Lion Air flight from Jakarta to Sumatra crashes with 189 aboard

Lion is the budget airline for Indonesia. 

Just heard on the news, they have confirmed, all on board are lost.  Saying a prayer for the families.

Dear Friend SpikeGary: You and me both!

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I think that we would all be wise to not fly on either Indonesian or Malaysian Airlines.

I never feel safe traveling on those third world airlines. 

189 people dead... You're hilarious. /s

I have a friend who does maintenance on the airlines airplanes. He won't fly any longer.

That tells me something.  

He's also told me that most of the maintenance on these airplanes is contracted out now, He said about a third the work frice knows what its doing, a third dont have a frickin clue and the other third are either half drunk or stoned about half the time.  

He ought ta know he's been in the industry for a long time, He said it used to be much more regulated and regularly policed. Now it's all much more about the profits for the investment groups who own the companies.  

So he stopped flying. 

What airline? I would like to avoid it. 

What airline? I would like to avoid it. 

He's a contact mechanic, he works on the big jets electrical systems so he works all over the country and for many airlines. He's been doing it for the 20 years I've known him.  

He even gets out here to Phoenix from time to time. When he does he brings his guitar and we get together and jam out. Like we used to when we both lived in Melbourne.   Good times !!

When planes start dropping from the sky your friend will have a good point. Let's hope it never happens. 

In the meantime

More than once Koehler has calmed a jittery passenger seated next to him on an airplane by quoting probabilities. You would have to fly on a commercial airline every day for 18,000 years, he tells them, before your chances of being in a crash would exceed 50 percent. You want to know what 18,000 years looks like? Think “twice as far back as the dawn of agriculture.” 

The Canon, A Whirligig Tour Of The Beautiful Basics Of Science

 by Natalie Angier   

pg 84

Let's hope it never happens. 

It's already happening just not so much here yet: 

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Aseman Airlines has had other major crashes. In October 1994, a twin-propeller Fokker F-28 1000 commuter plane operated by the airline crashed near Natanz, 180 miles south of Tehran, killing 66 people. An Aseman Airlines-chartered flight in August 2008, flown by an Itek Air Boeing 737, crashed in Kyrgyzstan, killing 74 people.

Under decades of international sanctions, Iran’s commercial passenger aircraft fleet has aged, with air accidents occurring regularly in recent years.

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Although deaths are down in recent years, in a span of just four-and-a-half weeks at the start of 2018,  three commercial planes crashed  in Iran, Russia, and Nepal, claiming 186 lives.

When compared to driving, flying is still a relatively safe mode of transportation. This is good news when you consider that more than  three billion people  flew on a commercial aircraft in 2013 alone. There were 81 accidents on commercial planes that same year, however, and the passengers involved — especially those on the 16 flights with fatalities — were forever changed.

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2018

Air Niugini Flight 73

• January 13 – Pegasus Airlines Flight 8622 , a Boeing 737-800, skids off the end of the runway at Trabzon Airport , Turkey and comes to rest on a cliff. All 168 passengers and crew survive without injury. The aircraft is written off.
• February 11 – Saratov Airlines Flight 703 , an Antonov An-148, crashes shortly after taking off from Domodedovo International Airport , Russia. All 71 passengers and crew are killed.
• February 18 – Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 , an ATR 72-200 on a domestic flight in Iran, crashes into the Zagros Mountains killing all 60 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
• March 12 – US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 , a Bombardier Q400 on an international flight from Dhaka to Nepal, crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport . 52 of the 71 people on board are killed.
• April 17 – Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 , a Boeing 737-700 en route over Bernville, Pennsylvania , suffers an engine failure at cruise altitude. Some debris enters the fuselage, causing substantial damage to the aircraft and loss of cabin pressure. The crew safely diverts to Philadelphia International Airport . One passenger is killed; another 7 are injured.
• May 18 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 , a Boeing 737-200/Adv, crashes shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba. 112 of the 113 passengers and crew are killed; the sole survivor is seriously injured.
• July 28 - Air Vanuatu Flight 241 , an ATR 72-500, skids off the runway after a flight from Tanna to Port Villa , Vanuatu . Thirteen of the 43 people on board suffer minor injuries.
• July 31 - Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 , an Embraer ERJ-190AR, crashes into wooded terrain in Durango shortly after take-off from Durango International Airport . The aircraft is destroyed, but all 103 occupants survive.
• August 10 - 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident , a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft registered N449QX, is stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with no passengers on board and later crashes on Ketron Island .
• August 16 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8667 , a Boeing 737-800, crash-lands at Ninoy Aquino International Airport amidst heavy monsoon rains. The aircraft skids off the end of the runway. All 165 passengers and crew are unharmed.
• September 1 – Utair Flight 579 , a Boeing 737-800, overshoots the runway and catches fire while landing in Sochi International Airport , injuring 18 people. One airport employee dies of heart attack.
• September 28 – Air Niugini Flight 73 , a Boeing 737-800, lands short of the runway and comes to rest in a lagoon at Chuuk International Airport in the Federated States of Micronesia , one passenger dies whilst 34 others and 12 crew escape without serious injuries.
• October 29 – Lion Air Flight 610 , a Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes shortly after takeoff from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta en route to Depati Amir Airport in Pangkal Pinang , Indonesia . All 189 passengers and crew are presumed dead.

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