“It is noted that 2024 became one of the most tragic for aviation.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
It is noted that 2024 became one of the most tragic for aviation.
A plane crash in Washington struck the flames of fears about flights / Pixabay photoAmerican Airlines aircraft with 64 passengers and crew members collided in the air with a military helicopter during a ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington. This is one of several catastrophes in recent months.Euronews writes that experts say that planes are still the safest mode of transport.
Deadly catastrophes of US commercial airlines are a rarity.
A plane crash in Washington struck the flames of fears about flights. At the end of 2024, more than 200 people were killed in two incidents with a few days. It is about the death of 38 people in December, when the aircraft “Azerbaijani Airlines” crashed in Kazakhstan. Four days later, 179 people were killed during an emergency boarding Jeju Air in South Korea.
In addition, numerous reports on the entry of aircraft into a strong turbulence and injury to people, including one death on the Singapore Airlines flight, make travelers care about their safety.
According to Aviation Safety Network, in 2024, 318 people were killed in plane crash, which has been making 2024 the most fragile year in aviation since 2018.
“There was no case of commercial aircraft disaster for the whole of 2023. By 2024, the aviation industry has transported 5 billion passengers worldwide. And by the last few days 2024, he was ready to repeat this security record,” said Dr. Hassan Shahidi, President and CEO FLIGHT Safety Foundation, a non -profit aviation security organization.
According to research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is safer to fly today than ever.
According to the calculations, in the period 2018-2022 the risk of deaths during the flight was 1 for every 13.7 million passenger landings. This is less than 1 by 7.9 million landings in 2008-2017, and much less than 1 for every 350,000 landings in 1968-1977.
The study conducted by the Aeronautics Academy of the Embry-Hrydla showed that up to 80% of aviation events can be explained by the human factor. Pilot error is believed to cause 53% of accidents, while mechanical malfunctions are performed in only 21% of cases.
Airbus studied which part of the flight is the most dangerous, and found out that take -off and landing are the moments when crashes occur with the highest probability.
The small positive side of the terrible year experienced by aviation is that every accident makes air transportation safer in the future.
The American Airlines catastrophe is the main newsA few minutes before the plane was landed, the dispatchers asked American Airlines Flight 5342 to go for a shorter lane, the pilots agreed by adjusting their event.
In a few minutes, the plane collided with a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, on board a crew of three soldiers.
US President Donald Trump commented on the tragedy on his social networks. He expressed surprise by the actions of the helicopter pilot, as well as the passivity of dispatchers who did not prevent the military about the danger of collision with the passenger plane.
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