South Korea Jeju air plane crash

Diddums · Tuesday at 17:52

This is Hurfdurf levels of stupid, I'm loving it

Jokester · Tuesday at 17:57

Looks like we can expect some photos of Korean airport officials with bowed heads (or is it only a Japanese thing?). Been reported in Korean media apparently that this was known about as a safety risk and that there was a recommendation to remove it.

Diddums · Tuesday at 18:00

Jokester said:
Looks like we can expect some photos of Korean airport officials with bowed heads (or is it only a Japanese thing?). Been reported in Korean media apparently that this was known about as a safety risk and that there was a recommendation to remove it.

I'll be amazed if there wasn't a recommendation at some point. These things are always tricky, it doesn't matter how many safety features you implement, an auditor needs to earn his bread and will find stuff. Not denying that this isn't a valid recommendation ofc, but it might well be 20 years old and mentioned as a P3 in a H&S audit.

jeffspuds · Tuesday at 18:01

danlightbulb said:
London city appears to have this structure at one end (the other end has a runoff that ends in water). There's a definite curve to this wall, I wonder if it's designed to take at least some sort of impact?

looks faimilar off gta v

200sols · Tuesday at 18:05

Werewolf said:
Re London city airport, trying to claim it's like a larger airport is a bit odd, as IIRC London City airport is quite restricted in the types of aircraft that can use it. Not all airports are rated for all aicraft and a lot of airports with immovable objects or special circumstances (IE maintains or the sea at the end of the runway) require additional training and special approaches.

It's not odd at all, if this type of incident happened there it would be an even worse disaster. City airport is still rated for decent sized jets. I wouldnt fancy being there with for example an E190 coming off the end of the runway at 150mph.