G9H wrote Were in the year 2013, This should not happen with the tech we have.

Slip ups are going to happen all the time.

Cokes wrote

G9H wrote Were in the year 2013, This should not happen with the tech we have.

Slip ups are going to happen all the time.

Yes that is true, nobody is perfect!

Wzd wrote I'm going on a plane next year.. hopefully there are no reported crashes between now and then

Sadly there probably will be, and apparently it is one in every two million flights, a very small chance. Even though there has been two, one was pilot error and the other wasn't, so it doesn't really count as in the two million flights.

Bath wrote

Wzd wrote I'm going on a plane next year.. hopefully there are no reported crashes between now and then

Sadly there probably will be, and apparently it is one in every two million flights, a very small chance. Even though there has been two, one was pilot error and the other wasn't, so it doesn't really count as in the two million flights.

Hopefully it doesn't happen to my flight

Systematics wrote I agree, with the technology we have nowadays planes shouldn't be crashing. Makes me think twice about flying again..

I'm going to re-post the same thing I've been posting in light of the other recent crashes:

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Anticipate wrote I'm going on a plane this year, and I keep seeing crashes, so that scares me and Rest in piece to those people who died in the plane.

-Gibbo wrote Im flying in 11 hours, i hate planes as it is, so seeing this all over the news has made me mentally unstable haha..

Commuting by aviation is the single safest method of travel in the world, unless you want to walk (and it might even be safer than walking). You're more likely to die on the way to the airport than you are to ever be in any sort of aviation incident, fatal or otherwise.

A study concluded that, to be involved in a fatal airliner crash, you would have to fly non-stop for 70 years, getting off a plane and right back on.

Commercial aircraft are over-engineered; designed not to fail, and if something does fail, redundancy measures allow the pilot to easily recover. For example, a Boeing 737 series only needs one engine to do its job, but it has two. Should one fail, you can still land safely. Until two days ago, there hadn't been a fatal airline incident in the U.S. in years.

I've been a pilot for more than 8 years, and I've flown everything from gliders to regional jets to a Lockheed T-33 (only once, it was neat though) and the absolute worst incident I've ever had was an emergency landing in a glider, after a rope broke on tow. Even though it was an 'emergency' landing, I was able to do some thermalling, a bit of vanity flying, and only after I had my fun did I enter the traffic pattern to land.

Now, a little more on-topic, this is what I said in the other thread about this crash:

I read about this incident while I was on a Southwest flight from Salt Lake City. I talked to a gentleman who was supposed to fly into LaGuardia, but his flight was canceled, and he ended up arriving in Baltimore at 4 A.M.