More "plunging" aircraft!

[TheGreenGoblin]

Aircraft experiences pressurization anomaly and the crew expedite a controlled descent to a safe altitude and we get this plunge panic drivel from the press again. Most depressing!

Passengers text loved ones as plane plunges 30,000ft in seven minutes

[Woody]

Aircraft experiences pressurization anomaly and the crew expedite a controlled descent to a safe altitude and we get this plunge panic drivel from the press again. Most depressing!

Passengers text loved ones as plane plunges 30,000ft in seven minutes

Good job American Sky Gods were flying the aircraft

[Boac]

Yes - if it were a different quality of pilot heaven knows what would have happened. Not forgetting, of course, for those readers of the Independent, that we always 'plunge' 30,000, but in a more sedate 20 minutes, every flight.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

They should try it in 30 seconds

Should stop the texting BS also.

Capt Roland Pulfrew

[Boac]

Ah - the old 'Tac Dive' - standing on the rudder pedals - great fun unless you are over land........... when the fun wears off at the subsequent bollocking. Never tried it in my 737, though.

[Pontius Navigator]

Plunging 30,000 feet not recommended over Switzerland.

[Slasher]

Or that bit between whatsisplace and Tashkent.

[Pontius Navigator]

Now you mention it; we had parachutes with automatic opening. Ours were set to 5,000m but the pilot's bang seat were 10k. Bit of a hard landing for Biggles.

[4mastacker]

Were any schools, hospitals, lunatic asylums narrowly avoided?

[Boac]

Yes, all within 100 miles.

[ribrash]

They missed me so thats the lunatic asylum sorted.

[llondel]

Plunging 30,000 feet not recommended over Switzerland.

Doesn't that depend on your starting altitude? Plunging 30,000ft anywhere in the world if you start at 29,000ft is likely to end badly.

[ian16th]

This is when terms like 'terrain clearance' become important.

[Pontius Navigator]

Llondel, based on most civil aircraft flying below 40k .. . .

[ExSp33db1rd]

This is when terms like 'terrain clearance' become important.

Cat II ( low visibility) into Zurich one night. Just establishing on the ILS we got terrain warning, "Pull up, pull up".

"When in doubt lash out " and on the go around the F/O asked why, as, he said, we were established correctly ? Never heard of a false glide slope ? I replied. I asked ATC if they’d been monitoring out approach, and they admitted that they hadn’t, but had turned us on a bit close and there was a "pimple" nearby that might have triggered our terrain warning. I suggested that if they monitored our next approach, and I also considered us correctly established on the ILS, then I might ignore a subsequent warning. Didn’t happen, but y'canna be tooo carrrreful. ( n,est ce pas ?)

[fin]

The totally deplorable state of contemporary "journalism" is so pervasive that I am making sincere efforts to break my long standing addiction to "news".

My take-away from this totally average reporting is that if they get so much wrong on a topic I know, aviation, how much crap are the peddling when they speak of Economics, Education, Foreign Affairs etc.

As for the antics of the bottom feeders in Hollywood etc, who cares if they get that right or not.

*Mentally insert your own smiley face here*

[Pontius Navigator]

fin, join the club.

There is an adage for interviewers 'don't ask a question for which you don't know the answer '. Sadly that means the only reason for them asking you a question it to authenticate their opinion.

The corollary is that if they don't know the answer don't ask the question.

[ian16th]

Every time I have read a news report of an event that I have witnessed, the news report is different to my recollection of the event.

[jimtherev]

The secret, of course is to learn not just journalese, but the particular perversion of journalese practiced by the so-called news outlet, then attempt to write one's press statement in that language. Works ok if you're only supplying a small number of 'clients' ... life's too short.
If all else fails, one needs to keep it short, keep it simple, and use short words. Most journos are too busy/lazy/spaced out to manufacture stuff if it's all spelt out for them. Let's put it down to deadlines, eh?

[Woody]

On for C16