Plane with Australian mining executives missing in Africa
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[QUOTE](CNN) -- Australian mining magnate Ken Talbot is among nine passengers in a plane reported missing after it took off from Cameroon en route to the Republic of the Congo, his company said Sunday.
Most of the passengers aboard the chartered flight were employees of Australian mining company Sundance Resources, including some executives.
Talbot, 59, is the director of Sundance, said Brian Thornton, a spokesman for Talbot Group.
The plane had taken off from Yaounde on Saturday. It was reported missing after it failed to land in Yangadou in the Republic of Congo.
The group was visiting Sundance's iron ore project in Cameroon and Congo, according to the company.
"The families of the missing have been notified and are being supported during this deeply distressing time," the company said.
A search was under way between the takeoff point and the intended destination. Military forces in Congo and Cameroon were helping in the search, the company said.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/cameroon.missing.plane/index.html?hpt=T2[/url]
Australia now bans Africa from its shores.
On average, 3 planes crash a day which leads to 900 something planes crashing every year.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;22763217]On average, 3 planes crash a day which leads to 900 something planes crashing every year.[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing that most of those are smaller, less important planes
[QUOTE=rob54362;22763524]I'm guessing that most of those are smaller, less important planes[/QUOTE]
Because Australian mining executives are far more important than anyone else :downs:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22763151]Source: [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/cameroon.missing.plane/index.html?hpt=T2[/URL]
Australia now bans Africa from its shores.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vkJLw8cUs&feature=related[/media]
Dead.
Meanwhile, in Africa...
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I wonder if they have tried searching the closest strip club.
I wish this was ironic so I could say it was [i]Iron[/i]y.
But it's not so I guess that sucks for me. And them.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22763648]Because Australian mining executives are far more important than anyone else :downs:[/QUOTE]
small planes don't usually carry 9 people + pilots
Most likely dead.
Hope the pilot's ok.
Farcry 3
Try looking in the same prison as those guys from norway
Confirmed all 11 dead.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/21/cameroon.missing.plane/index.html?hpt=T2[/url]
[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;22790432]Confirmed all 11 dead.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/21/cameroon.missing.plane/index.html?hpt=T2[/url][/QUOTE]
I feel bad for the pilot :(
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;22763648]Because Australian mining executives are far more important than anyone else :downs:[/QUOTE]
This
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vs
This
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Which one is more important? That's what he was talking about. Smaller, private planes have better chance of crashing than huge jumbo jets full of hundreds of people.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;22790462]This
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vs
This
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Which one is more important? That's what he was talking about. Smaller, private planes have better chance of crashing than huge jumbo jets full of hundreds of people.[/QUOTE]
Only because large commercial airliners have many redundant features on them. Like more than 1 engine.
[B]Warning! Any one other than Australians wont get the following joke![/B]
Kevin Rudd killed them to stop the mining tax protest.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;22791288][B]Warning! Any one other than Australians wont get the following joke![/B]
Kevin Rudd killed them to stop the mining tax protest.[/QUOTE]
Fuck, I knew it was an inside job.
Surface-to-air vuvuzelas.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;22790879]Only because large commercial airliners have many redundant features on them. Like more than 1 engine.[/QUOTE]
And more than 1 mining executive.
[QUOTE=DireAvenger;22791404]Fuck, I knew it was an inside job.[/QUOTE]
It's part of his bag of tricks and excuses.
Except the tricks are real.
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