Small unsafe flights

bobblebob

Anyone ever been on the smaller flights that you think just arent safe?

Recently i flew from the Serengeti to Arusha in Tanzania in a 16 seater. Turned up at the airport and was told to go straight to the plane. There the captain checked i was on the passenger list and then i threw my own luggage into the hold before boarding the plane. No security, no ID checks and no weighing of my luggage

While on the runway there were passengers of others planes ducking under the rotating propellers to leave the runway and then the flight was overbooked so 1 passenger sat in the cockpit

Makes you wonder why terrorists dont hijack a small plane and fly it into a large building. Certainly easier than hijacking a 787

Doshwaster

bobblebob wrote: »

Makes you wonder why terrorists dont hijack a small plane and fly it into a large building. Certainly easier than hijacking a 787

I suspect that if you do the maths then a small plane won't do that much damage to a large building.

PeteDoff

Doshwaster wrote: »

I suspect that if you do the maths then a small plane won't do that much damage to a large building.

Might make the windows dirty though.


I used to fly (SLF) in a twin otter with Air Ecosse, (so called because they were the size of two otters taped together) and the 'flight attendant' would turn around with two flasks and offer tea or coffee - I never found out where she produced the Mars bars from!

rustyboy21

I am bad enough on a Flybe Dash 8 to the Isle of Man.

I went over there on business a couple of years ago, with one of the Managers of a fire co, I deal with. Went from Liverpool.

Got onboard, no issue. Took off, was very bumpy and slippy on runway. It is only a 20 minute flight. Just as we were coming into land at IOM, a gust of wind caught us and pushed us down, below the cliff edge. The pilot veered up fast and then slammed on the runway ! We both screamed '' OH F***'' and grabbed each others hands !:rotfl:Everyone else was just reading their papers.
It is the only time, I have gone to collect my case and straight up to the bar for a double Brandy, before going anywhere. lol


That is the smallest plane you will ever get me on !

PeteDoff

Did the manager slap you on the face or was she OK about it?

rustyboy21

PeteDoff wrote: »

Did the manager slap you on the face or was she OK about it?

It was a HE and yes he was fine about it. lol


We were both covered in sweat by the time we got off the plane with panic ! lol

Alias_Omega

Once did a Dash 8 across the Alps, had over an hour flying in cloud..


Rather bumpy

REDDDRAGGON

Smaller aircraft are more fun.

Doshwaster

I did a short flight in a Turboprop in southern India. I couldn't help thinking, while flying over the jungle and mountains of Kerela, that if the plane went down then we'd never be found.

Voyager2002

When I lived in the Seychelles I would often sit in the cockpit next to the pilot on inter-island flights. Just life in the tropics...

whatmichaelsays

bobblebob wrote: »

Makes you wonder why terrorists dont hijack a small plane and fly it into a large building. Certainly easier than hijacking a 787

They don't because most terrorism is largely symbolic.

Hijacking a small plane in Tanzania isn't nearly as symbolic as hijacking four US-built planes, flown by two of America's flag carriers, and slamming them into world-recognised symbols of western power and capitalism.

The whole point of 9/11 wasn't to kill 3,000 people (those people were just 'collateral damage'). The idea was to make a statement.