Aeroplane Crashes

RE: Aeroplane Crashes

Safety surveys are senseless is terms of proving is an airline is safe or not, having a crash in which the airline couldn´t be responsible at all makes a certain airline goes down in the rank in an unfair way. Are SIA, SR less safe for having a crash?, I don´t think so. Having no crashes doesn´t mean anything at all.

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So why are so many people afraid of flying? We all know that it is the safest way to travel.

Is it because an air crash is so final! If somthing goes wrong you cant just get off and walk away, or swim. The fact is we cant fly, so we’re stuffed. Air crashes are also so dramatic, getting headline news and much publicity.

Perhaps it also has something to do with frequency. The majority of people will fly maybe just once perhaps twice a year, therefore never really becoming familiar with it. If we all flew as often as we drove, maybe it would be different. It would’nt become such a big event.

Or maybe its the fact that jo public is ignorant of the technicalities of flying, we all know how to drive, but flying we dont. Communication between pilot and passengers is limited, no one knows whats going on at the front of the plane. Im sure most people’s psyche when flying is ” this isnt natural, i,
shouldnt be up this high, whats keeping us up? Lots of people suffer enclosure problems too.
Perhaps we feel that for the length of the flight, our life is out of our control?!!!!!

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Juts one thing to say…..air travel is THE safest mode of transport in the world.

Kabir

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There are perhaps too many things to consider when talking about airline safety.

It does vary between airlines. An airline which comes from a volatile part of the world, say EL-AL for example, have stricter security measures for obvious reasons. I don’t know if this still happens, but I know in the 1980’s, arriving EL-AL aircraft at LHR used to be accompanied by armoured vehicles until it taxied to the gate.

Older aircraft are more costly to operate than newer ones, but if they are looked after, they will not crash. Look at how many DC-8’s and 707’s are still flying safely.

I would have thought an airport would have to more responsible for security than the airline itself, but the latter does have an obvious responsibilty too. A notable airport with regards to poor security was Athens in the 1970’s and 80’s. Several aircraft whose flights originated from this airport were hijacked, a TWA 727 being perhaps one of the more famoues ones.

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Well personally I think that it is a bit silly to start saying “which airline is the safest” e.t.c. At the end of the day, all 1st world airlines are maintained to more or less the same standard and that if any one particular plane crashes, it’s not really the airlines fault. For example, FLS aerospace at Manchester airport maintain a lot of aircraft for a lot of airlines including some Continental aircraft. So if a CO aircraft crashes, do we blame it on the airline? An air crash depends on a variety of factors, such as weather, component failure or human error…. very rarely on the aircraft. For example a (well looked after) former Brittania airways 737-200 augered into a jungle in South America a few years ago. Was it the fault of Brittania? or the fault of the new operating airline? No….. It was the fault of a dodgy artifical horizon (the 2 backups apparently failed).. so really it could be said that it ws just an unfortunate chanin of events………. The only airlines that you would be well advised not to go on would be your 3rd world/african/asian airlines (sudan airways/ethipoion airlines e.t.c.).. the reason??? well think about it…… are those mechanics really qualified to work on these aircraft? If so, why do they work there for £3 a week when they could (if qualified) get a much better paid job in the 1st world and where they are in great demand???????????? because they are’nt qualified to our standards, that’s why……… Go talk to the FAA/CAA they will tell you……… most of these airlines are banned from our airspace to start…………

Paul.

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Am i making this up or did i once read somewhere that aircraft designers were trying to develop some sort of bomb proof coating for new planes? Does this exist? Did they try and could’nt? A good idea though, hey?!!
What makes an airline safe! Arnt most accidents caused by the passengers and not the actual planes? If thats the case isnt it just a question of tight security! Does security differ from one airline to another? But for instance, take the recent episode of that guy running into the cockpit of a 747 and sending it into a dive!, does this make BA an unsafe airline?, no!! Such random acts surely bare no relation to the level of safety an airline has. In which case in’nt one airline just as likely to come under attack as another. What airport security guard could have detected that, if they could have they would.

Or does the safety of an aircraft reduce with age, thus making the airline’s with the youngest fleet the safest?!

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SAA has had at least two fatal crashes that I can think of. An
DC-10 skidded off an icy runway in NY sometime in the 80`s. Not too many years ago an MD80 crashed outside Oslo, or was it Stockholm, after the engines was clogged with ice due to poor
anti- icing work done by airport personell.
I`ve heard that Quantas still is the safest airline around. Was anyone killed/ injured in the overshooting incident with a 747-400 in Bangkok?

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Can we please STOP posting these childish “I think airline XXX is the safest in the world” bandwidth wasting messages.

As I have said many times, if you want to know the FACTS about airline accidents and safety, instead of purile opinions, a good place to start is http://www.airlinesafety.com/faq/faq2.htm.

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Hi,
I agree with you. I dont think that Air Canada is the safest airlines in the world. I have heard it is SAS.

cheers