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> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually. Yeah. Hearing ATC repeatedly calling in and receiving no respons
by justsomehnguy 3y ago
> Commercial airliners crash into mountains even with the ground proximity warning actually.
Yeah.
Hearing ATC repeatedly calling in and receiving no response is a gut wrenching experience.
And maybe I just watch way less news than two decades ago, but reporting of the air incidents is way lower, especially if it happened somewhere elsewhere.
- Someone 3y agohttps://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm https://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm shows the number of crashes with 19 or more fatalities about halved in the past two decades. The total number of fatalities also about halved in that time frame. I think those data points explain at least part of the lower reporting.
- eep_social 3y agoAnd the time series on that page aren’t normalized to number of passenger-miles flown, which had been increasing rapidly through 2019.
- epolanski 3y agoSure, air travel is safer than it has ever been. I was just pointing out that better warnings did not eliminate the problem entirely as the title seems to suggest.