Toronto A340 crash, big news overseas?

Pure curiousity. First, I'm amazed and pleased at the lack of casualties.

Second. The idiots controlling the airport (Lester B. Pearson) should have filled in or spanned the ravine after the 1978 fatal crash. It should be a gravel trap ala Formula 1.

Third. All my TV channels were domianted by the crash, CNN US included. Fair enough. What was the Euro/UK coverage like? Live and continuous or just an insert into your regular news?

Well, do bear in mind that it happened at midnight in thge UJ, so network news isn't running that time of night. By 6am when it starts up again, it was all over in Toronto and everyone had gone home.

BBC News 24, BBC World, ITV News and Sky News were all running with it constantly when it happened, just as the American news networks. BBC N24 gave up and went back to normal programming once it was clear that there were no fatalities.

It's been on the daily bullitins, fairly low down the running order - we've terrorist problems. It has been covered though. Running order today's been
Terror attack's in London arrests
Iran nauclear situation
18 year old who was murdered by twisted, idiot thugs in Liverpool
Discovery repair job
this

Hi Wally, sorry to hear about the crash. ... I just heard it from you.

Edited by Snappy! 2005-08-03 6:24 PM

No fatalities thankfully. I can nearly spit to my father's house from runway 24L, so naturally I'm always concerned when Pearson has a crash.

Our topics on the news today
the crash,
London terrorists, (gets lot of coverage which keeps me to date)
more gunfights in Torontos east end ( a rapidly diminishing former nice 'hood.)

Hey, I meant to mention. Didn't Woking have a tornado last week? Or one of the shires? Forgive me for my lack of geographic skills with the UK. I' m working on getting to speed. But isn't it very unusual to have a tornado in the UK I live in Tornado Alley North, so I'm used to the warnings and effects.

Embarrassed, Dad n Mum are both from the UK and I've only been back once. LOL, before you ask, Scotland is *still* a part of the UK?

It was in Birmingham actually

But is the full name Birmingham or Birminghamshire? I think I'd better have at look at my Ordnance Survey maps before the other foot goes in

Birmingham is our second city. A Shire is a county.

Birmingham is in the West Midlands, and more or less stradles Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Here is your twister:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=64253&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=11616

No, fortunatly. Its a bit to close to home for me

Nick

Woking, LOL at me. That's where McLaren is based. It's the first UK location that came to mind. TY for the picture link. I hope injuries were low/nil. Isn't a tornado really rare in the UK? We see anywhere from 5-20 in our county and surrounding area per year.

Jepordy question for me. The West Midlands were once a: What is a coal mining district?
Yes/no?

Edited by wallythacker 2005-08-04 10:44 AM

Yep



I think they were, C:Amie probably knows more than me.



Very rare, its the first one we've had in ages.



Thats alot!



I think so, I live in the south so I don't know that area much.

Nick

This was our worst twister:

http://www.ontariostorms.com/1985/barrie/barrie.html

There's been nothing as intense in my area since then. Most of our twisters fizzle out at touchdown or rip through low population areas. IIRC there's been 6-8? confirmed touchdowns so far this year.

It looks like we have another 31-33c day with the humidex pushing it to 39-40c and more of our wicked electrical storms coming. We really are a country of extremes.

Definetly.



Nick