Armenian Airlines A-320 crash

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_eu/russia_plane_crash

Plane Crashes in Russia With 100 Aboard
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MOSCOW - An Armenian passenger jet with 100 people aboard crashed early Wednesday off the Black Sea coast shortly before it was to land in the Russian city of Sochi, Russian news agencies reported.
Wreckage from the plane was found not far from the shoreline, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, quoting Russian Emergency Situations spokesman Viktor Beltsov. The Interfax news agency reported that rescue teams at the site pulled the body of a woman from the sea.
The Airbus A-320, which belonged to the Armenian airline Armavia, disappeared from radar screens at about 2:15 a.m. local time, the RIA-Novosti agency reported. It was flying from the Armenian capital Yerevan to Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea in southern Russia, and was carrying 92 passengers — including five children — and eight crew members, ITAR-Tass reported.
Rescuers found parts of the plane nearly four miles from the shore, along with empty lifejackets — an indication that passengers had no time to put them on, ITAR-Tass quoted an unidentified local emergency official as saying. The rescuers were working in a driving rain, Russian news agencies reported.

 

[FN FAL]

Let me guess, the pilot was an ex-fighter pilot or aerobatic performer?

It won't matter, because nobody in America cares what happens in foreign countries, because it doesn't apply here...because of some rule on "lexicons".

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

Cold hearted FN.

 

[LearAv8r]

Let me guess, the pilot was an ex-fighter pilot or aerobatic performer?

It won't matter, because nobody in America cares what happens in foreign countries, because it doesn't apply here...because of some rule on "lexicons".

Yawn.....typical reply from FN FAL

 

[FN FAL]

Cold hearted FN.

Not realllly. Most Americans don't give a fluke about anything that happens outside of the USA and most small town people don't care about what happens out side of their county or town.

 

[mar]

Sort of.

Not realllly. Most Americans don't give a fluke about anything that happens outside of the USA and most small town people don't care about what happens out side of their county or town.

Unless it affects the price of oil or something like that...

Or brain stems in cattle feed...

Or if Fox News tells them they should be concerned about a certain saber-rattling religious fundalmentalist (you pick)...

...then they jump on the band wagon, don't they?

 

[Turtlesfly]

Dude, with your 6,952 posts you must really like hearing yourself speak about absolutely nothing

 

[typhoonpilot]

Very similar to the Gulf Air crash in Bahrain. Flew a perfectly good airplane into the water. At least that's what it would appear to be at first glance, no report of a malfunction, circling at night over water, no horizon, etc.

Condolences to the friend's and families of all who lost loved ones.

Now: how many Americans can even find Armenia and/or Sochi on a map? Hint, Noah's Ark came ashore not far from Yerevan.


TP

 

[Amish RakeFight]

My impression is that most of these "3rd world" airlines (not sure if you would technically label this as such) have poor safety records.

 

[typhoonpilot]

My impression is that most of these "3rd world" airlines (not sure if you would technically label this as such) have poor safety records.

That's because most third world airlines fly third world piece of crap aircraft and/or have very lax maintenance and crew training standards. In this case they were in an Airbus 320, hardly third world aircraft. Armenia is a former Soviet State so the level of education is a bit higher than say, Sudan or Chad.

TP

 

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Unless it affects the price of oil or something like that...

Or brain stems in cattle feed...

Or if Fox News tells them they should be concerned about a certain saber-rattling religious fundalmentalist (you pick)...

...then they jump on the band wagon, don't they?

Oh yeah, that bad 'ol Fox News is a whippin up hysteria again. Yesiree, we're all brainwashed by Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

 

[mar]

What's the Terror Alert Level today? I forgot to check.

Oh yeah, that bad 'ol Fox News is a whippin up hysteria again. Yesiree, we're all brainwashed by Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Uh huh. That's right.

Don't forget those geniuses in the morning too.

Apologies for the digression...sometimes I just can't help myself.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Very similar to the Gulf Air crash in Bahrain. Flew a perfectly good airplane into the water. At least that's what it would appear to be at first glance, no report of a malfunction, circling at night over water, no horizon, etc.

Condolences to the friend's and families of all who lost loved ones.

Now: how many Americans can even find Armenia and/or Sochi on a map? Hint, Noah's Ark came ashore not far from Yerevan.


TP

Well since you mention it, I saw this reported on TV last nite. My guess is 95% don't know where it is at, and most of those didn't know Armenia existed.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002968325_findiraq03.html

Most young Americans can't find Iraq on map

By Robert Dodge
The Dallas Morning News


WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of young adults surveyed cannot find Iraq on a map even after three years of war and more than 2,400 U.S. deaths. And after months of continuing news coverage of Gulf Coast hurricanes, one-third cannot locate Louisiana.
Those were among the findings of a Roper poll released Tuesday by the National Geographic Society. The survey of 510 people, ages 18 to 24, shows young Americans cannot find many countries prominently featured in the news. And their knowledge gap goes beyond locating nations on a map. Many show little interest in critical geographic knowledge and relationships about global politics, economics and language.
The results raised fresh questions about prospects for young Americans to prosper and be secure in a shrinking world, National Geographic officials said. And they underscored the challenges facing the United States if its citizens do not understand the forces shaping global activity, such as trade, natural disasters and armed conflict.
"We are no longer an isolated nation," said Pat Hardy, who taught high-school geography for 30 years in Fort Worth, Texas, and is now social-studies coordinator for the Weatherford (Texas) Independent School District. "It is frightening that people are giving up their lives to fight in another country and there are people here who do not even know where they are going."
The survey follows a similar National Geographic poll in 2002 in which Americans scored second to last on overall geographic knowledge, behind Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
"Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment and isolates us from our world," said John Fahey, National Geographic's chief executive. "Geography is what helps us make sense of our world by showing the connections between people and places."
He urged more education and greater public awareness of geographic literacy.
The latest poll was conducted last December and January. The survey, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, was conducted in the homes of respondents and each lasted nearly a half-hour.
"Young Americans are alarmingly ignorant of the relationships between places that give context to world events," the National Geographic Society concluded.
For instance, 71 percent surveyed do not know that the United States is the world's largest exporter of goods and services. And 74 percent believe English is the primary language spoken by the most people in the world. It is actually Mandarin Chinese, although English is the principal global language of commerce.
If there was one hopeful result, the poll found two-thirds of respondents had an understanding of map features and could use one to navigate.

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