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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => General => Topic started by: eye30 on February 21, 2017, 07:35:06
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Four US citizens and an Australian pilot have died after their light plane crashed into a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia.
The charter flight appeared to have had a "catastrophic engine failure" shortly after taking off from the small Essendon Airport, said police.
Despite the destruction, no-one was killed or injured on the ground.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39023903
Any members live nearby?
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Very unfortunate :( being it crashed into a shopping centre it's amazing no one else was injured or killed.
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Shopping centres and other high density human occupation should not be located near danger zones.
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Shopping centres and other high density human occupation should not be located near danger zones.
We'll have to move Perth, planes fly over us all day long :faint:
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Very unfortunate :( being it crashed into a shopping centre it's amazing no one else was injured or killed.
Apparently it was mainly the warehouse part where a furniture store stored their stock. Plus, it was early so staff were just lining up to go into their shops. Certainly could have been catastrophic!
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Shopping centres and other high density human occupation should not be located near danger zones.
OK. That's it. Sydney has to go. :crazy1:
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'Catastrophic' is used in the risk industry, mainly systems engineering, to describe a sudden, total and unrecoverable failure, often resulting in death or major damage. For a twin engined aircraft, I'm expecting it to have had both engines fail to provide sufficient thrust to sustain a pilot's best friend - altitude.