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> The last time a US airline crashed was on February 12, 2009, in New York State. Fifty people died.1 This is just wrong. Atlas Air Flight 3591 was in 2019, wi
by sofixa 2y ago
> The last time a US airline crashed was on February 12, 2009, in New York State. Fifty people died.1
This is just wrong. Atlas Air Flight 3591 was in 2019, with the loss of 3 souls on board. And it was a regularly scheduled airline flight, just cargo, not passenger. Still an airline crash by a US airline on US soil.
Also, Alaska Air 1282 was a very near miss, and it's only pure luck that the door didn't take parts of the tail with it, which could have been catastrophic.
- HPsquared 2y agoThe denominator is "passenger mile", those don't have passengers. Would be interesting to look into whether cargo flights have higher accident rate than passenger flights.
- sokoloff 2y agoIf you include all the feeder aircraft routes (lots of single-engine Grand Caravans and the like), it’s much, much worse than US airline passenger flights. Reasons include a mix of equipment, flying on the wrong side of the clock (often by low-time pilots with other jobs), lots of single pilot ops, driving for the lowest possible cost and highest dispatch rate, less oversight (and a little bit more cowboy as a result), and lots of short legs to airports with shorter runways, fewer runways, and often less services (snow removal, ATC, de-icing, etc.)
- sofixa 2y agoYes, but this is from the introduction of the article. It isn't until the 6th paragraph of the article, after the part I quoted in the 5th one, that they mention anything about passengers. Before that it's all about "(air)plane crashes" and "US airlines", no mention of passengers at all.
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