its really quite worrying! if your flying its always best to fly with the national carriers in my view as they have the finances to keep aircraft upto spec and also to renew them regularly!

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SP the 2nd crash wasn't in the North Sea it was off the East Coast of Canada and it's been in the national press and on the radio and TV.

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its really quite worrying! if your flying its always best to fly with the national carriers in my view as they have the finances to keep aircraft upto spec and also to renew them regularly!

Absolutely... and mistakes still happen regardless. And it doesn't necessarily have to be airline specific - look at this current problem with the heat exchangers in the fuel systems of 777s. 

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If you don't like flying on old planes keep away from Kenian Airways, the plane i flew on was falling appart, the louvered ceiling was bouncing up and down held together with tie wraps, the only first aid box they had had a rusty safety pin in it, which we need to pop some painfull blisters from insect bites my wife got on the last night

Though looking at them last year, when my parents went, the brouchure seem to have nice picture of first class cabin, but on my advice/experiance they took BA instead.

mind you, even concord had issues, its so sad that concord stopped flying! that was an icon! i still get excited when i see it on the ground at terminal 5! and i always look out for it when i am taking off!

i flew Sudan airways once into sudan! the aircraft too was falling apart, it was the only aircraft we could get at short notice as my uncle had passed away in lonodn and tradition is they are berried in 24 hours adn typically he wanted to be burried in sudan where he was born!

that was the most horendus flight and the airhostess told me to sit down and shut up because i moved seats! there was 6 of us on the whole plane!

they played a superman show that was in blak and white RR Sport supercharged 06
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i agree, they are so regularly checked i think thats why. they are also a very young airline and dont have a large array of planes, just 737s and airbuses! RR Sport supercharged 06
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Can't say the same for Jet2

My brothers plane a couple of years ago, hit the gantry when pulling away, the pilot kept going, and my brother was thinking he was still going to take off, but was heading for another parking spot

He's been a nervous flyer ever since

But it is still statisticaly the safest way to travel

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i love flying! love going shopping at terminal 5!

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