Surviving a Plane Crash Isn’t Just Luck. It’s About Doing These Things.
1 week, 6 days ago

Surviving a Plane Crash Isn’t Just Luck. It’s About Doing These Things.

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. So while many people hear the phrase “air accident” and imagine flying into the side of a mountain, plunging into an ice-clogged river, or bursting into flames midair, those horrible events really are the outliers. While flying a Navy transport plane across a remote region of Iceland, he lost both engines in an ice storm and had to land on a desolate beach on the country’s frigid southern coast. “People don’t survive plane crashes, that’s what I thought,” Schemmel told me. While fatalities are rare in air accidents, there are plenty of instances where passengers need to get off the plane fast, and it won’t be pretty.

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Recent air traffic disasters have fliers nervous - but how worried should you be when heading to the skies?
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Recent air traffic disasters have fliers nervous - but how worried should you be when heading to the skies?

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Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying
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Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying

Associated Press  

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Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying
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Recent aviation disasters cause fears about the safety of flying

Associated Press  

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Air safety 2023: Accidents and fatalities at record low
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Air safety 2023: Accidents and fatalities at record low

The Independent  

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Aviation safety in 2022: 174 lives lost but fatal accident rate remains extremely low
2 years, 2 months ago

Aviation safety in 2022: 174 lives lost but fatal accident rate remains extremely low

The Independent  

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Safer skies: Plane crash fatalities fell significantly in 2019
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Safer skies: Plane crash fatalities fell significantly in 2019

Al Jazeera  

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20 fatal crashes, 280 deaths. But 2019 still among safest years for commercial flights in 74 years
5 years, 2 months ago

20 fatal crashes, 280 deaths. But 2019 still among safest years for commercial flights in 74 years

India Today  

The year 2019, like any other year, was a year of air accidents around the world. When it comes to the number of fatal air accidents, 2019 was the seventh safest year in the past 74 years since the Second World War. The safest year in terms of deaths was 2017, which witnessed 44 deaths in 10 fatal air accidents …

How to maximise your safety when you fly
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How to maximise your safety when you fly

The Independent  

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Commercial Airliners Had Their Safest Year Ever, Flight Trackers Say
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Commercial Airliners Had Their Safest Year Ever, Flight Trackers Say

NPR  

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The one chart that shows what causes fatal plane crashes
9 years, 6 months ago

The one chart that shows what causes fatal plane crashes

The Independent  

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I'm A Pilot, And No, I'm Not Afraid To Go To Work Today
10 years ago

I'm A Pilot, And No, I'm Not Afraid To Go To Work Today

Huff Post  

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