Air safety expert says think twice before booking with budget airlines. Pilot asks passengers "to pray"!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-26/aviation-expert-urg…
Do you think budget airlines such as AirAsia are less safe?
Another Air Safety Investigation for AirAsia
tranter on 26/06/2017 - 20:54
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I've spent more than a few years working with aerospace multinationals and have a bit of an inside appreciation on how different countries approach aircraft maintenance.. I have no problems getting on AirAsia planes. I'm always a little nervous about flying on US airlines though.
If anything, the Asian view to seniority was always a bigger problem than maintenance… The crews were always less willing to call out a captain's mistake… Not so much a case of grinding the threads out of screwjack nuts because they were too cheap to change the grease more often than the legal minimum.
Need to wait and see what the cause was - whether AA's fault or something external.
AirAsia is almost like a franchise in that AirAsia X is not Air Asia Indonesia as such. One only has to look at Indonesia's airline crash record to see why they should be avoided. I'd fly with X but not Indonesia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/indonesi…
Even the worst airlines though are still miles better safety than driving. People don't pay attention, don't indicate, drive drunk or affected by lack of sleep, drugs etc.
the telegraph is just slightly better than clickbait
Indonesian airlines are trash. An article is easier for people to read then linking them to all the accidents they've had in the past few decades along with bans.
I was noticing the same thing. There's been a lot of bad news coming from Asian airlines lately. And it's not exactly a stretch to say the safety systems and training and maintenance levels are lesser compared to here
Can't generalise by budget or non-budget. Rather you should look at the overall rating. Some of the best and the worst have been seen in deals on OzBargain, e.g. Pegasus for a bad airline. AA is relatively benign compared to the ones at the bottom.
http://www.traveller.com.au/airline-safety-worlds-safest-air…
if the air asia plane had crashed then at least they'd be first to the crash site.
But I'm sure they would have charged a crash fee, buried in the fine print that nobody reads
Maybe their booking default travel insurance that is tricky to click out of, would finally come in handy :)
Air Safety Expert, or idiot? What sort of expert jumps to conclusions when an investigation hasn't yet been completed? Who knows the cause, maybe a bird struck the engine.
And what is more important … that the pilot asked passengers to pray, or that he landed the thing without even an injury? The latter doesn't seem to rate a mention in the article.
Once again, the media preys upon the fear of people, referring back to a crash from 3 years ago. How many millions of passengers have successfully flown the airline since then? It is many magnitudes safer than road travel.Seems like anyone who is willing to talk to the press is automatically labelled as an "expert" of some sort.
This guy probably just folded paper aeroplanes at school.
We are repeatedly told that planes can fly & land on one engine. And so the thing that disturbed me the most about this event, was the pilot's lack of confidence. Being told to pray is enough to cause a stampede.
Maybe the prayers works, who knows?
Asking people to pray is probably more a cultural norm than anything else.
Didn't look like much of a stampede to me. In fact, looking at the video in the linked article shows the two guys smiling and laughing.
I stand corrected. No one was panicking and everyone was having a ball!
This man clearly has not been on this website before. If he had he'd be able to learn skydiving using a free Udemy course, negating the risk of the low fare carrier and that'd be to save 5 bucks, what's this 200 nonsense? :D
Supposedly they all pass the same certification. Flight sims every 6 months and checking engine etc. Australian's fly … a lot. Some time ago the third busiest air corridor in the world was Melbourne - Sydney for example. Yet I don't think there's been a major airline accident in a long time, correct me if I'm wrong. The USA is not so fortunate.