How often do people die on flights?

Biohazard said:
There was that plane that decompressed during flight in Greece (?) that flew for a few hours with everyone dead on it before it plunged into a hillside.

Pretty grim thinking to be honest.
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I worked with the guy recently that was the engineer that signed off that flight. All the newspapers here plastered his pictures all over and basically had him locked up and convicted like the school teacher in that recent Bristol murder.

He got some hefty payouts from the papers.

Very sad incident, Pilots not being able to communicate with each other correctly and unable to recongnise the difference between a take off config warning and cabin altitude warning. The second huge giveaway was when the mask deployed.

**** knows who trained them. :(

They didn't follow the preflight checklist, didn't understand the warnings and didn't listen to the ground engineer when they had issues. You would be very angry if it was a member of your family on the flight.
 
dannyjo22 said:
I worked with the guy recently that was the engineer that signed off that flight. All the newspapers here plastered his pictures all over and basically had him locked up and convicted like the school teacher in that recent Bristol murder.

He got some hefty payouts from the papers.

Very sad incident, Pilots not being able to communicate with each other correctly and unable to recongnise the difference between a take off config warning and cabin altitude warning. The second huge giveaway was when the mask deployed.

**** knows who trained them. :(

They didn't follow the preflight checklist, didn't understand the warnings and didn't listen to the ground engineer when they had issues. You would be very angry if it was a member of your family on the flight.
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It was all a bit odd that incident. But, as usual, the engineers get blamed.
 
I don't know if the chap died but on a flight to Orlando, one of the passengers suffered a heart attack and we where diverted to somewhere in South Carolina. Cabin crew refused my offer of administering CPR and of setting up the defib. Paramedics came on to the plane, carried out CPR and then applied the defibrillator and whisked him away.

I felt pretty sorry for the family suffering such an incident while on the first day of their holiday. Anyhoo, for the rest of us it was pretty grim too. Temperatures outside (and soon after, inside too) where 34c and we where not allowed to leave the plane because we had not passed through passport control. The plane had to wait (and wait) until it got a slot to take off again and we also had an issue with refueling as the pilot couldn't reach the carrier company to authorise it and eventually had to put it on his own credit card (try that now with oil prices so high, ouch). The end product was that we had to wait five hours, stuck on a hot and very humid plane with screaming, bored kids and disgruntled passengers who hadn't realised what was going on.
 
Justin said:
It was all a bit odd that incident. But, as usual, the engineers get blamed.
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Myself and another Ocuk member had the 'pleasure' of working a pressurisation snag with the said engineer on the 737. Needless to say after that case there wasn't a single element of the pressurisation system he wasn't an expert in.

I'm just glad I wasn't in his shoes for the years it went on for.
 
I'm dreading next Saturday as I will be travelling on 1 of these types of planes:

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I feel safer on a bigger plane than 1 of these 'Ikea' planes lol...
 
I've flown business class, it was unreal. I'd want a refund for the price if they had to place a body in there. You pay a fortune for it why should you have a body in there? Could you not place the body in the hold? or at the back of the cattle truck

I've flown loads of times and no death on board yet or someone taking ill.
 
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