Emiliano Sala

[chrismpw]

Sounds grim.

Maybe these people should travel on the ground.

 

[LocalNative]

Sounds grim.

Maybe these people should travel on the ground.

Traveling by air is the safest mode of transport.

Mad this, can only hope for the best but things ain't looking good. Awful.

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[Deleted member 38674]

Unbelievably sad for all concerned.

Doesn't look good if there's no response from Sala to loved ones & they had to call off a search party due to adverse weather conditions.

Hoping we're all jumping to conclusions. Tragic.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Bit scary that one his final tweets reads 'The last goodbye'.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Cardiff fan sites saying he isn't on board.

Here's hoping whoever was is safe

I’m fairly sure if he wasn’t on it he’d have come out and said something by now. Scary amount of air disasters in football isn’t there?

 

[The binman chronicles]

Sounds grim.

Maybe these people should travel on the ground.

Bergkamp and Mr T know the score.

 

[devogue]

RIP

 

[larbert toffee]

Probably worth it’s own thread, Cardiff City Football Club are seeking clarification that Emiliano Sala was on board a light aircraft that went missing from radar in the English Channel last night.

The 28 year old Argentinian has just joined Cardiff for a club record £15m. Concerning news.

It certainly is concerning news Eggs they're going to have to rely on Oumar.

 

[Steve0]

Traveling by air is the safest mode of transport..

Hear that all the time but not sure how true it is. Maybe with the big airplanes that are constantly checked but the light aircrafts and helicopters seem very unsafe.

Celebrities probably travel by airplane more than trains so not a totally fair comparison but we can all easily name over 100 celebrities who have died by plane (and many more who have come close) and very very few who have died on trains.

Hope who's ever on that plane is Ok.

 

[chrismpw]

Traveling by air is the safest mode of transport.

Mad this, can only hope for the best but things ain't looking good. Awful.

I'm pretty sure that this oft-quoted stat is in terms of per mile, as opposed to per journey. As a form of transport though, there's no way out when something goes wrong, unlike coasting to a halt after engine failure.

 

[longers]

Hear that all the time but not sure how true it is. Maybe with the big airplanes that are constantly checked but the light aircrafts and helicopters seem very unsafe.

Celebrities probably travel by airplane more than trains so not a totally fair comparison but we can all easily name over 100 celebrities who have died by plane (and many more who have come close) and very very few who have died on trains.

Hope who's ever on that plane is Ok.

It’s by far the safest mode of transport, 1 in 16 million chance of crashing based on 2017 aviation stats. Last year was also the safest year in aviation history.

Doesn’t stop me from hating flying with a passion though.

 

[Steve0]

It’s by far the safest mode of transport, 1 in 16 million chance of crashing based on 2017 aviation stats. Last year was also the safest year in aviation history.

Doesn’t stop me from hating flying with a passion though.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Just seems like a stat from the aviation press office to me. Like Chris said I think that's per mile. Every non fatal 10,000 mile journey from England to Australia with 600 passengers = 6million miles with no deaths.

 

[tsubaki]

Sad news this

 

[Saint Domingo]

Hope all involved come out safely but this doesn’t sound good.