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What is going on with aircraft in this part of the world? Highly publicized crashes that claim hundreds of innocent lives for mysterious reasons. Is it just sh

• cjbprime 6y ago
  Yes, the accident rates do vary by country and airline, with factors like how experienced (in hours) the pilots are required to be, how well-trained they are, how old the aircraft are, how well-maintained they are, whether there is a robust safety culture in which people feel they can speak up against unsafe behavior both while in the air and on the ground..
• arnon 6y ago
  Lots of factors go into it. The routes, air traffic control, politics and "respect" in the cockpit, maintenance procedures, weather, age of aircraft, etc. Developing countries have it bad on most of the fronts. However, sometimes it's just freak accidents...
• netsharc 6y ago
  Black swan event? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory I can't remember the last air crash in SE Asia. Thousands of flights take off and land there safely every day... Edit to add: they're highly publicized because they're so rare. One of the last crashes in Indonesia I can recall is the 737MAX, and that's [Edit: Wrong info! It crashed October 2018!] almost 2 years ago (March 2019).