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From the post: > Lastly, one other safety lesson which came from flight 242 may not have come about due to any recommendation or research project: among pilots
by CrazyStat 3y ago
From the post:
> Lastly, one other safety lesson which came from flight 242 may not have come about due to any recommendation or research project: among pilots, it seems that the crash permanently killed the idea of landing large airliners on highways. This Hollywood staple makes for good cinema, but in real life it usually ends in catastrophe — and while McKenzie and Keele were not the first to discover this, they were the last, as no passenger jet pilot has tried again since.
I'm sure the author is aware that small planes still occasionally land on highways.
- genewitch 3y ago> killed the idea of landing large airliners on highways says so right there. The author explains stuff in a way for laypersons to understand. I actually prefer some of the imprecise "color" the author ads to his write-ups of crashes. as an aside i imagine the damage to the road surface (and probably subsurface) would be astounding.