HULK JUST WANT TO SMASH!
And on a very sad note; this is from The Irish Independent this morning:
122 Die in Jet Tragedy
Brakes blamed after plane overshoots runway and hits barrier.
AT least 122 people were killed early yesterday when a Russian passenger jet skidded off a wet Siberian runway, smashed through a concrete barrier and burst into flames.
Fourteen of the passengers were children on a holiday trip to Lake Baikal, one of Russia's most popular tourist sites.
A spokesman for S7, the airline operating the aircraft, said it was not clear if there were more children among the bodies retrieved from the burning fuselage of the Airbus A310 that had just landed in the city of Irkutsk.
Local emergency officials said 12 passengers were unaccounted for and 58 were being treated in hospital for trauma, burns and smoke inhalation.
The plane carrying 204 people apparently landed safely but failed to brake and crashed through a 6ft (1.8m) concrete barrier and into a complex of garages.
Preliminary data gathered by the commission investigating the crash indicate that the braking system on the Airbus failed, Russian news agencies reported last night.
The impact crumpled the front half of the plane and set off two explosions which engulfed the aircraft in flames.
"It was awful. I saw people burning, they were burning," Margarita Svetlova, one of the survivors, told First Channel, the state-controlled television station.
"I probably lost consciousness for a minute ... I unfastened my seat belt. I ran and started shouting and swearing, looking for an exit. The inflatable escape chute wouldn't inflate, but I jumped all the same. I was lucky, I just hurt my leg a bit."
Officials said the only surviving air stewardess had opened an emergency exit at the rear of the plane, allowing 10 passengers to escape, while firefighters rescued several others.
Twelve surviving passengers had already been sent home, they added.
Flames
Images recorded by a witness on a mobile phone showed flames and thick black smoke billowing from the plane as rescuers clambered on top and cut away parts of the fuselage.
Another witness, Mikhail Yegeryov, told NTV television: "I saw smoke coming from the aircraft. People were already walking out who were charred, injured, burnt.
"I asked a person who was in the Airbus what happened, and he said the plane had landed on the Tarmac but didn't brake. The cabin then burst into flames."
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said the pilot had radioed to the air-traffic control tower saying the aircraft had landed safely, but was suddenly cut off.
"The aircraft veered off the runway. There was rain, the landing strip was wet. So we'll have to check ... the technical condition of the aircraft," he told state television.
A spokesman for S7 said the plane had been regularly maintained and met all safety standards.
Russian President Putin conveyed his condolences to friends and relatives of the victims and declared today a national day of mourning.
Russian authorities set up an improvised information centre at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, where friends and relatives of the victims were waiting for news of their loved ones last night.
Irkutsk is 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) east of Moscow.
S7, which was previously called Sibir Airlines, grew out of the Siberian arm of Aeroflot, the state airline, after the fall of the Soviet Union and is now Russia's second biggest carrier.
The Russian Prosecutor General's office said a technical fault or human error were the two most likely explanations for the disaster - the second in Russia in as many months.
In May an Armenian Airlines Airbus crashed in stormy weather off the Black Sea coast of Russia as it prepared to land, killing all 113 people on board. ( The Times, London)
Jeremy Page
And on a very sad note; this is from The Irish Independent this morning:
122 Die in Jet Tragedy
Brakes blamed after plane overshoots runway and hits barrier.
AT least 122 people were killed early yesterday when a Russian passenger jet skidded off a wet Siberian runway, smashed through a concrete barrier and burst into flames.
Fourteen of the passengers were children on a holiday trip to Lake Baikal, one of Russia's most popular tourist sites.
A spokesman for S7, the airline operating the aircraft, said it was not clear if there were more children among the bodies retrieved from the burning fuselage of the Airbus A310 that had just landed in the city of Irkutsk.
Local emergency officials said 12 passengers were unaccounted for and 58 were being treated in hospital for trauma, burns and smoke inhalation.
The plane carrying 204 people apparently landed safely but failed to brake and crashed through a 6ft (1.8m) concrete barrier and into a complex of garages.
Preliminary data gathered by the commission investigating the crash indicate that the braking system on the Airbus failed, Russian news agencies reported last night.
The impact crumpled the front half of the plane and set off two explosions which engulfed the aircraft in flames.
"It was awful. I saw people burning, they were burning," Margarita Svetlova, one of the survivors, told First Channel, the state-controlled television station.
"I probably lost consciousness for a minute ... I unfastened my seat belt. I ran and started shouting and swearing, looking for an exit. The inflatable escape chute wouldn't inflate, but I jumped all the same. I was lucky, I just hurt my leg a bit."
Officials said the only surviving air stewardess had opened an emergency exit at the rear of the plane, allowing 10 passengers to escape, while firefighters rescued several others.
Twelve surviving passengers had already been sent home, they added.
Flames
Images recorded by a witness on a mobile phone showed flames and thick black smoke billowing from the plane as rescuers clambered on top and cut away parts of the fuselage.
Another witness, Mikhail Yegeryov, told NTV television: "I saw smoke coming from the aircraft. People were already walking out who were charred, injured, burnt.
"I asked a person who was in the Airbus what happened, and he said the plane had landed on the Tarmac but didn't brake. The cabin then burst into flames."
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said the pilot had radioed to the air-traffic control tower saying the aircraft had landed safely, but was suddenly cut off.
"The aircraft veered off the runway. There was rain, the landing strip was wet. So we'll have to check ... the technical condition of the aircraft," he told state television.
A spokesman for S7 said the plane had been regularly maintained and met all safety standards.
Russian President Putin conveyed his condolences to friends and relatives of the victims and declared today a national day of mourning.
Russian authorities set up an improvised information centre at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, where friends and relatives of the victims were waiting for news of their loved ones last night.
Irkutsk is 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) east of Moscow.
S7, which was previously called Sibir Airlines, grew out of the Siberian arm of Aeroflot, the state airline, after the fall of the Soviet Union and is now Russia's second biggest carrier.
The Russian Prosecutor General's office said a technical fault or human error were the two most likely explanations for the disaster - the second in Russia in as many months.
In May an Armenian Airlines Airbus crashed in stormy weather off the Black Sea coast of Russia as it prepared to land, killing all 113 people on board. ( The Times, London)
Jeremy Page
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and as i get older, i do tend to get more nervous..
my mothers advice was always "If the plane is going down, put your head
between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye"
doesn't help calm my nerves either