A300 down in Mexico

This warrants another thread, but I think that a flight engineer is an indispensable asset in the cockpit.

I never realised the A300 had an FE station.

The older A300-B4´s had flight engineer station. The newer A300-600 does not.

You know what “TUE” means in French, don’t you? Eerie.

Not much left

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Aerounion/Airbus-A300B4-203(F)/1684678/L/

Well photographed bird. The mind wonders if any of the pilots mentioned were on board, makes the whole thing that little more personal.

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=XA-TUE&distinct_entry=true&page=1&page_limit=15&sid=22fe079bbb27f19d12d03ffbe12083cb&sort_order=year+desc

I never realised the A300 had an FE station.

That down unda poster got both of us this morning!:D

You beat me to it matey!

ASN update, five crew killed and one on the ground.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20100413-1

🙁 R.I.P

Rob
🙁

Not good news. 🙁

ASN report, aircraft was XA-TUE, the first a/c to be delivered to the airline although it was on lease.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20100413-1

This report states two on the plane and three on the ground were killed, would have thought this was the wrong way round.:(

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre63d0xk-us-mexico-planecrash/

It really does seem to be the case that these things happen in threes. TU-154, 737 and now this. Rest In Peace. 🙁