Post #387,868
3/24/14 8:26:20 AM
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Airbus. Again.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- A Malaysia Airlines flight to South Korea made an emergency landing in Hong Kong early Monday after its main electrical generator stopped working, the airline said.
The plane, an Airbus A330-300, landed in Hong Kong safely around 3 a.m., Malaysia Airlines said, and the 271 passengers on board have been transferred onto flights with other airlines.
The reason for the diversion of Malaysia Airlines Flight 066 was "an inoperative aircraft generator, which supplies normal electrical power," the company said. Electrical power continued to be supplied by the plane's auxiliary power unit, it said.
Malaysia Airlines is in the international spotlight following the disappearance more than two weeks ago of one of its passenger jets with 239 people on board. That plane, Flight 370, was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished over Southeast Asia.
http://www.cnn.com/2...verted/index.html
Flying a Eurotrash Airbus is bad enough. Flying a Malaysia Airlines Eurotrash Airbus is even worse.
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Post #387,869
3/24/14 10:13:19 AM
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Re: Airbus. Again.
Your take on Airbus, regarding which I am not remotely competent to opine, puts me in mind of a bumper sticker I saw thirty or forty years ago, presumably affixed by a Harley afficionado: "I'd rather see my sister in a Mexican whorehouse than my brother on a Japanese bike."
cordially,
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Post #387,870
3/24/14 10:23:47 AM
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The short version:
"I'd rather eat worms than ride a Jap bike"
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Post #387,871
3/24/14 11:05:39 AM
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I used to have a bumper-sticker of similar stripe.
If ain't Boeing, I ain't going.
Although, I'll have to revise that now since they've started farming so damned much out and putting a bunch of plastic on their airframes, too. In all seriousness, when I book a flight for myself or my family, I never look at the airline. While there's no absolute guarantee that the aircraft listed when you purchase the ticket will be the actual aircraft for the flight, it happens frequently enough for me to choose the flight by the aircraft listed. If it's an Airbus Anything I won't buy the ticket.
It's not jingoistic nationalism that makes me not like the Airbus. The biggest thing for me with Airbus is the idiotic engineering decision to not allow the pilot to fly the plane. Sure, Boeing's all have fly-by-wire, too, but Boeing allows the pilot to disable it making it possible for the pilot to actually fly the aircraft.
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Post #387,911
3/25/14 6:21:04 PM
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Apropos.. silence from CBS; have to organize an intrusion.
That (original) video w/Sully ... Made Your Case, cold, in a very-few minutes.
Just the Obvious sanity of Linked-real-control stalks/visually, is all a sane person needs to See.
I Want to find a way to get that from some way=back archive (which lore I have-not. Yet.)
Chicken and chicken-shit Suits are a major cause of the rampant dumbth in this depraved/dying kultur.
Rarely have I seen so crystal-clear evidence of that common phenom, as this flic and its instant-editing..)
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Post #387,910
3/25/14 6:13:07 PM
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Hogs (Harleys) -vs- actually maneuverable bikes.. 'tis
as permanent an impasse as any Cold War. Stasis rulez.
(Brings to mind {Thurber? was it} Most people live lives of quiet desperation.)
{sigh} ... Ooops!
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Post #387,914
3/25/14 7:12:47 PM
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But I wouldn't turn down a Buell
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Drew
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Post #387,943
3/26/14 5:25:48 PM
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I would.
You ever ridden one?
Though it is stripped down and pretty peppy, it is a bear to race compared to the Jap bikes of similar repute.
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greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #387,995
3/27/14 6:01:41 PM
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OK. So what exactly is the problem?
A part broke, the backups worked and the plane landed safely. Some things will eventually fail, no matter the manufacturer. I don't really see the reason to slate Airbus for this one.
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