User:Alemas2005/Chat/Logs/19 May 2016

 [10:19]  ...uh. [10:19]  Oh great. [10:19]  So... [10:19]   [10:20]  "What is a distress call". [10:20]  (YK) [10:21]  I’m kind of at the point where I take professional offence in dumb questions like “What can you say about the model A320? Is it safe?” [10:22]  Like, just how stupid must you be to question that [10:26]  ...? :P [10:26]  I don't quite get it. :P [10:26]  Do you take offence because people assume you know everything about aeroplanes and you clearly don't? :P [10:39]  no [10:40]  I take offence in it because people assume that any legal civil aircraft that are currently employed could be anywhere close to "unsafe" [10:41]  every single commercially available airliner is a pinnacle of safety technology [10:42] <Alemas2005> Ah. :P [10:43] <Alemas2005> Ok. :P [10:44] <GuacamoleCCXR> do you realise that the probability of spontaneous failure of a civil aircraft must be 10^-9 [10:45] <GuacamoleCCXR> that's actually why you always have two pilots, because the probability of a completely healthy person with no prior indications of disease or indisposition just dying is 10^-8 :P [10:49] <Alemas2005> But aeroplane accidents aren't due to "spontaneous failures"...? [10:49] <Alemas2005> Have you watched Air Crash Investigation (AKA Mayday)? :{P [10:50] <GuacamoleCCXR> aeroplane accidents are usually due to pilots being idiots lol [10:51] <Alemas2005> Pilots are almost always are a contributing factor, but mechanical failures shouldn't be excluded either. :P [10:52] <Alemas2005> "are almost always a contributing factor". [10:52] <Alemas2005> (derp) [10:53] <GuacamoleCCXR> we've had some stats regarding this in KE [10:53] <GuacamoleCCXR> I think the amount of accidents that can be attributed to mechanical failures only is like, 13% or so? :P [10:54] <Alemas2005> KE? :P [10:55] <GuacamoleCCXR> Konstruktionselemente [10:55] <Alemas2005> Ah. :P [10:55] <Alemas2005> So few? :P [10:55] <GuacamoleCCXR> the lecture in which you deal with how to calculate rivets and stuff, you know, to make sure no mechanical failures occur. :P [10:55] <GuacamoleCCXR> Yes [10:55] <GuacamoleCCXR> you see [10:56] <GuacamoleCCXR> if you maintain an aircraft properly and try not to save a couple bucks by skipping inspections then it's really surprisingly safe [10:56] <Alemas2005> Hm, maybe that's why many crashes involve budget airlines... [10:57] <Alemas2005> But then there are American airlines which somehow screw up so often. [11:01] <GuacamoleCCXR> It's really usually due to sloppy maintenance