Talk:Aloha Airlines Flight 243
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This page has been cited as a source by a media organization. See the 2005 press source article for details.
The citation is in: Tim Ryan. "'243' is horrific Aloha flight story", Honolulu Star Bulletin, December 22, 2005. |
Question: how can a 19-year old plane have 80,000 takeoff-landing cycles? There are about 7,000 days in 19 years, so this plane somehow averaged 10 cycles per day? Maybe it was 8,000 cycles, which would average one cycle per day, which seems reasonable..
Answer: 80,000 takeoff-landing cycles is correct. Prior to Sept 11, 2001, Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines typically flew on the order of ten inter-island flights per jet daily. Daily service started at 5:00 am and concluded at 9:00 pm. Flight times were approximately 20 to 60 minutes depending on the route, and turnaround time on the ground was on the order of 20-30 minutes.
[edit] Source question
Was the page as of Dec 23 plagiarized from this news article http://starbulletin.com/2005/12/22/features/story05.html, or visa versa?
- This article was used as part of the source fore the story above. Trödel•talk 18:52, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
The article shows both 80,000 and 89,000 cycles in the aftermath section. Which is correct? 141.228.106.135 12:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
01/12/06: "Vice versa". The article contains the following:
CORRECTION Saturday, December 24, 2005 » A portion of a review of the television show "Secrets of the Black Box: Aloha Flight 243" was taken verbatim from the Web site reference.com. The material was originally published in the online encyclopedia wikipedia.com. The article, on Page D6 Thursday, failed to attribute the information to either source.
