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Lack of debris and communication aside, the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and un
by xnull6guest 12y ago
Lack of debris and communication aside, the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual. The Ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia has resisted implications that the plane had crashed, insisting that MH370 was a CIA operation. The loss of the plane over the Ukraine, too, stirred up rumors of a hacked plane being used as a missile and also rumors that it was taken down by US Air Force to as a reputation tarnishing campaign and pretense for military action (plus countless others).
There's just not enough real information to gain certainty, and the number of plausible sounding theories create a cacaphony.
But one thing seems certain. The series of unusual, '(in)convenient' (a plane full of AIDs reseachers!) and mysterious circumstances have triggered enough minds to where is not controversial to conclude that something unusual and extraordinary is going on. I wonder if we'll ever know.
- jpatokal 12y ago> the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual No, not really. 2014 actually had less crashes of large planes (6) than any previous year on record, it's just that three of them were particularly large -- and the death toll was still less than 2005 (or 2002 or 2001 or 2000). http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
- xnull6guest 12y agoOh that's really interesting. Am I alone in the impression there were an unusual number of Asian (specifically) airliners that disappeared or crashed under unusual circumstances? I've recieved some other numbers (12; aviation-safety.com for 2014) but the consensus is that 2014 is the safest year on record.
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoProbably not. Considering that airline crashes are exceedingly rare on a per flight or per distance basis, what, exactly, are the usual circumstances of airline crashes?
- throwaway8843 12y agoI have followed Asian civil aviation for several years. The problems they face are: 1. underfunded startup airlines (Indonesia, India) 2. energetic and not well-understood equatorial Pacific storms 3. uneven quality of candidates and training 4. Asian cultural issues in the cockpit, esp. S. Korea 5. demanding weather (monsoons) and terrain (low-viz) The NTSB did a lot (well, everything) for the current safety of American airlines, but there's no comparable safety body in Asia. So Asian airline safety should really be compared with Africa, not the West.
- jpatokal 12y agoRe: "Asian cultural issues" and the tired old Malcolm Gladwell line about South Korean culture being unsuited to the cockpit, this post demolishes that pretty thoroughly. http://askakorean.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-and-airplane.html http://askakorean.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/culturalism-gladwe...
- ericson89 12y agoHow do you explain this? http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/ http://www.jacdec.de/airline-safety-ranking-2015/ And weren't both Malaysian disasters the result of foul play?