Airbus A320 Crashes in the French Alps (Boeing)

[Chava61]

Passenger plane crashes in the French Alps - Israel News, Ynetnews

[Ethereal]

It's scary how these plane crashes are happening more frequently. Like, every 2-4 months or so.

Let's hope there'll be some survivors. Crashing on land isn't always fatal.

[Sherifftruman]

It seems like they are happening more often, but if you actually check, they are not. Both Deaths and Accidents are on a downward trend.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/...aviation-data/

[louie0406]

Air travel is the safest form of travel though.

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by Theropod

It's scary how these plane crashes are happening more frequently. Like, every 2-4 months or so.

Let's hope there'll be some survivors. Crashing on land isn't always fatal.

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). Fatal crashes of airliners (not regionals, either - I'm talking DC-10s, the Boeing 7xx series, TriStars, etc.) were a regular occurrence happening multiple times every year in the U.S. alone. Now? Since 2001 (the Airbus that went down in Queens in November of that year) there have been very few large wide-body or narrow-body hull-loss incidents. There was the one at SFO a couple years ago (three fatalities) - can't recall the next most recent one. Further, the big, catastrophic disasters have become very rare - even double-digit fatality counts (which happened half a dozen times or more annually in the U.S. in the 1980s) have happened, what, maybe a handful of times if that in the last dozen years? And all this while the number of flights constantly increases.

[Not_liking_FL]

Originally Posted by louie0406

Air travel is the safest form of travel though.

It is the safest form of travel.

"The A320 family also has a good safety record, with just 0.14 fatal accidents per million takeoffs, according to a Boeing safety analysis."

[dkf747]

24 year old plane. Man, how time flies! I still think of them as newer planes.

[howard555]

How many fatal crashes occur at night.....MH370, Air Asia, Air France, TWA, Swiss Air, and now GermanWings. Makes you not want to fly at night. Day time maybe fisherman in the seas of Asia might see the plane come down, other planes in the area might see something, etc.

[louie0406]

Originally Posted by Not_liking_FL

It is the safest form of travel.

"The A320 family also has a good safety record, with just 0.14 fatal accidents per million takeoffs, according to a Boeing safety analysis."

When you look at statistics, sure. What are the statistics of those who survive these types of plane crashes? Its pretty much certain death.

[glass_of_merlot]

This type of airplane ( airbus) is fully automated with no reversal if the computers fail. Something to think about.