Plane Crash Alert

[Magic]

Carrying a Brazilian football team. Crashed in Brazil in s mountainous area. There may be survivors so this is a survivor watch thread.

[Magic]

76 dead, 5 survivors. Wooft.

[Kikó]

Tragic.

[Magic]

It is, but the fact there are any survivors at all is a miracle.

[Kikó]

Is there a breakdown on where most crashes occur? It feels like south America would be high on the list.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You'd be a brave man to get on an Indonesian internal flight.

[Magic]

Is there a breakdown on where most crashes occur? It feels like south America would be high on the list.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1qK3gs9eRJ0K2Q3Ogl2kJBlUv5o0&ll=-3.81666561775622e-14%2C37.33068266186524&z=1

Not that many crashes in the past 10 years. Seems like '85 to '06 was the golden era for horrific crashes.

Oh wow and it looks like most in South America were indeed in Colombia.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of the team's defenders and a couple of its goalkeepers may have survived.

[Kikó]

You would.

[Magic]

Especially if their names were Green and Silvestri.

[John]

FM in reality. Even a plane crash can be superkeepered.

[Byron]

Unfortunately the first choice goalkeeper has since died.

[Smiffy]

https://twitter.com/Baller__Street/status/803598850904637440

That's brutal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Christ, imagine picking up a cheap yellow card to get yourself suspended and then that.

[Smiffy]

It feels wrong reading the stories coming out about them. One became a father last week. There's a post on their Facebook page being at the airport and being excited about the match and their journey.

[Lewis]

It will be interesting to see how they re-build. If it happened to a big club (another Munich-type scenario) they could just buy a new team over a couple of transfer windows and ride the sympathy to the bank, but Brazilian football isn't really capable of that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Problem is it's taken out everyone, the coaching staff, the board, the local media, etc.

[Giggles]

Isn't that like the college football team in the 1970's where there were only the few injured ones left that didn't travel. Though it's different in that they had new intakes of players and the ones killed would have been gone in a few years anyway.

Matthew McConaughey was in a rather sickly film about it.

[Magic]

They should all travel individually on separate charter flights.

[John]

PSG's owners are donating forty million quid to Chapecoense, and all other Brazilian sides are offering to loan them players for free.

[Magic]

Didn't they offer to 'donate' the Championship too? Not sure how they'd fare being a newly promoted side...

[John]

They've been made exempt from relegation for the next three years.

[Kikó]

United are sending Marcus Rojo, Phil Jones, Maruane Fellaini and Wayne Rooney to help out.

[Lewis]

Sunderland should run their coach off the road this weekend.

[Magic]

I'd happily see all the current LUFC squad burn to death if it meant promotion.

[Offshore Toon]

Sunderland should run their coach off the road this weekend.

:D

[Giggles]

Liverpool have offered to take a 70% share of the grief.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Liverpool have offered to take a 70% share of the grief.

Is that enough for them?

They'll probably murder Daniel Sturridge's cat to top it up I guess.

[Lewis]

The other finalists (Atletico Nacional) have asked that the dead team be made champions. I would start milking this. Neymar was our big target for the new season, but I don't suppose he would want to come now... :(

[Spikey M]

Liverpool have offered to take a 70% share of the grief.

:D

[bruhnaldo]

Isn't that like the college football team in the 1970's where there were only the few injured ones left that didn't travel. Though it's different in that they had new intakes of players and the ones killed would have been gone in a few years anyway.

Matthew McConaughey was in a rather sickly film about it.

This actually happened where my family grew up, Marshall University.

Just awful. My mom was 13 at the time. Said the entire town just stopped. Mind you, the city itself is basically wrapped around the University, so it was a crazy big deal.

[Giggles]

This actually happened where my family grew up, Marshall University.

Just awful. My mom was 13 at the time. Said the entire town just stopped. Mind you, the city itself is basically wrapped around the University, so it was a crazy big deal.

I only ever knew them because of Randy Moss and Byron Leftwich (getting carried down the field he was playing so injured). Are they 1A?

Always meant to look up how close the film was to the actual story.

[bruhnaldo]

I only ever knew them because of Randy Moss and Byron Leftwich (getting carried down the field he was playing so injured). Are they 1A?

Always meant to look up how close the film was to the actual story.

Funny enough, I lived in the area for both years Randy Moss was at Marshall and we had season tickets both of those years so I got to watch Randy play all of his college ball live :)

They were 1AA until Randy's last season when they moved up to 1A.

The film is decently close but some of the relationships I think were stretched a bit. Like the bit with the kid's father and his fiancee and her trying to give the ring back to him and all that shit was made up IIRC.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I know it was only eight (?) players that died in the Munich disaster, but what did United do at the time? Did they just muck on through with youth players and that?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I know it was only eight (?) players that died in the Munich disaster, but what did United do at the time? Did they just muck on through with youth players and that?


While Busby recovered in hospital, his assistant Jimmy Murphy took temporary charge of team affairs (Murphy had not gone to Yugoslavia with the team, as he was managing the Welsh national side in a World Cup qualifier against Israel). United struggled in the League after Munich, winning only one of their last 14 matches and finishing in ninth place. However, they performed well in the FA Cup matches and made it to the final, but lost to Bolton 2–0. At the end of the season, UEFA offered The FA the opportunity to submit both United and the eventual champions Wolves for the 1958–59 European Cup, an unprecedented move, as a tribute to the victims, but the FA declined.

A period of rebuilding followed with several significant signings, including Albert Quixall, Maurice Setters, Denis Law, Pat Crerand, and Noel Cantwell between 1958 and 1962.

Mucked through.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–58_Manchester_United_F.C._season

They had 2 weeks off (6th is when it happened, next game on the 22nd), don't know if that was due to an international break though.

[Lewis]

They signed a couple of new players for the 1958/59 season, but your squad was about fourteen deep then, so they just replaced the dead ones with reserves.

[Giggles]

Maurice Setters :cool:

EDIT: Actually, looking him up again (to see was he Jack Charlton's assistant through his whole reign) threw up this little piece of madness of a league https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Soccer_Association

[Kikó]

But the fa declined.

Massive twats.

[niko_cee]

Maurice Setters :cool:

EDIT: Actually, looking him up again (to see was he Jack Charlton's assistant through his whole reign) threw up this little piece of madness of a league https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Soccer_Association

The final of that had goals in the 64th, 65th, 66th and 67th minute.

:cab:

[Shindig]

I somewhat respect that. The opportunity to earn that place was on the table and United couldn't take it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

But the fa declined.

Massive twats.

Different society then, just thirteen years on from random violent death being an hourly occurrence in World War II. I doubt Liverpool were offering to loan them Roger Hunt FOR FREE within hours of the plane going down.

[Spoonsky]

Argentina offering to loan players from their league for free too (Benfica as well @Kiko). It would be funny if they managed to build a mega team from this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm really not sure about the loaning players stuff on the same day it happened.

'Here, look, everyone's dead, but we'll loan you this guy who's got a way better first touch anyway.'

[Magic]

Argentina offering to loan players from their league for free too (Benfica as well @Kiko). It would be funny if they managed to build a mega team from this.

Yeah hilarious. ��

[Kikó]

Yeah hilarious. ��

How annoying would it be if they got loaned 3 goalkeepers?

[Dquincy]

Plane ran out of fuel, which is odd.

[Baz]

Plane ran out of fuel, which is odd.A friend of a friend has a pilots license and refuses to fly with any of the budget airlines (e.g. Ryanair) because one of the way they keep costs down is to have just enough fuel for the trip, and perhaps enough to get to the next airport over if there's a problem. I'm surprised this doesn't lead to more crashes occurring due to running out of fuel.

[John Arne]

Don't all pilots start at "budget" airlines nowadays??

I would have though that running out of fuel in this instance was more due to the fact that some idiot on the ground made a mistake whilst calculating/filling up.

[Baz]

Don't all pilots start at "budget" airlines nowadays??I meant she won't use them when flying as a passenger, like if she's going on holiday. She doesn't actually work as a pilot but her family has a private jet that she flies. Apparently in Norway (she's Norwegian) it's quite common for people to learn how to fly a plane, almost as common as it is for people to learn to swim. Bizarre.

[John]

I wouldn't be flying budget airlines if my family had a private jet either, and not out of concern for their frugality with fuel.

[Disco]

They may have simply used more fuel than expected, something as simple as the weather can lead to that. Not that it shouldn't be accounted for of course.

[Foe]

They may have simply used more fuel than expected, something as simple as the weather can lead to that. Not that it shouldn't be accounted for of course.

Big Sanchez at the pedal is a bit of a boy
racer the prick.

RIP.

[Pepe]

What team died? Hope it was Sao Caetano (jk, safetywink, etc.)

Also, if I can land my planes after running out of battery (most of the time) a professional pilot should manage just fine.

[Foe]

What team died? Hope it was Sao Caetano (jk, safetywink, etc.)

Also, if I can land my planes after running out of battery (most of the time) a professional pilot should manage just fine.

Tricky over mountains or water.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tricky over mountains or water.

You've never seen Pepe don it with his planes.

[Lewis]

Juan Roman Riquelme offering his services is nice. Unfortunately, mate, they're playing in a final, so their usual number ten would be more use.

[Dquincy]

My cousin's husband insures planes....including the two ill fated Malaysian planes. They paid out a shit load of £££ but are confident of claiming it back.

Anyway, he said based on the number of flights we have today, if you applied the 1980's safety record, then we'd have a plane crash every week. I know this is a bit if my auntie had bollocks she'd be my uncle, but still, i found it interesting.

[Kikó]

I'm pretty sure Ryanair and easy jet have two impeccable safety records.

Good joke Lew.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I know a guy who is a pilot for ENTER (Polish airline).

I believe he interviewed for Easyjet but they needed more experience.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38181168

What a cunt of a pilot.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38215558

Brazilian club Chapecoense have been awarded the Copa Sudamericana by South American football confederation Conmebol after most of their team died in a plane crash en route to the final.

Colombian opponents Atletico Nacional, who asked for Chapecoense to be awarded the trophy, have been given a Fair Play award to acknowledge their "spirit of peace, understanding and fair play".

Chapecoense will be given the $2m (£1.57m) in prize money while Atletico Nacional will receive $1m (£787,000).

[Disco]

That's a bit much.

[Lewis]

There must be at least one Atletico Nacional player seething to himself about that.

[Kikó]

At least they won the fair play award.

[Disco]

Begs the question how many deaths would win you a champions league?

[Lewis]

Forty (at least), otherwise Juventus would moan.

[Dquincy]

Begs the question how many deaths would win you a champions league?

Who's begging that?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Imagine the fallout had Liverpool not won the FA Cup during the 'JFT96' year.

[Dquincy]

Imagine a Manc not going on about that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You lost must be counting down the days until the next big tragedy to break the black armbands out.

[Dquincy]

We're all about the R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

[John]

Our minute silence at the weekend was mostly about Davie Provan, with his career stats being read out in full before the plane crash got a sentence at the end. As a result, the Aberdeen fans were caught between applause and silence and ended up going half and half.

Still dusted off a couple of Ibrox Disaster songs late in the day.

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38261584

Well...that's pretty fucked.

[Magic]

Russian aircraft crashed after taking off from Moscow. 71 missing.

[Magic]

Confirmed dead by the Russians.

[Bam]

Russian aircraft crashed after taking off from Moscow. 71 missing.


Which team this time? CSKA, Spartak, Lokomotiv or Dynamo? :|

[Spikey M]

These things usually happen in batches and I fly in 2 weeks. Soviet cunts.

[Magic]

Presumably it won't be on an Antonov?

[Spikey M]

Depends on Tui cost cutting measures

[Magic]

RIP.

"Dear God... this person appears to have been decapitated!"
"No sir, there is a head there if you look hard enough"

[Lewis]

The Russians should really stick to trains.

[Magic]

Sorry lads off the ball here.

Cuba 737. Crashed just after take off. 3 survivors.

[Boydy]

CIA.

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