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mojo
08-31-2001, 04:18 AM
if you're worried, then go here http://www.amigoingdown.com/ . plug in your flight info and it gives you stats. i didnt use my email or anything and it worked, btw. my flight to hawaii came up pretty good, too :D
topane
08-31-2001, 04:56 AM
Hehehe...I like the "Am I going down?" button.
welfareloser
08-31-2001, 05:42 AM
k, so i just need to plug in the info of every plane that is going to fly over my head for the next 60 years... *shudder*
Markel
08-31-2001, 07:58 AM
Originally posted by welfareloser
k, so i just need to plug in the info of every plane that is going to fly over my head for the next 60 years... *shudder*
HAH! At Willard Airport??!! I live directly under an approach to OHARE!!!!!
psycho-
08-31-2001, 09:49 AM
Hehehehe...check out China airlines and Korean airlines!


Between Taipei and Los Angeles:

China airlines - 1 in 1,230,258 using their Airbus planes
United Airlines- 1 in 15,875,277 using their Boeing 747
Singapore Airlines - 1 in 7,937,638 using their Boeing 747


Between Seoul and Los Angeles:

Korean Airlines - 1 in 177,047 using their Boeing 747
United Airlines - 1 in 1,905,033 using their Boeing 747
Asiana Airlines - 1 in 514,873 using their Boeing 747
Nanotech9
08-31-2001, 09:52 AM
hehe, i live directly under aproach to Will Rodgers here in OKC. doh.
The Happy Squirrel
08-31-2001, 10:03 AM
thats crazy
hehehe
psycho-
08-31-2001, 01:34 PM
Speaking of which...

I have a friend who's a flight attendent for American Airlines. She was telling me that American doesn't display "AIRS" satellite map information anymore during flight anymore. (for those of you who have flow, you probably have seen the map displays)

Those maps display altitude, windspeed, direction, time to destination, etc.

Anyways, she noted the reason American Airlines stopped was because of the 1995 incident where an airplane crashed in Columbia during descent. Apperantly, the people watched in horror as their plane crash on screen and couldn't do anything about it. (the map showed them flying into a mountainside, as well as altitude drop.)

Apperantly, there was another incident where an airplane crashed during takeoff, and all the people just watched the TV screen to see their impending doom. (can't recall which one it was)

Well, the day after she told me that, I left to return to the US, and boy was I suprised to see the AIRS map being used on United Airliens during takeoff and descent. The first thought that occured to me was the thought of what would happen if there was an accident.....


SCARY....
Cheesypuff
08-31-2001, 02:26 PM
I have flown over seas like 50 bajillion times and I'm still alive!
The Happy Squirrel
08-31-2001, 02:26 PM
heheh
just for the hell f it i tired random flight to see what the lowest i could get was

its was a flight from lebanon to isreal
the odds were 1 in 1,286

hehe
Markel
08-31-2001, 02:42 PM
Originally posted by Cheesypuff
I have flown over seas like 50 bajillion times and I'm still alive!
That's amazing (considering all the airline "food" you must have consumed!) ;)
ProMinx
08-31-2001, 06:11 PM
Originally posted by Cheesypuff
I have flown over seas like 50 bajillion times and I'm still alive!

"You are, by far, the most interesting single-serving friend I have ever met."