I usually think a bit of turbulence makes for a fun ride on a commercial flight. But I don’t like it quite this much.
It takes a lot of turbulence to bounce the widebodied 767 around to the tune of 27 injuries. Continental Airlines Flight 128 (Rio de Janeiro to Houston) took its pummeling at about [...]
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27 Injured in Jet’s Rough Ride
Anti-Airbus Rhetoric Equals Ignorance
There’s something I need to make clear to all the irrational, jingoistic would-be aviation pundits out there: Airbus aircraft are no more dangerous than their Boeing counterparts. Because of the recent crashes of Air France Flight 447 and Yemenia Flight 626, the Interwebz are ablaze with ignorant armchair aeronautical engineers insisting that the consecutive crashes [...]
