So it's looking very much as if that airliner that came down in Egypt was bombed.

[Berni]

Mind you, it's going to take some brass neck for Putin to claim the moral high ground on this one, what with his lads having shot down that Malaysian airliner over Ukraine and everything.

[PSRB]

[7evens]

Cracks in the fuselage, rusty rivets wasn't it ?

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Pressure bulkhead failures are rare, certainly, but when they happen they might as well be a bomb.

[Berni]

Looks like an Allan Akhbar job to me.

[Ashberto]

And if it was the forces opposed to the regime in Kiev it would surely have been an accident.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

substandard maintenance says so...

You'd imagine security at Sharm would be pretty tight, wouldn't you? I hear that, in fact, the opposite is true.

[Pat Vegas]

anything I should be cautious of?

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

is crashing.

[Rich]

Although if it's a bomb then I guess I should be more worried about the return flight back to London.

[Rich]

aboard. What else could someone get on :-(

[Pat Vegas]

SCAT Airlines - Kazakhstan

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Going on holiday to north Africa at the moment is clearly a very sensible decision.

wd r.

[Brentwood]

They were still smashed the next morning and now doing porridge

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/18/drunken-airbalt ic-crew-included-co-pilot-at-seven-times-legal-alcohol-limit (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/18/drunken-airbaltic-crew-included-co-pilot-at-seven-times-legal-alcohol-limit)

[Rich]

follow the Nile before cutting over the Gulf of Suez and into South Sinai. Seems Easyjet don't fancy flying over North Sinai either.

Anyway - if it was a bomb, then surely some Allan Akbars would come out and claim it was them - and also probably back it up with propaganda of the preparation. This makes me think it could have been at catastrophic malfunction of a poorly maintained aircraft.

[Brentwood]

Worse than Magaluf, Kavos, Playa de las Americas combined.

Nice snorkelling, but an utter utter **** hole

Full of Russians walking on the coral reef

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

Health and safety gone mad imo.

[Rich]

[Pat Vegas]

[Berni]

I mean when, strictly speaking, they should all have died.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Imagine drinking pre-flight in public, for Christ's sake! Proper aircrew enjoy discreet room parties and no one is ever the wiser.

[Rich]

If the climate were the same as Mallorca then I wouldn't bother.

[Brentwood]

[Pat Vegas]

:-(

[Rich]

but a shoddy video that is clearly a fake. And even that wasn't circulated by an official channel.

[Berni]

Until someone proves otherwise, I'm happy to blame the Allens for this.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Is a cheap holiday really worth offering Tommy Terrorist a nice meaty propaganda opportunity? (Your neck and a fruit knife.)

[Brentwood]

[Pat Vegas]

as they thought Rich was flying yesterday

[Rich]

[Berni]

I didn't like the sound of my Singaporean pilot at first the other week. But then I saw he had a moustache and - absurdly - felt reassured. :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The footage of him in his hospital bed weeping like a baby because he couldn't save them all is quite heart-rending.

I should point out that all the crew were magnificent; the FO, FE, positioning training Captain who came up to help, and the cabin crew who stayed for ages in the smoke and flames chucking people out...

[Luis Anaconda]

Some feat

[Pat Vegas]

I felt as safe as you could possibly be.

[Brentwood]

[Berni]

I believe the whole thing had gone to tits, in fact.

[Snin]

[Berni]

Do they also applaud when someone reverse parks their car successfully?

[Snin]

as looks shoddy otherwise

[Brentwood]

[Berni]

truth sooner or later anyway?

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I think the fairies did it. No, wait, the ghost of Elvis did it.

[Pat Vegas]

[Berni]

[Pat Vegas]

I like to see what i am getting into.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

At the moment they're probably just desperate to keep some cashing coming through the door. In the medium term they're doomed anyway, I suppose.

[Classic Jorge]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ug7Doj2RWSU/Uqm7jcKg07I/AAAAAAAASRE/XFveaCybWXQ/s1600/AIRPLANE+2+(46).JPG

[Pat Vegas]

though on my last few trips no clapping at all.

[Snin]

that type of thing

[PSRB]

Sioux City Approach: United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway.
Haynes: [laughter] Roger. [laughter] You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

RIP those poor 224 souls....

[Berni]

is going to change my mind.

Allan Akbars + Russians + Planes = BANG! as far as I'm concerned.

[Classic Jorge]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

Crazy farking Egyptian truck drivers...
:banghead:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

One retains a healthy scepticism about pressure bulkhead repairs, that's all.

[PSRB]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

[PSRB]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[PSRB]