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Bad news again, however "only" 9 died. It lost both engines, some say it was low on fuel. Details here

It's kind of scary for me, as I'll have a long haul to Europe next week, and land @ Schiphol...

gojozoom wrote:

QUOTE (gojozoom @ Feb 25 2009, 08:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Bad news again, however "only" 9 died. It lost both engines, some say it was low on fuel. Details here

It's kind of scary for me, as I'll have a long haul to Europe next week, and land @ Schiphol...

The crash is certainly the news of the day here in the Netherlands. The Dutch media has been totally silent about possible causes though. At the moment all anyone is saying is thank god so many passengers survived, and to speculate about the accident rate of the airline involved. I imagine the media frenzy will be long gone and forgotten before we hear about the actual cause of the tragedy.

interesting when you look at the engine in the picture, it dosen't have much blade damage that you would expect from an engine that is turning under its own power. and again as they say the lack of fire tends to suggest that there may not have been much fuel left in the tanks. it will be interesting to see what caused this one.

RIP to those killed. could have been much worse

oh a side note, not to hijack this thread, has anyone heard what the offical cause of the BA 777 crash last year? last i heard they had almost said ice in the fuel caused it.

How can you say ONLY 9 died. that still 9 people's family's with out loved ones!!!!!

gojozoom wrote:

QUOTE (gojozoom @ Feb 26 2009, 08:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Bad news again, however "only" 9 died. It lost both engines, some say it was low on fuel. Details here

It's kind of scary for me, as I'll have a long haul to Europe next week, and land @ Schiphol...

It should actually be kind of comforting for you - major airports do have planes drop out of the sky on approach every now and then, but has a major airport ever had it happen twice in 2 weeks ?

Gary

flightnse wrote:

QUOTE (flightnse @ Feb 26 2009, 01:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

How can you say ONLY 9 died. that still 9 people's family's with out loved ones!!!!!

If you consider the fact that only 7% of the passengers died, it certainly could've been a lot worse. People die all the time, and I hate to sound insensitive but these things happen.

VAC has a point, Disasters like this could be alot worse and we are lucky that these things dont happen more often.

R.I.P to those that died.
I'm glad it wasn't any worse.