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Air India plane crash

motorbiking said:
My own experience of Indian flights is people are running for the exits as soon as the wheels bounce. I've never seen such crazy behaviour, just to get first in the queue. Rumours that the plane did not use all the runway and flaps were up seem to be everywhere.

Latest news - 1 British survivor.
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Never experienced that on Indian flights, have on charters from MAN to Greece
 
MNW67 said:
Sounds a bit odd as well. Maybe they have a statutory scheme.
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they do. 100k USD if I recall. Its not a statutory scheme though, more code of practice.

Its always in the interests of the airline to settle quickly and pay quickly.
 
Hydraulics failure? If my memory is correct, most modern airliners rely on the system hydraulics to operate the landing gear up and down. Also, from the phone footage shown on newsreels, not a trace of full thrust smoke from either engine as it rapidly lost height, so there must have been a very good reason for that. My house on the south coast is just a tad to the south of a major Gatwick approach stack, so that plane could have crashed about an air mile to my north :gulp:
 
motorbiking said:
they do. 100k USD if I recall. Its not a statutory scheme though, more code of practice.

Its always in the interests of the airline to settle quickly and pay quickly.
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I think that is an instant interim payment only -- further to investigations so no extra suffering of the families involved, with things like being thrown onto the streets is it was the main bread winner on the plane - stuff like that.
 
aveatry said:
I think that is an instant interim payment only -- further to investigations so no extra suffering of the families involved, with things like being thrown onto the streets is it was the main bread winner on the plane - stuff like that.
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That sounds very sensible.
 
If I was Vishwash Kumar Ramesh I'd do the lottery this week jeezz how lucky to walk out of that........


Seat 11A...
 
motorbiking said:
they do. 100k USD if I recall. Its not a statutory scheme though, more code of practice.

Its always in the interests of the airline to settle quickly and pay quickly.
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Montreal Convention, previously the Warsaw Convention...

Although the airlines often try and get away with paying as little as possible, especially when the victims come from a 'poorer country'.
 
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