Ten Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation

"mrtravel" wrote in message
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Justin Case wrote:

"John Ewing" none@needed wrote in
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Indeed it did. But most US citizens would not have a clue where
Tenerife is.


You're as arrogant as the KLM Captain who caused that mess.


That may be true, but it doesn't change the facts.
I would guess the most Australians couldn't tell you where Tenerife is
either.

Simply put, the U.S. has had a larger number of commercial flights over the
past 100 years, so it has had a larger number of crashes.

You could argue about the ten that changed the world, but I think the
following definitely should be included:

1. The British Comet crashes (particularly "Yoke Peter") out of Rome, and
the next one, also out of Rome - BOAC;
2. The Lockheed L-188 Electra problems in the U.S. on Braniff (Buffalo,
Texas) and Northwest (Tell City, Indiana) (propeller "whirl" issues)
3. Tenerife (because of the shear number of victims and the influence on
Cockpit Resource Management) (KLM and PanAm)
4. Several of the Korean Air and China Air crashes including Guam, Hong
Kong, Taipei (also because of Cockpit Resource Management issues)
5. Aloha Airlines decompression and issue between Hilo and Maui, where the
top sheared off (because of metal fatigue issues - just like the Comets);
6. Pan Am Stratocruiser over the Pacific ocean in 1958 (because they were
able to ditch the airplane in the ocean and all passengers survived).