Recent Events in Japan - Earthquake + Air-Crash

Jokester said:
I did laugh at this when the story broke this morning on Sky News

“Japan are 8 hours ahead of us so we’re still waiting on details to come through”
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I’m trying to understand what Sky mean by that, but I really don’t.

Are they saying they need to wait 8 hours to catch up?

Are they saying that it was late in the day for Japan so they’re now having dinner?
 
Mad_Jay said:
Whilst I'm sure it will all come out in an investigation on what happened to cause this accident and its a huge shame we've lost the lives of 5 coast guard rescue workers, this has been a huge advert for the safety of the A350.

Though I can imagine this is also down to the punctuality and carefullness of the Japanese citizen.

You see the videos of the passengers coming down the slides and not a single one is pushing around or clinging onto luggage. They all did as they were told and everyone safely evacuated.

I imagine if this happened here in the UK or in the States it would be a different story.
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They were talking about this on a press review last night they said that when there is a safety briefing on what do in an emergency etc everyone there actually sits down and listens no-one talks to their neighbour or reads a magazine or fiddles with their phone like we would, then get into a blind panic when an actual emergency happens because no-one bothered to listen to the briefing.
 
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toyotacelicagt4 said:
Apparently everyone on the plane was evacuated within 90 seconds. I bet you wouldn't get that with most other airlines/nation
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Thats the average aimed for every passenger plane in a evacuate emergency. Cause its not like all planes only carry their own nationality lol.
 
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toyotacelicagt4 said:
Apparently everyone on the plane was evacuated within 90 seconds. I bet you wouldn't get that with most other airlines/nation
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It's even more impressive as the crew and passengers were all completly unaware of the impending disaster and no one would have been primed to react and then the plane was less than ideally positioned with half the exits blocked by fire. Odds were really against them, great job by crew and passengers.
 
bingham67 said:
Crazy this stuff can happen in 2024, could have been far worse fortunately it looks like a textbook evacuation for the main airline.
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I was partly listening to a YouTube video about a near miss incident in the USA, they have some unmanned airports that large carriers use and rely on the pilots listening to each other etc as there's no tower.
 
Mr Joshua said:
I was partly listening to a YouTube video about a near miss incident in the USA, they have some unmanned airports that large carriers use and rely on the pilots listening to each other etc as there's no tower.
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nypost.com

Planes narrowly avoid head-on runway crash in Colorado after pilot’s last-second maneuver

Miscommunication in the air nearly led to a head-on runway crash in Colorado last year — but tragedy was avoided after a last-second maneuver by a JetBlue pilot that damaged the plane but cau…
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Looks like the coast guard plane was asked to hold in a holding position just before the runway by the tower and for what ever reason didn't. Horrible accident, glad most got away with their lives. Looks like three chutes were deployed, two on the left, front and rear and one front right. They did well getting everyone off safe and the plane also did well staying in one peice long enough for the evacuation whilst damaged and on fire.
 
Looks like last person off the Japan plane was 18 minutes after the crash, not 90 seconds.
Coastguard plane had no clearance to be on runway as ATC transcripts show but was lined up for takeoff.
Red hold lights on this runway were out of service, shouldn't have mattered though.
 
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