3 ms·
Unrelated other than being an airplane incident, but I recently was reading up on BOAC flight 911[1] while in Japan, and the full story about how many other air
by rconti 2y ago
Unrelated other than being an airplane incident, but I recently was reading up on BOAC flight 911[1] while in Japan, and the full story about how many other air disasters occurred to Japan that year, the plane taxiing past the wreckage of the previous day's crash, passengers who were on BOTH planes, and the Albert Broccoli connection.... just crazy.
Oh and I happened to be on JL2 on Friday, which thankfully landed uneventfully on the tarmac at SFO.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911
- wkat4242 2y agoThose were different times though. Aviation safety has become really good especially because of all the thorough investigations and things actually getting fixed. In those days passenger jets were fairly new, there was still a lot of cowboying around in cockpits (no 10.000 foot rule, no crew management standards), there was no standard phraseology (which caused the Avianca fuel exhaustion crash). So many things have been learned.