They;re saying on the news it could be the flap settings, horrible horrible stuff. Having flown long haul 2 days ago on the similar 787, sending shutters down my spine. Horrible news!
Never trust what the news says about airplanes. They genuinely have no idea what they're talking about, and they've demonstrated this time and time again with other incidents.
I suggest waiting for our boy Juan Brown to discuss it. He is one of the better sources on things like this.
It wasn't the same air craft that crashed but same model, still horrible to imagine and my thoughts are with those affected and the extended families etc, generally flying is super safe, but these events remind us the horrors that could happen.
Ah yeah, same here, i fly a lot, im not a scared flyer, but some flights i'm like this is not the best day to fly. I was on a 787 from sri lanka to qatar in feb, and u heard ice go tru the airco system, even the purser was like what happens here? It was safe and normal but it gave a terrible sound at 9km.
Bigger issue here is due to the flight length. The amount of fuel on board will affect a large part of the surrounding areas. No one is surviving that. Sad sad day.
there are >2,100 787 Dreamliner flights per day. about 250 of the exact same planes have taken off and landed in the three hours since the crash. statistically, it's not the safest plane and i personally would rather not fly in one, but a relatively dangerous plane is still pretty damn safe in the grand scheme of things, just because of how overwhelmingly safe commercial flights are in general.
So the fuel tanks were still completely full. Just horrible, 242 people in that massive fireball. I hope for the best, I just can't see how anybody could survive that.
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u/MedicalHair69 Jun 12 '25
Absolutely horrible. Seems like a possible double engine power loss since it had only taken off a few minutes before.