http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1738513,00.html
"Aug 2: 309 escape death when an Air France A340 burst into flames on landing in Toronto
Aug 6: Tunisian aircraft carrying 39 from Italy crash lands in sea off Sicily, killing 13
Aug 14: Helios Airlines Boeing 737 crashes north of Athens, killing 121
Aug 16: West Caribbean Airways aircraft crashes in Venezuela, killing 160"
What's going on...
I forget: Is it statistically safest to fly now or not?
Flying is okay, it's crashing that's unsafe.
This month's stats indicate that only 25% survive a crash.
There's a higher risk of dying in a car accident than flying a plane.
I've always wondered about that old line.
What't the comparison metric? The chance of dying at any given moment in a car or in an airline? The chance of dying per kilometer travelled? What?
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
99% of those don't care about "comparison metrics".
According to some US statistic, walking is 36 times more dangerous than driving. :)
well look at the number of cars to the number of comerchal and privat aircraft...whene you look you will find that the chances for a crash in a car is greater because there are juest so many people driving(and i have seen alot of stupid drivers too) im shure that if the number of people flying where the same as the number of people right now driving acsadents would be juest as frequent
Sure, if you're walking in the middle of a highway.
>>8 Exactly.
As there are less chances of survival in a plane crash than an a car crash, if everybody had a plane a car would be safer than a plane, using the ratio numbers of car/plane crash vs number of survivors. Unless one uses Boeing's trick of comparing miles travelled, then it probably goes into the favor of the plane.
What I don't get is why they don't add an auto-landing autopilot. Or a remote-control for landing. To prevent abuse, the auto-land would have to be activated by someone on board. Or, the auto-land could be deactivated by someone on board, priority being given to the ones aboard over the control tower.
Four crashes? Must be because of the gas prices, damn cheapass airlines.
>>9
Walking on the sidewalk isn't much safer, if someone decides the right turn lane or parking lane isn't far right enough.
I once had a blind driver leave a parking lot and enter the roadway from the end of the crosswalk I was in; not crossing it, but driving down it. The only thing that really saved me was that he was approaching from in front of me and not from behind.
5GET
Yeah there has been a 5th one.
I'm holding on reporting the news because I can't find a news report that isn't contradictory one way or the other.
Why did the pilot try to crash land into a marsh?
Did the landing gear fail or was it intentional to not pull it out?
Why didn't he try to land on the nearby road? Was the road too small?
What kind of "bad weather" did the plane run into and what were the effects on the plane?
Also for all these other planes, I want to know if the companies were low-cost. Supposedly there is a practice done by the low-costs (and maybe regular companies too) to grab planes from plane graveyards and refurbish them. Was this the case here? Were those planes old planes? Hmm...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4172740.stm
"The Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece had lost cabin pressure and run out of fuel, investigators say."
"Mr Tsolakis said the plane's black box voice recorder indicated someone had repeatedly tried to send an emergency mayday signal."
"But the emergency calls were not picked up by Athens Air Traffic Control, possibly because they were being transmitted on the wrong frequency."
http://iafrica.com/news/sa/475967.htm
[Peru plane]
"Despite initial reports that the plane experienced problems with its undercarriage and landed without wheels, Tans spokesperson, Jorge Belevan told reporters the plane was coming in to land when strong crosswinds and turbulence caused it to crash.
Safair has sealed the plane's technical reports in accordance with South African Civil Aviation Authority regulations, and they will be made available to the investigating team should they be needed."
it's the aliens!
I have been thinking about that August Perseid Meteor Shower... I'm just not sure if all this fallout doesn't affect electronics in some way.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20050826-17523300-bc-us-asteroids.xml
"Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth's weather more than previously believed, say U.S., Canadian and Australian researchers.
Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division, the University of Western Ontario, the Aerospace Corporation, and Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it descended through Earth's atmosphere formed a cloud of micron-sized particles, significant enough to influence local weather in Antarctica."
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nSP165792&imageid=&cap=
"Sept 5 (Reuters) - Around 100 people are feared dead after an Indonesian Boeing 737-200 crashed into a residential area in the city of Medan on Monday just after takeoff, breaking into pieces and setting fire to homes."
"Speaking at a news conference in Jakarta, a Mandala official, Asril Tanjung, said the plane had been made in 1981 and was fit for eight more years of flying."