Yemeni jetliner has crashed in the Indian Ocean

[RabidAlien]

I think you make a bigger point than you realise
People don't tend to start juggling safety record statistics when a plane goes down, they tend instead to postulate that 2 + 2 = 5; we have two air accidents where

i. both are Airbus
ii. both crashed in the ocean
iii. within a short space of time of one another
iv. both for reasons as yet not ascertained

unfortunately, that is the sort of pattern that an uninformed public (uninformed does not imply unintelligent) formulates and carriers know it. They know that they need a definitive statement disassociating one accident from the other and they need it quickly. Airbus definitely need it quickly.

...and I expect the media to pick up on that one and run, if Airbus can't get something plausible, believable, and proveable out soon.

Torch: Hadn't heard any updates on the kiddo's age. Dang. At least a 5-year old might not remember anything and go on to live a normal life. One does wonder how this will affect the rest of a 14-year-old's life.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Apparently bad weather again. Still not seeing anything on the age of the survivor.

 

[sabrina]

Here's the story that briefly mentions the 14-year-old girl...they stated that it was orginally announced a 5-year-old survived but that we have lost contact with the office in that region...perhaps there is another survivor that can't be confirmed? The 14-year-old's in the hospital right now.

Yemeni plane with 153 crashes off Comoros Islands - Yahoo! News

 

[vikingBerserker]

Wow, she's gonig to have nightmares for the rest of her life. That's a shame. Thanks for posting the link sabrina.

 

[GrauGeist]

There was that wreck years ago in Japan, I beleive, where the sole survivor was a young girl, who had been in the back of the airplane.

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

May be JAL flight 123, that crash had four survivors, all seated in the rear of the plane. Sorry if I sound a bit morbid, I'm somewhat interested in investigating air crashes.

 

[GrauGeist]

May be JAL flight 123, that crash had four survivors, all seated in the rear of the plane. Sorry if I sound a bit morbid, I'm somewhat interested in investigating air crashes.

That may be it...not sure why I remember only a single survivor, though it was a long time ago.

 

[Wayne Little]

damn sad to hear of another so soon after the other crash.....