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Old 17th Sep 2023, 10:40
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Bob Viking
 
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Double standards

Is it because the aircraft in question is Italian that we are allowing more latitude for people to spout absolute horsesh1t?!

Every single engine jet in history has had a ‘dead zone’ on every take off it has ever done (unless taking off from a ludicrously long runway). There will be a period where an engine failure will leave ejection as the only option. Not enough runway to land back on, and not enough energy to make it back to an alternate landing surface.

If, as the video suggests, this was an engine failure at low altitude (bird strike seems a very likely reason) there was absolutely nothing the pilot could do. If he’d stayed with the aircraft he would be another fatality. He couldn’t have steered it anywhere.

If we are looking to blame the age and type of aircraft then you probably need to scrap every Hawk and F16 (and most training aircraft) in the world as well.

This accident is simply a case of desperately bad luck and timing with a tragic outcome.

BV
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