Commercial aviation is one of the safest forms of transportation, and accidents that lead to fatalities are incredibly rare. Unfortunately yesterday was an exception, as we saw a fatal plane crash in Tanzania.
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How awful. I cannot imagine what it must be like to be trapped under water in a plane just waiting to drown... Just terrible.
I've flown on PW a few times; the saying was, you knew the flight would be late, but you also knew you'd get there alive. (In contrast to some other Tanzanian carriers, i.e. CQ.)
Unfortunately, they still had a very "wild west" approach to a lot of things - for example, no tracking capability, not even internally, so it was anyone's guess when a particular flight would operate. It seems this may have been extended to what presumably should have been a go-around.
Hopefully this can get Tanzania to modernize their airfields, many of which are little more than strips of pavement, soas to prevent this from happening again.
The idiot in that tweet calling this a good job is absurd. The plane is literally under water, people died and he’s pressing the airline? Clearly not a ‘precision’ landing…
Nope. If you take every mean of transportation in consideration, the elevator is the one where least people die.
Photos don't show damage to the hull. Wonder how long it took for flight attendants to open the back door. Were they waiting for flight deck instruction that cost them time?
As always many questions to answer
Have flown with them a few times.
Just saddening to read the recounts of how some perished.
Condolences to all those involved.
Here here on CQ given their history and my experience. One thunderstorm in a C208 on approach was enough to sadly avoid Tanzania for me...Also, they operate the 208 as a single pilot where as FedAir and Airlink Lodgelink (RIP) were 2 pilots
He obviously learned well from republicans and fox news how to always suck up to corporations and the rich.
In his next tweet he will blame the victims for the accident and for dying.
Sound familiar?
Thoughts exactly, that lake is absolutely infested with crocs... surprised that didn't play a factor. 🙁