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Updated 23 December, 10.15am
GARDAÍ ARE SEEKING the public’s help in tracing 37-year-old David Wakefield.
He has been missing from his home at Mill Farm, Lorrha, Co Tipperary since 8am Saturday 20 December.
David was last leaving the family home at Lorrha in his red Peugeot 407, registration number 02 D 741. There have being no further sightings, gardaí said.
David is described as:
When last seen he was wearing:
Gardaí and David’s family are concerned for his safety and are appealing for anyone with information to contact them at Nenagh Garda Station on 067 50450, the Garda Confidential Telephone Line 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.
UPDATE: 9am — 26 December, 2014. David has been found safe and well, according to Gardaí.
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Thoughts, prayers, respect and sympathy to all who have lost loved ones
Can we just clarify the malaysia airplane didn’t crash it was blown up in the sky so sick of hearing people saying it crashed when it clearly did not crash .R.I.P
Awful, awful awful.
Deepest sympathy to the families.
I hate the MD planes. They’ve been involved in a fair few decompression incidences, and had numerous problems with the structure. American airlines uses them and Iv never used AA since. They are terrifying planes to be on. I hope they take them off the market soon, Especially if this tragedy turns out to be something to do with the model.
I saw the aircraft involved about 4 weeks ago, here in Ireland, it looked immaculately maintained for an 18 yr old airframe. I don’t think it was a decompression, because it just suddenly dropped off radar. There could be a problem with the internals of the aircraft, possibly the T-tail, which has happened before, but i think i will wait for the official reports. And AA are replacing the MadDogs with A319′s currently.
And they have been off the market for years, but they are becoming rare in Europe.
And let’s remember why they were re branded from DC to MD – mainly because of the DC10.
Well main reason was Douglas Aircraft Corporation was bought by McDonnell, but the DC-10 was nicknamed the death chariot i think
Yeah the whole company got a bad rep. But Christ how many accidents does it take in order to remove faulty aircraft. I know the DC10s are out of service thank god- but the Super 8 is terrifying to fly on. Was on it last year to Florida and it got caught during a storm that AA knew was coming, but decided to fly through anyway. The plane got bashed around and couldn’t land because it couldn’t line up.
People where praying. It was awful.
If this does turn out to be another design flaw, they need to get rid of them all.
They are just old, i wouldn’t like to fly AA, they aren’t the best, but the MadDogs aren’t all bad…. I wouldn’t mind going on one again, but i have never had a bad experience on one, but there shouldn’t be a design flaw, and if it is, they won’t be taken out of service unless the fix is too expensive.
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