Experts say full survival rates in air crashes grow more common
An Aeromexico flight carrying 103 people crashed just after taking off from an airport in northwestern Mexico, forcing passengers to escape via emergency slides before the aircraft went up in flames. No one died. And although that might be surprising to many people, it's in line with recent developments in aviation safety, CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo said Wednesday.
"It's actually getting to be more typical, more the rule than the exception," Schiavo said, noting that no one dies in 87% of air crashes, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization. "It's the science of crashworthiness that has really improved over the last 20 years to help people survive a crash," Schiavo said. "Before then, you used to think a plane crash (meant) everyone would die. Not so anymore."
For example, she said, all aboard survived when an Air France jetliner overran a runway in Toronto in 2005, and when a Singapore Airlines plane burst into flames in the city-state in June 2016. Just three passengers died when an Asiana Airlines flight crashed at San Francisco's airport in July 2013.
A bionic priest and a web designer were on the Aeromexico flight.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:25PM
Fatal crashes were always kinda rare and when aviation was wealthier thats the only kind they had; the kind of pilot who can't keep it on the runway was weeded out by the Air Force years before flying a jetliner.
To some extent this minor stuff is a symbol of more, less selective, poorer paid, pilots.