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Postby ozzy72 » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:39 am

I can barely believe that it is 20 years ago today that British Airtours Boeing 737 flight KT328 crashed killing 2 crew and 53 passengers. It seems like only yesterday :(
Inspite of everything we still don't have smokehoods on flights which could be the difference between life and death ::)
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Re: KT328

Postby Hagar » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:38 am

Don't do this to me Mark. For one minute I thought there had been another disaster. ::)

Inspite of everything we still don't have smokehoods on flights which could be the difference between life and death

If every safety recommendation over the last 20 years were to be implemented you wouldn't be able to afford the price of the ticket.
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Re: KT328

Postby C » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:02 pm

One of the first things I remember seeing on the television. A horrible incident...
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Re: KT328

Postby H » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:41 pm

...If every safety recommendation over the last 20 years were to be implemented you wouldn't be able to afford the price of the ticket.

Or get the plane off the ground.
[Actually, maybe that should be, "or get the plane allowed off the ground" :'(]
In the early years of flight, many people had negative thoughts of flight and wouldn't set foot near an airplane. My grandmother (to my knowledge, she never boarded a plane) told me that, when she was young, many people said flight was an unnatural venture and recited, "they shall go up but they shall come down!" She'd repeat this when a crash was reported in the news.
Didn't stop me, though. Look how many automobile crashes there have been; didn't stop her from getting in one on numerous occasions ::).
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