re: #28 The War TARDIS

Strange thing is, the 777 has a great safety history. the Asiana Flight accident was clearly pilot error of some sort,.

So, why does a plane fall out of the sky without a single distress call?

The Asiana crash was partly due to an automatic landing, and some errors in determining the plane’s altitude above the ground.

There was another flight not long ago, Air France I think, that went down in the Atlantic off the coast of South America. They suspect some problems with the avionics, which led the pilots to believe the plane was OK while flying on instruments but in fact was approaching stall speed.