Flying in an airplane is one of the safest forms of transportation. However, airplane crashes do happen and when they do…they can be a flyers worst nightmare since the consequences can be catastrophic.
So what should you know about air travel and airplane accidents? You should know that you don’t have to fly in fear. The causes of these airplane accidents vary greatly depending on specific circumstances, but when flight crew and pilots do their jobs correctly, airplane accidents are much less likely to occur.
So what does happen when you mix airplane failure and human error? Here are ten possible scenarios.
1. Aborted Landings
Runway obstructions are usually the cause of aborted landings. Other planes may be sitting on the runway when a pilot is preparing to land forcing the other planes to move out of the way and the landing plane to make a detour. Aborted landings increase the chances mistakes will be made.
2. Defective Landing Gear
Defective landing gear can lead to panic and a rush of bad decisions. Nearly 100 people perished when Easter Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in 1972 due to faulty landing gear.
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3. Taxi Accidents
Taxi and takeoff accidents may not always be dramatic, but they can still create circumstances that kill or injure people. Moreover, psychological trauma is often an overlooked but very real result of these types of accidents.
4. Mechanical and Electrical Failures
Between 1950 and 2004, mechanical and electrical failure caused 13 percent of all airplane accidents. Unfortunately, hundreds of lives are at risk when these accidents occur on commercial planes.
5. Pilot Errors and Negligence
Pilot and flight crew errors can result in deadly airplane crashes accidents. Errors include bad or no planning, maintenance problems, botched maneuvers and sheer irresponsibility like pilot intoxication.
6. Faulty Flight Maneuvers
Before earning their licenses, pilots must master procedures like slow flight, steep turns, stalls and forced landings. Unfortunately, some licensed pilots can make mistakes during these maneuvers that will cost them their lives and the lives or their passengers.
7. Pilot Intoxication
Federal law prohibits pilots drinking alcohol within eight hours of a flight. However, even a hangover can be extremely dangerous for pilots. Hangover symptoms include dizziness, dry mouth, headache and drowsiness. A pilot shouldn’t fly if he has any of these symptoms.
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8. Rain
When it rains, pilots must deal with turbulence, tall, thick clouds, strong winds, ice, hail, lightning, bad visibility, tornadoes, electrostatic discharge, altimetry errors and, of course, wet runways. An American Airlines plane crashed while attempting to land in a thunderstorm in Little Rock, Arkansas during a 1999 storm.
9. Air Traffic Control Errors
Traffic control errors don’t always end in airplane crashes. Many errors are close calls. However, nobody wants to put their life at risk with close calls when they are traveling hundreds of miles per hour and thousands of feet above ground.
10. Structural Defects
Corrosion, surface cracks and fatigue cracks are all examples of structural defects. A flight attendant was blown out of an airplane in 1988 when a Boeing 737 experienced a ruptured fuselage that tore apart the cabin. The flight attendant fell to her death.
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Any type of aviation accident can be demanding and stressful for you. You and your family should be fully aware of their legal rights. Seeking help from an experienced personal injury attorney can help make sense out of chaos. Contact The Killino Firm, P.C. today.
Air Crashes
In this update of a classic book, Flying magazine editor Richard L. Collins explores the causes of many aviation accidents and tries to determine how to avoid the same fate. Each accident is reconstructed and made “on-the-spot” vivid by transcripts of cockpit conversations and the findings of official investigations. Diverse chapters cover pilot error, wind shear, mid-air collisions and more. Collins adds his notes to the end of each chapter, bringing his perspective to these accidents some 25 years later. One of the best books on risk management ever written.
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