Plane overshoots runway and splits in two

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:36

Thankfully nobody was hurt

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A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana's main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths.

Ms Ramsingh said a taxi driver reached the crash site before rescuers and asked for $20 to drive her back to the terminal.

"I had to pay, but in times of emergencies, you don't charge people for a ride," she said.

Caribbean Airlines, which is majority-owned by Trinidad and Tobago with Jamaica holding a minority stake, does not have a history of serious safety problems.

Let's hear some opinions on who's to blame for this before we get the facts

Before we get all the facts, my opinion s that it is pilot error (presuming everything was functioning correctly) as it isn't too different to THIS crash, at least not fundamentally. Both wet and dark.

/armchair pilot

Tefal · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:39

Cleeecooo said:
Let's hear some opinions on who's to blame for this before we get the facts

<3 these style threads

I wonder if a mod could set something up where we could make pools for betting post counts :cool:

maybe as software would be too much hassle some people just arrange the pools in threads then passes the list of who wont to the dons at the end of the week

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:40

Tefal said:
<3 these style threads

That's why I made the thread - always nice to hear unjustified views and opinions and then be proven horribly wrong

LiE · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:43

Glad everyone is OK, could have been pretty bad.

and wtf with the taxi driver...

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:45

LiE said:
Glad everyone is OK, could have been pretty bad.

Not often you hear that a plane has split in two and every one has survived :eek:

EDIT: Taxi driver should be jailed IMO

PermaBanned · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:48

So who votes we have a competition where we all guess who's fault it was and whoever's right gets a free pint curtsey of Cleeecooo?

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:48

PermaBanned said:
So who votes we have a competition where we all guess who's fault it was and whoever's right gets a free pint curtsey of Cleeecooo?

*runs*

Conscript · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:51

Ill start.

Muslim aircrew :mad:

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:51

Conscript said:
Ill start.

Muslim aircrew

hahaha LOL

PermaBanned · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:57

Okay, the autopilot became self aware and did what is officially known in the trade as "a HAL".

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:58

PermaBanned said:
Okay, the autopilot became self aware and did what is officially known in the trade as "a HAL".

Hal?

Zefan · 1 Aug 2011 at 08:59

Cleeecooo said:
Hal?

You've never heard of Counterstrike or 2001 a Space Odyssey?

What sort of person are you

?

Tefal · 1 Aug 2011 at 09:01

Zefan said:
You've never heard of Counterstrike or 2001 a Space Odyssey?

What sort of person are you ?

90 year old woman from Ipswich?

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 09:01

Zefan said:
You've never heard of Counterstrike or 2001 a Space Odyssey?

What sort of person are you ?

Hey. I have counterstrike!!!
I got it yesterday but... STFU!!!

mame · 1 Aug 2011 at 09:17

Ms Ramsingh said a taxi driver reached the crash site before rescuers and asked for $20 to drive her back to the terminal.

Cosimo · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:03

Tefal said:
90 year old woman from Ipswich?

You are?

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:04

simulatorman said:
You are?

Not me

dannyjo22 · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:23

It's almost always pilot error.

Justintime · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:32

My parents are from there, 20 dollars buys a jawbreaker if you're lucky.. its like 1000 dollars for a pair of sandals lol.

Cleeecooo · 1 Aug 2011 at 10:33

Justintime said:
My parents are from there, 20 dollars buys a jawbreaker if you're lucky.. its like 1000 dollars for a pair of sandals lol.