Sunday, July 27, 2014

A year of airplane disasters: Is 2014 a bad year for flying?

New Delhi: It’s almost halfway through the year, Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives (B3A) have reported 991 fatalities in 2014 already. Do you know this is double the number of plane crash casualties in 2013?

So, is 2014 could be the worst year for aviation? It’s surely been a bad year for flying. With four major airline tragedies on record, 2014 is quickly becoming the year of the airplane disaster. There is a lot of anxiety over boarding a plane is flying high for many people.

To being with the Malaysian Airlines MH370 that went missing in March earlier this year, three planes crashed within a week which took the number of airplane crash fatalities to over 900. The crash of an Algerian passenger plane is the third fatal airline incident in a week. The wreckage of an Air Algerie plane missing since early Thursday with 116 people on board has been found in Mali near the Burkina Faso border.
The incident came after the crash of TransAsia Airways flight GE222 in storms in Taiwan which claimed lives of 48 people while other 10 were injured.
Besides them, the loss of Malaysia Airlines MH370, with 239 people onboard, over the Indian Ocean and the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, with 298 people onboard, took the death toll to over 900. However, industry experts are working to comprehend the cluster of tragedies, while some believe there is no evidence of a systemic problem as each crash appears to have had a different cause.
 26/07/14 Dailybhaskar.com
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