There haven't been any commercial aircraft crashes
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They just dont seem to carsh anymore in the western world, i remember a few years back they were predicting 1 a week with the increase in flights we have now but does not seem to be happening. When was the last western world air crash, swiss air over nova scotia? or maybe the crash on approach to JFK, AA airbus i think.
flying a week tomorrow!Unfortunately, we do get crashes in the "west" from time to time. Thankfully, they are quite rare. The most recent serious accident I can think of was last year when an MK Airlines cargo 747 crashed on take off from Halifax, Nova Scotia - possibly due to the cargo shifting. All on board were killed although, being a cargo flight, the death toll was only 5 or 6.
The American Airlines Airbus accident happened as it was climbling out of JFK after take off. It experienced severe turbulence from a Japan Air Lines 747 which was a few miles ahead of it. Although the turbulence was severe, it wasn't sufficient to damage the Airbus. However, the crew over reacted to the turbulence and applied too much correcting rudder which overstressed the tail fin causing it to break off.
The American Airlines Airbus accident happened as it was climbling out of JFK after take off. It experienced severe turbulence from a Japan Air Lines 747 which was a few miles ahead of it. Although the turbulence was severe, it wasn't sufficient to damage the Airbus. However, the crew over reacted to the turbulence and applied too much correcting rudder which overstressed the tail fin causing it to break off.
Eric Mc said:
Unfortunately, we do get crashes in the "west" from time to time. Thankfully, they are quite rare. The most recent serious accident I can think of was last year when an MK Airlines cargo 747 crashed on take off from Halifax, Nova Scotia - possibly due to the cargo shifting. All on board were killed although, being a cargo flight, the death toll was only 5 or 6.
The American Airlines Airbus accident happened as it was climbling out of JFK after take off. It experienced severe turbulence from a Japan Air Lines 747 which was a few miles ahead of it. Although the turbulence was severe, it wasn't sufficient to damage the Airbus. However, the crew over reacted to the turbulence and applied too much correcting rudder which overstressed the tail fin causing it to break off.
The tail fin was up to design spec but the designers did not envisage that such force would ever be applied to the rudder. The pilots were a bit heavy handed on the rudder. Aparently other airlines had been warned not to do what they did and a big court case ensued over who was responsible, Airbus vs AA i believe. Regarding the Cargo crash, they dont count. I was talking about fare paying passenger accidents in large aircraft 737 and up. When was the last accident? random airlines dont count either
Blimey, it's being so cheerful that keeps you lot going, eh?
You're far more likely to die by being struck my
lightning whilst collecting your National Lottery
triple-rollover winner's cheque than you are you die
as a passenger on a scheduled public transport
air-carrier (provided the country of registration
does not end in 'stan').
You're far more likely to die by being struck my
lightning whilst collecting your National Lottery
triple-rollover winner's cheque than you are you die
as a passenger on a scheduled public transport
air-carrier (provided the country of registration
does not end in 'stan').
Eric Mc said:
Confirmed, no serious 777 accidents yet after almost 10 years of service. Not bad but sooner or later one will meet an untimely end. The 757 had a fantastic record until two were lost within a few months of each other for totally different reasons.
Eric Mc said:
2004 was a very good year for commercial air safety. 2005 is looking good so far but all you need these days to screw things up is a fully loaded 747 to go down somewhere and instantly you have a very bad year.
Eric Mc...... PH Harbinger of Doom
FourWheelDrift said:
www.planecrashinfo.com/2005/2005.htm
Looking at that, best not fly in an Antonov then
Mikey G said:
<a href="www.planecrashinfo.com/2005/2005.htm">www.planecrashinfo.com/2005/2005.htm</a>
Looking at that, best not fly in an Antonov then
To be fair, Russian engineering is pretty much the
only thing going to get you airborne in some
of these arse-end-of-beyond sh*te-hole locations -
if you tried to operate with the equivalent Western
gear, it would have a nervous breakdown and quietly
die inside of a month. A lot of the problems are
operational and procedural, not fundamental problems
with the gear.
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