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  6. Posted · Report reply

    I'll advise on the dates soon.Both planes has its advantages and disadvantages but only as far as viewing preferences. Th e High wing aircraft allows direct look down viewing as the view is not blocked by the wing. However its just the opposite when the plane is banked. As for turning it into MW Anniversary activities, maybe the website owners should decide.

     

    The List, updated.

     

    1. TK

    2. Wilson

    3. David C

    4. KK Lee

    5. Mohammed Nasir

    6. Viktor A.

    7. Walter Sim

    8. Kevin Teh

    9. TW Teo

    10.Diadrian

    11. Azuan Zaidi

    12. Kelvin L

    13. Alan B

    14. LeeCH

    15. KS Ong

    16 Nicholas

    17. Irni

     

    Nik, my name takrra ka??

     

    I think for the 1st time, i prefer high wing so that i can directly see whats below me! :p

     

    Lagipun, high wing is more laterally stable right?

     

    Anyway, its a great idea to have it in conjunction with the 3rd MW anni. :yahoo:

  8. Posted · Edited by Jerry Ang · Report reply

    Mountain searched after Angolan plane crash

    Sun 20 Jan 2008, 11:03 GMT

     

    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Authorities on Sunday searched a mountain in southern Angola where a chartered light aircraft crashed, killing all 12 people aboard, Angop news agency reported.

     

    Investigators were at the site outside Huambo, some 450 km (280 miles) southeast of the capital Luanda, a day after a twin-propeller plane plunged into the Mbave mountain.

     

    Helder Presa, Angola's deputy minister for transport, was expected to receive a briefing there, Angop said.

     

    An Angolan aviation official has said that bad weather may have been a factor in the accident, which occurred as the Beechcraft King Air B200 was nearing the airport in Huambo early Saturday morning. It was coming from the capital, Luanda.

     

    Angop said that among the dead was businessman Valentim Amoes, but gave no further details about him. Portugal's Lusa news agency said on Saturday that two of the other victims were Portuguese nationals.

     

    The plane belonged to a company that operates chartered flights in oil-rich Angola, a former Portuguese colony that is struggling to upgrade airports, roads, bridges and other infrastructure devastated during a 27-year civil war.

     

    An economic boom, fuelled by oil wealth, has led to growing demand for air travel in the country since the end of the war in 2002, straining the capacity of the state-owned TAAG airline as well as smaller carriers and charter companies.

     

    A TAAG Boeing 737 crashed last year in the northern city of M'banza Congo, killing a handful of passengers and injuring dozens of others. That crash led the European Union to put TAAG on its airline blacklist.

     

    (Writing by Paul Simao; editing by Myra MacDonald)

     

    From : http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL20707890.html

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    ... I was almost talking to myself, "Who cares about the PM, tell me more details of the aircraft and the people onboard!"... Not everything is about terrorist these days...

     

    I have to agree with this! People love to speculate... :huh:

     

    I'm more interested in the cause of the disaster. Mechanical failure?? What was wrong with the landing gear? Someone left his spanner inside the wheel well??

    Go on investigators! :clapping:

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    if the plane is not powered by its own. Meaning the engines are not turned on, then there's no hydraulics to power the brakes on bored.

    When the aircraft is static with engines off. Normally the parking brakes will not work without the hydraulics, so you would see wooden stoppers in

    between the wheels.

     

    Allow me to add on here...

     

    Actually, when aircraft power is off, yes, brakes can operate, but with limitations. Initially, the hyd pump must operate to produce some pressure which will be stored in the accumulator. Once power is off, the accumulator still holds pressurized hyd fluid, 3000 psi for instance. I think the A380 is using 5000 psi (correct me if i'm wrong).

     

    Like on a 737, when accumulator is pressurized and power shut down, one can only apply brakes for 5 or 6 times (dont remember 5 or 6, but its something like that) before the accumulator unpressurizes. Once unpressurized, brakes are not working and the only way to pressurize the accumulator again is by powering up the hyd pump again.

     

    Anyway, what an incident. Thank God no one was injured.

  15. Posted · Edited by Jerry Ang · Report reply

    Very uncommon thing! I also never come across such incidents. Every generator supply has their own independent supply line, if one fails, it wont affect the other. Also, a 744 has two seperate main power distribution, left & right. If one fail, it shouldn't have affect the other... Unless of coz.,..both fail, extremely rare tho...

     

    Wait...are the engines running? It says here the cabin was eerie silent. Sounds as is the engines has stopped either.

     

    And APU broke down as well??!! Dont tell me another volcanic activity which choke up the engines!

     

    Hmmm....that would be an interesting troubleshooting to do...!

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    i totally agree with ur statement , one thing i see about this kind of ppl is that they never seems to see things at the positive side. Evrerything that their eye can see is totally from the negative side ....

    They have nothing brillliant to talk about actually. they just simply korek [dig out] one puny little issue and try to make a big fuss out of it...

     

    I think thats the criteria to be a politician in todays world! biasalah... :p

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