Talk:Kegworth air disaster

message: I added in the classic 'it's the le... it's the right' line and also the sad outcome for the two pilots.
John
I've edited the crash infobox to include the photo - a lot of people don't realize that the infobox allows for photos to be placed right in it. --Charlene 02:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good move - it looks better like that. Ian Dunster 20:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The statement that the fire warnings were not cross-wired is meaningless to the average reader. If this is important, please add an explanation of what it means and what its significance is.Bill (talk) 22:12, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Cross-wiring

message: The crash site is here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=east+midlands+airport&f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.831356,-1.299257&spn=0.002217,0.005021&t=k&z=18&om=1
Don't know if that's worth adding as a link on the article; feel free to do so if it is (I'm a Wikinoob). --BigglesZX 06:00, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crash Site on Google Maps 

message: :Image:Kegworth Air Crash Scene.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kegworth Air Crash Scene.jpg

message: I have removed a sentence that related how the pilot heroically avoided hitting not just the nearest school, but the whole nearest village by "stretching the glide".
In fact, during a glide the aircraft is already flown at the speed which gives the best glide ratio (i.e., distance covered over loss of altitude); either increasing the speed (by pitching down), or reducing it (by pitching up) will result in a shorter distance covered over the ground. The only way of increasing the glide ratio is by reducing drag, e.g., by rising flaps/slats/gear, feathering props if applicable, etc., but the sentence I have removed specifically mentions a pitch down action and very much looks like sourced from poor journalism (judging by the obligatory mention of missing a village. It is a joke amongst pilots that one of the first actions in the forced landing checklist is finding a school to avoid).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.243.1.115 (talk) 19:45, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stretching the glide... not 

message: The report was at 
* http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.open.gov.uk/aaib/gobme/gobmerep.htm
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:01, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Old accident report

message: Shouldn't it be that the jet fuel was ignited by the jet exhaust, and not vise versa?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.27.56 (talk) 10:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jet exhaust 

message: 'Seconds to disaster' says that the smell of smoke was caused by the autothrottle feeding too much fuel in an attempt to maintain the expected speed of rotation in the damaged engine.  Before the pilot could shutdown the other engine, he had to disengage the autothrottle at which point the fuel feed reduced to a rate appropriate the actual engine speed.  This also allowed the engine to slow down and reduced the vibration.  In summary the reduction of smell and vibration was _not_ a coincidence as the article states at present.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.128.199.156 (talk) 10:44, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I see what you're saying, but it was a coincidence in the sense that the smoke and vibration reduced after shutting down the right (properly working) engine, even though that engine had nothing to do with the problem. Captain Quirk (talk) 21:57, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Causes - Smell of Smoke

message: Hunt's explanation about shutting down the wrong engine was debunked by the AAIB, so I removed it from the lede where it was stated as a causal factor. (It's still there in the body of the article). The AAIB's analysis (p98) reads in part:
80.2.106.75 (talk) 10:07, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The severe vibration of the unbalanced engine cause the vibration meters (and other instruments) to become blurred and unreadable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.144.50.132 (talk) 10:50, 3 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shutting down the wrong engine 

message: I don't know how appropriate this suggested source is, but for many of the spots where the footnote is needing a citation, those specific items are brought up in the Smithsonian Channel series, Air Disasters, by Cineflix Productions. I believe Air Disasters has several sister series: Mayday, Air Emergency, and Why Planes Crash are a few that come to mind. The episode name is Choosing Sides, original air date 06 Mar 2015. Since I'm not sure if this is a good citation, I'll just leave this information here, and let someone else decide if it's an appropriate source, or at least leads to one. Kelelain (talk) 01:34, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations Needed - I have a Suggestion 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn per WP:SNOW.   Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 08:45, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Kegworth air disaster →  – Most articles with titles of this style concern multiple flights (example: Tenerife airport disaster). However, this article concerns a single flight only. Therfore, I believe that, for consistency, this article should be moved to the linked target. This move has been previously proposed, but the last discussion was fourteen years ago, so it's worth it to see if consensus has changed. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:58, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move 5 March 2021