Air India flight bound for London crashes in northwestern India

[Quag]

A photo taken and transmitted just before takeoff shows a family that was relocating to London.

Dr. Komi Vyas, Dr. Prateek Joshi and their three children.

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That is truly heart breaking

 

[Metric Mouse]

Good thing I sold all my Boeing stock a few months ago

Ouch!

It's still higher than it was then.

You'd have been better off keeping it and selling it now.

 

[Desert Storm]

Ouch!

It's still higher than it was then.

You'd have been better off keeping it and selling it now.

I bought it around $150/share and sold for $180/share.
So yeah, should have held it for longer, but I still made good cash on it.

Right now I might wait for it to drop again to around $170-180 and buy some more

 

[Metric Mouse]

I bought it around $150/share and sold for $180/share.
So yeah, should have held it for longer, but I still made good cash on it.

Right now I might wait for it to drop again to around $170-180 and buy some more

You missed out a lot. Could have doubled your profits, roughly. Not a "good thing" to have sold when you did.

But if you are happy, then that matters more than reality, for sure.

 

[Desert Storm]

You missed out a lot. Could have doubled your profits, roughly. Not a "good thing" to have sold when you did.

But if you are happy, then that matters more than reality, for sure

I dont know anyone who can time the markets 100% all of the time

 

[rhinefire]

One survivor walked away. Given the fiery explosion on impact it is impossible to know how.

 

[ASHES]

Jeff Ostroff talks about what might have caused the crash. 13 minutes.

 

[trixare4kids]

now there are reports, that 2 persons have survived ...

It's a miracle.

 

[JohnRawls]

I can’t tell by looking at the video.

Attached is the checklist for the 787.

Maybe our resident airline pilots will chime in.

https://toulouse747.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Boeing-787-Checkliste.pdf

@Allan
As much as I understand when I talked to a pilot friend.

Boeing doesn't have security against somebody changing flap position on take off drastically only to some degree while Airbus have full "Alpha lock" that prevents that because 1 hypothesized scenario was that somebody accidentally changes the flaps position instead of lets say bringing the wheels up which might be the case here.

 

[Atomic Kid]

Jeff Ostroff talks about what might have caused the crash. 13 minutes.

Ostroff is missing the forest for the trees. This new video of the takeoff roll is a bit grainy, but it appears that the flaps on the aircraft were fully retracted before lifting off the runway, and the landing gear remained down after liftoff. And if indeed that was the case, there was no way whatsoever that plane would stay airborne, even with both engines operating at full thrust. The question is how that happened.

 

[Atomic Kid]

@Allan
As much as I understand when I talked to a pilot friend.

Boeing doesn't have security against somebody changing flap position on take off drastically only to some degree while Airbus have full "Alpha lock" that prevents that because 1 hypothesized scenario was that somebody accidentally changes the flaps position instead of lets say bringing the wheels up which might be the case here.

I believe the 787 Dreamliner has a warning system that will alert the pilots when the aircraft is not properly configured for takeoff. What may have happened there, I suppose, will have to wait until both black boxes and the CVR are recovered and analyzed

 

[Atomic Kid]

Ouch!

It's still higher than it was then.

You'd have been better off keeping it and selling it now.

Stock prices and trading? Is that all you can think of in the wake of such a tragedy?

 

[Metric Mouse]

Stock prices and trading? Is that all you can think of in the wake of such a tragedy?

Weird... didn't the other poster bring it up? That was their first thought, not mine.

What the actual ****?

 

[sanman]

 

[JohnRawls]

I believe the 787 Dreamliner has a warning system that will alert the pilots when the aircraft is not properly configured for takeoff. What may have happened there, I suppose, will have to wait until both black boxes and the CVR are recovered and analyzed

Yeah all planes do have that but the question is what happens after. My friend said that the plane wouldn't take off or would take off much later if it was misconfigured from the start. Airbus prevents you from moving the flaps on takeoff until you reach xxx speed while in a Boeing that will start annoying you only at a certain point if you moved them.