes should be even flying and are not exceeding their life or improperly maintained.
Still, the best maintainance and design cannot compensate for an intoxicated or unqualified pilot, untrained air traffic controller or non certified ground crew.
I hope we will be smarter after the NTSB investigation that is sure to follow. It is a shame that such things have to happen to increase awareness to the subject. My heart goes out to the families of the dead and injured.
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John00065
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:43 p.m.I THINK what Amijiad is trying to say is that Bush and the airlines are more concerned with the money to pay for the terrorist/security aspect of air travel than the actual maintenance and upgrade of the planes themselves.
I'm hardly a Bush fan, but at the same time, a plane crash is hardly his fault.
In truth, this is the first fatal plane crash I have heard of in quite some time. Although there have been a few mechnical problem stricken flights recently (with landing gear sticking etc), For the amount of planes in the air, it is still an extremely safe way to travel. My wife and I are planning to fly to Atlanta for Labor Day weekend.
But I degress, this tragedy is hardly the time or place to get up on ones' soapbox and pontificate. My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and families of those injured and killed, and I agree with most of the posts online here...Amijiad is an idiot.
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jaxmanjoe
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:49 p.m.Amijiad - your point is taken, and understood. There are those of us who appreciate you trying to use our language to converse when we certainly do not know your language.
Thanks for your input.
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mmcl
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:51 p.m.BW4L09
(can somebody please translate that? ^)
Plane crashes are becoming more common everyday. Airlines need to focus more on safety than security from terrorists. They both are important but the airlines are neglecting their duty to protect human life. All business is more concerned with profit. Safety interferes with profit. Bush needs to learn about the economics of safety for the protection of US citizens. The air line business along with Bush are concerned with In God We Trust in their pockets. I favor flying because it is a modern way of travel. The air lines need to complement their new technology with the old proven technology.
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Beanie
Aug. 27, 2006, 12:58 p.m.My heart-felt Best to all the families that deal with this tragedy Personally I mean, and I Pray for the recovery and that the survivor will live. I heard about this early this morning and I grieve for the ones that are family members, and for the one who survived but is in critical condition at the local hospital. It is true that these things can happen to any mechanical object, but the heart is not mechanical and it does grieve. May the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen.
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shasha
Aug. 27, 2006, 1:08 p.m.Prayers for family and friends.
Prayers for the recovery of the co-pilot. And let God help him deal with this tragedy.
God Speed
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DisconsolateChimera
Aug. 27, 2006, 1:21 p.m.To those of you intimating that the crash was due to mechanical problems: if you read the article, you will see that the plane may have been on the wrong runway, one which was half as long as the one it was supposed to use -- and much too short for that type of aircraft. If so, it was pilot error, not greedy corportations cutting corners, Homeland Security not doing their job, blah blah blah... (Not that I don't agree that greedy corporations are always cutting corners so they can line their own pockets! And that Homeland InSecurity is one of the biggest jokes in gov't Bureaucracy.) But really, get the facts before you start your wild speculating and blaming, m'kay?
My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims of this tragedies.
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WYSIWYGReality
Aug. 27, 2006, 1:25 p.m.Our Heart goes to the families and friends of those who perished or got injured. I hope this will be used to improve our flying safety conditions. I however don't know what the airplane was doing on a runway shorter than required ... I'll have an update later.
PS: this is not the right place to be calling anyone an idiot.
Thank you mmcl, that was great.
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dr-tom
Aug. 27, 2006, 2:37 p.m.As a retired airline captain with over 26,000 flight hours, I find it nearly impossible to believe that the crew selected the wrong runway. I would assume that the crew had made numerous take-offs and landings from Blue Grass Airport in the past, and could taxi from the gate to the appropriate runway "with their eyes closed". In addition, prudence (and perhaps the pre-takeoff check list) would require a runway heading check and cross-check with the directional gyros and mag compass prior to initiating the takeoff roll.
In any case, my prayers to the families and friends.
P.S. "black boxes" are not black - they're orange.
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Dr. Tom
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clobbledank
Aug. 27, 2006, 2:46 p.m.I would say that AMajid did a heck of a lot better at stating his thoughts in Enlish than most of could in his language. Amajid, don't let anyone hold you down by being rude. Keep on trying and learning.
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STONERS
Aug. 27, 2006, 3:47 p.m.Its so nice to know that they are alot of people that still care.Im sure these people needs your prayers.My thoughts and prayers are with you all, May God be with you and help you get through your lost.
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STONERS
Aug. 27, 2006, 3:53 p.m.The Lexington Airport is not far from were I was born and raised.As of right now Im pretty sure that I had no realitives on board that plane still havent been able to get ahold of all family members right now but I will keep you posted on this issue.Again Thanks for all your prayers even if Im not affected directly its still nice to know that people are praying for them....
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holyshiiite
Aug. 27, 2006, 4:15 p.m.amjiid comment was understood, funny, but understood, good point too. there is too little concern about safety always, however nothing is foolproof and goofups happen thats just life its tragic that people have to lose loved ones on acoount of human error. wrong runway, geeez.
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cdr-smith-usn-ret
Aug. 27, 2006, 6:20 p.m.In 2005, a 60 year old airplane shed a wing near Miami. That was the first fatal crash in the US or a US carrier since the American Airlines airbus crash in New York shortly after 9-11 and it ended the longest run of no-accidents in history since the beginning of commercial scheduled air travel.
Our FAA and NTSB and air carriers do a commendable job, ranting of the irrational and their left-wing supporters not withstanding. The price of airline safety is eternal vigilance. Not only looking for improper maintenance and procedures and human error, but also vigilance less those who seek to soil civilization. The biggest threat is not corporate short-cuts, but a deliberate attack on free people by those who hate our freedom because we allow religious freedom and are not Muslim.
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zaphod
Aug. 27, 2006, 7:10 p.m."Dr. Tom I would assume that the crew had made numerous take-offs and landings from Blue Grass Airport in the past, and could taxi from the gate to the appropriate runway "with their eyes closed"."
Maybe that's why they were on the wrong runway.
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rickhall
Aug. 27, 2006, 8:14 p.m.It now appears from recent news stories that the plane in question did, in fact, mistakenly attempt to take off from the shortest runway at the field. This is according to a story on yahoo.com.
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