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Bali plane crash

Post by expat yorkshire » 13th Apr, '13, 20:22

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 70795.html
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Re: Bali plane crash

Post by Duck » 13th Apr, '13, 21:12

I know, I couldn't believe it! This time last week I was flying with Lion Air out and back in to Bali.. Am now thankful that all I had to complain about was the 3hr delay... Even more coincidental was the fact that I joked about how everyone was fanning themselves with the emergency card onboard, I was saying that they deliberately had the cabin hot so folk would read the emergency card whilst fanning! I even did a quick life jacket check under the seat! Luckily, reports indicate that everyone survived...phew!
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Re: Bali plane crash

Post by Joseph27 » 14th Apr, '13, 09:28

Damn I fly Lion every fortnight and must admit it is one of the few carriers where I genuinely get a bit concerned when landed. Indonesian pilots seem to very keen to come in hard and fast. They are always good at taking the headlines at buying large fleets - but the stuff that makes an airline safe are left in the nggak apa-apa category
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Re: Bali plane crash

Post by Spike » 14th Apr, '13, 19:35

I definitely wouldn't fly with any airline that's banned from US and European air space because it's so unsafe.
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Re: Bali plane crash

Post by slinky » 15th Apr, '13, 11:06

Spike wrote:I definitely wouldn't fly with any airline that's banned from US and European air space because it's so unsafe.
Sounds like good criteria when choosing a flight. Yikes.
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Re: Bali plane crash

Post by nev » 15th Apr, '13, 12:57

I'd probably still fly Lion because sometimes it's the only airline that flies to the remote places I go to. Or the alternative is worse (have you even heard of Susi Air? Dodgiest airline name ever!)

It's a bummer but I'm glad there were no fatalities. It could have been a lot worse. The last Lion plane that crashed was never found.
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