Or worse, a 22 hour trans-pacific flight?
The longest currently scheduled commercial flight is roughly 17 hours, although there was a nearly 19 hour flight (Newark->Singapore). The planes are capable of flying further.
A non-stop flight is a flight by an aircraft with no intermediate stops, as opposed to a direct flight, which is any flight with no change in flight number, but which may include one or more stops.
During the early age of aviation industry when aircraft range was limited, most flights were served in the form of a milk run, aka there were many stops along the route. But as aviation technology developed and aircraft capability improved, non-stop flights began to take over and have now become a d...
Zebra
March 31, 2015, 7:36pm
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AnalogSignal:
This Q&A with Dr. Richard Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, was on the front page of the New York Times today.
Ask Well: Jet Crash Raises Questions on Mental Illness Risks - The New York Times
Still, there is no question that people with certain serious psychiatric illnesses are at a slightly higher risk of harming themselves and others compared with those without psychiatric illnesses, but the absolute risk is small.
You probably wouldn’t advocate using aircraft engines that have a slightly higher risk of failing. You would probably want airlines to choose the safest kind of engines. Similarly, I want airlines to chose pilots with the safest psychological profiles. Even though most people with a history of mental illness are not dangerous, why put passengers at greater risk than necessary?
Perhaps you should read your own cite.
Yes the nice man in the white coat said higher risk (!!!) Slightly higher to be exact but the absolute risk is low.
I bet some engines have slightly higher risk of failing. Should there be only one type of plane? Only the most safe plane? Any plane with a slightly higher risk of failing should be parked immediately and the engineers who designed it should be fired for being so reckless.
or as someone else put it.
[QUOTE=Superman]
tv news reports that the flight data recorder, very smashed, has been recovered.
And the French investigators have stated that the data confirms an intentional crash:
Germanwings crash: Second black box confirms co-pilot deliberately crashed plane
Data from the second black box found in the wreckage of the Germanwings flight that crashed last week in the French Alps confirm the co-pilot acted deliberately, investigators said on Friday.
“A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend the plane towards an altitude of 100 feet (30 metres),” said the French BEA crash investigation office in a statement.
“Then, several times during the descent, the pilot changed the automatic pilot settings to increase the aircraft’s speed,” added the investigators.
That would appear to put paid to the suggestion that the co-pilot had a seizure that incapacitated him.
I also read that his browser history included suicide methods and cockpit door security.
Updating this thread:
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz saw several doctors in the month before he deliberately flew a passenger jet into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board, French air accident investigators revealed Sunday. Some of those doctors issued him sick leave certificates, and one referred him to a psychiatric hospital – but no one informed the airline due to patient privacy regulations, and Lubitz continued to fly.
Lubitz may have been suffering from a “psychotic depressive episode” at the time of the crash, and had been prescribed antidepressants and sleeping pills in the months before, the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) said in its 87-page final report on the tragedy.
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz saw several doctors in the month before he deliberately flew a passenger jet into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board, French air accident investigators revealed Sunday.
Here is the English translation of the report:https://www.bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/BEA2015-0125.en-LR_03.pdf