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These missiles can reach up to 72,000 feet. No civilan planes are beyond their range altitudewise.

Re: Breaking News! Malaysian Aircraft with 295 passengers crashed! again! Against civilan aircraft this and the Korean brought the plane down. I think somewhere in this thread someone posted a small table detailing these incidents.

Yes yy, from the radio exchange it looks to be so.

Re: Breaking News! Malaysian Aircraft with 295 passengers crashed! again! Oh sorry, I just saw your post. There are many other ways to get to Europe which are further south via the Middle East viz Dubai to as far south as Saudi Arabia. The problem is airspace congestion though. There are so...

Without a doubt Russia has supplied such weaponry to those rebels and while they are meant to be used against military aircraft these type of unfortunate accidents can happen due to a variety of reasons.

It is a very well utilised chunk of airspace.

Re: Breaking News! Malaysian Aircraft with 295 passengers crashed! again! NOTAMS sometimes just advise the pilots regarding the latest developments of situations. They may give general advice in this case eg switching on all lights so that you can be seeen ( as opposed to trying hard not to...

Re: Breaking News! Malaysian Aircraft with 295 passengers crashed! again! BUK Missile system SA11 or SA17 surface-to-Air missiles launchers can hit targets over 70,000 feet high.A few days back, a Ukraine Military Transport Antonov 26 flying at just over 20,000ft was shot down in roughly the...

Re: Breaking News! Malaysian Aircraft with 295 passengers crashed! again! No without switching on the transponder you cant even leave your departure airport.

5 hours in the plane as it stood on the ground is a torture for the passengers. They should have been deplaned unless there was no room in the holding area.

Go take flying lessons. Your crosswind landings will be superb.

I am actually a happy sushi.

Go to the famous chocolate factory . You need to take a bus or a taxi to get there. Cherry blossoms in bloom too so go and have a look, too bad the lavenders not blooming yet. Try the crabs . Dont forget the hot springs too either at Jozankei ( nearer to city ) or Noboribetsu ( nearer to airport ).

That was prior to my unfortunate demotion.

I wanted to be a postbox so the dogs could pee on me.

You are not very far from the truth.

Ah I wish.

Not from SIA bro but my work is airline related and I have also been interested in this aircraft since I was a kid.

The pilot has got to get the landing technique correct at these high landing weights otherwise a heavy landing coupled with a hard landing could affect the structure of the landing gear. Either one of these conditions would require a check done by Engineering. An airconditioning problem could...

Hahaha the swimmer Jos Yeo also could.