Press Conference - John Key - 28 November

28 November. Prime Minister's press conference on the Air New Zealand tragedy, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and the situation in Thailand. Followed by questions from the media.

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News & Politics

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• johnkey
• newzealand

[marzbar666]

Well handled imo - but could do with some louder audio - I had it cranked up to the max in windows, youtube & on my speakers, but struggled to hear the questions being asked of the PM.

[NZNats]

That's going to be an on-going problem with these until we can port the house microphones into our system. Right now that sound feed is out of synch with the image. Sorry!

[peakay3r]

my uncle died on that plane crash =[, Micheal Gyles, RIP, he left behind his 2 kids, age 11, and 13, and his wife

[EnigmaNZ1]

Really, I did a search on 320 crashes but didn't include all AB. That Mayday program on Prime on Sunday nights is a chiller. Especially the number of problems that have been previously identified but have gone unfixed.

[OmadGury]

you'll find that a lot of Airbus aircraft at the moment are making unexpected dives, the latest being the Qantas A330 which was only weeks ago...

[EnigmaNZ1]

I seem to recall a AB320 diving into the ground at an airshow when they were first introduced. They used a different type of flight system to existing aircraft, called fly by wire. Instead of physical linkages from flight controls to control surfaces, fbw has the controls linked into a computer which processes what the pilot is asking for and converts it into signals to the control surfaces. I think they used a joystick rather than a more usual wheel. Thank god it wasn't fill of passengers.