Asshole racist traitor.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:58 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>-- and no one is around to hear it, do they make any noise?
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>Dangers of flying in Africa
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>By Lucy Jones
>BBC News Online
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>Air crashes in Africa are not uncommon.
>
>While living in the Central African Republic a large Boeing cargo airplane
>carrying onions from Chad crashed into a neighborhood not far from where I
>lived.
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>Only one of 22 passengers survived - a crew member who took refuge in the
>metal-walled kitchen.
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>He had lived through several crashes - which he regarded as one of the
>dangers of working on African airlines.
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>He told investigators that the aircraft had crashed because it had run out
>of fuel - a minute before reaching the runway.
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>A few days later, a friend working for an aid organization crashed an
>aircraft upon landing - the termite hills on the red dust runway had got in
>the way.
>
>My friends who flew diamond dealers to mines in the bush would say they were
>often forced to fly overloaded.
>
>Travelling by air in parts of Africa can be fraught with inconveniences.
>
>Flights can be delayed for days or in some cases even weeks at a time, with
>passengers often given no compensation or even a hotel bed.
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>To arrive with all one's luggage intact can be nothing short of a miracle.
>
>Limited transport
>
>But flying can also be dangerous.
>
>Mark Pilling, managing editor of London-based Airline Business recommends
>passengers travelling across the continent to stick to established airlines.
>
>"Scheduled airlines in Africa are safe as anywhere else - generally," he
>said.
>
>But scheduled airlines do not exist in many corners of Africa.
>
>And given the vastness of the continent and the lack of road and railway
>networks, there is often no other way of getting around, other than to fly.
>
>AFRICAN AIR CRASHES
>1983 Angolan Airlines Boeing 737 - 126 killed
>1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 - 160 killed
>1989 French UTA DC-10 - 171 killed
>1995 Cameroon airliner - 60 killed
>1996 Antonov-32 cargo plane - 350 killed
>2000 - Kenya Airways Airbus - 169 killed
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3014123.stm
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