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Why was the pilot going into descent over the alps, at cruising altitude, midway to the point of destination, when the plane should be on autopilot? Why no radio communication?
I fly and fly often. I have nothing against air travel. What I'm trying to say is, sure when u take a look at the numbers there are far less plane crashes and deaths over any other form of travel. With that said, I'd MUCH rather be in a vehicle when/if the engine fails instead of an airplane that's traveling at an altitude of 30k feet over the atlantic. I've been in a few car accidents and walked away. Cant say that I would feel as confident in saying that I would be able to walk away from an airplane crash!
I was born in 1969. I was unaware of trends in the 1970s, but in the 1980s crashes were far more common, especially domestically (in the United States).
Average rate of descent according to the altitude and time estimates before the plane crashed. 8 minutes of hell for the passengers. That's tragic. The average descent rate was 200+ meters/second if they crashed at 2500 m. Pretty fast for a controlled descent, wouldn't you say?
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Research on what?
Maybe my arithmetic is wrong, but i simply used the numbers for cruising altitude and descent duration that came from a danish website. I guessed at the crash elevation of 2500 m.
When you look at statistics, sure. What are the statistics of those who survive these types of plane crashes? Its pretty much certain death.
Why wouldn't you look at statistics? You're also wrong again:
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Looking at all the commercial airline accidents between 1983 and 2000, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 95.7% of the people involved survived. Even when they narrowed down to look at only the worst accidents, the overall survival rate was 76.6%. Yes, some plane crashes kill everyone on board. But those aren't the norm. So you're even safer than you think. Not only are crashes incredibly rare, you're more likely to survive a crash than not. In fact, out of 568 accidents during those 17 years, only 71 resulted in any fatalities at all.
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