According to the National Transportation Safety Board, turbulence is responsible for 75 percent of all weather-related aircraft crashes. Severe turbulence can structurally damage the airplane and cause the pilot to lose control, which may in turn lead to a crash. Even in airplanes that do not cra...
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Although passengers are told to brace for impact in small crashes, being in the brace position can potentially do more harm than good in a large crash. Some skeptics insist that the crash impact may be enough to break the spinal column and other bones, as well as damage organs when in ...
On peak travel days, there can be more than16,000 planes in the airat any time. There are around 4 billion air travel passengers each year, and the number isexpected to double by 2035by some estimates. The vast majority of these flights pass without incident. However, when an emergency ...
Oliver goes through the history of the company in depth, providing context for the recent safety issues. It's allfitting and in line with the reportingin 2018 and 2019 after two Boeing 737 Max crashes killed 346 people. SEE ALSO:'Aggressive and riskier' A.I. — and bureaucracy — caused...
Most plane crashes are ‘survivable’ The 29 survivors of Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243, which crashed on December 25, were all at the rear. Issa Tazhenbayev/AFP/Getty Images First, the good news. “The vast majority of aircraft accidents are survivable, and the majority of people in acci...
The Uruguayan rugby team’s 1972 plane crash inspired the new Netflix film. It tells a story of disaster, endurance, death—and cannibalism.
September 11, 2001 was the date of several terrorist airplane crashes in the US. The impact of the September 11 attacks was huge...
More About This Book Courage Has No Color: The True Story Of The Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers Tanya Lee Stone What's it like to jump out of an airplane? Imagine. These are the opening sentences which chronicle the courage and persistence of the Triple Nickles, the ...
The suicide prevention movement could use more movement. We know who is dying, how they are dying, and why they are dying. To stop the dying we need action; not from the few of us knee deep in this work, but from all the rest. It’s time for the fretful, the critics, and the ...