RE: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread Matthew Small
ay Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:53 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down. My Dad is/was a mechanic for USAir. He just got laid off, since USAir is going bankrupt. They outsourced his job to an outside company that pays

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread Larry C. Lyons
None of them. The plane that went down in Greece had been cited several times for incidents, the most recent one prior to the crash was last December where it lost pressure. High gas prices, older aircraft etc terrible maintenance practices (its easier to slip the inspector $500 than to spend $150

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread Ray Champagne
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:02 AM >>To: CF-Community >>Subject: Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down. >> >> >>>Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because of the cost >>>involved airlines are struggling to ke

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread G
>> >> Is there anyone who does NOT think this is scarily strange? > > Yes. > I don't think it's that strange either. > >> Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because of the cost >> involved airlines are struggling to keep their ageing, and now >> dangerous fleets in the air? > > Isn

RE: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:02 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down. > > > Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because of the cost &

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-25 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Vivec wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/bz9dn > > Is there anyone who does NOT think this is scarily strange? Yes. > Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because of the cost > involved airlines are struggling to keep their ageing, and now > dangerous fleets in the air? Isn't the struggl

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-24 Thread Matthew Blatchley
And then the mechanics' all go on strike too. Maybe they now more than the rest of us, and the airlines won't pay for it because they need the help from the Gov to help cover with the cost...which is a scary thought in itself :( ~~

Re: Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-24 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> http://tinyurl.com/bz9dn > Is there anyone who does NOT think this is scarily > strange? > This totally goes against every long held statistic about > airline travel safety. > Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because > of the cost > involved airlines are struggling to keep thei

Fifth flight for the month goes down.

2005-08-24 Thread Vivec
http://tinyurl.com/bz9dn Is there anyone who does NOT think this is scarily strange? This totally goes against every long held statistic about airline travel safety. Maybe planes are simply all getting very old, but because of the cost involved airlines are struggling to keep their ageing, and no