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Arnold Sten wrote:
Those four plane crashes were, in my opinion, not accidents, but deliberate and pre-meditated acts of suicide and murder. To me, that would explain why those did not make the list. Perhaps that Cypriot 737 that crashed in Greece should be considered an important one. Not because of failure of pressurisation system, but because the politicians, after 9-11, mandated a hurried implementation of the locked cockpit door system which proved fatal in the Cypriot 737 crash since the remaining conscious crewmember was prevented from entering the cockpit to save the situation until the door unlocked when fuel ran out, but by then, it was too late. There is also the issue of aircraft wiring. It wasn't a single accident/crash that changed aviation, but rather realisation after a number of incidents that aircraft wiring was a big problem. And in the case of the UA 747 near Hawaii, the conclusion was changed years later from human error to faulty aircraft wiring. TWA800 and SR111 were the more obvious accidents. The early A320 problems also showed that FAA and other certification agencies had antiquated testing procedures that did not ensure the software on an aircraft was reliable. Most of the A320 problems did not result in a crash, but still showed that the aircraft was put into service with less than acceptable software quality which should have been spotted before the aircraft entered commercial service. Aircraft certification tests were revised and subsequent aircraft introductions were far more reliable. I'd have to say though that Comet was probably the biggest one since it made engineers realise that pressurisation cycles affect aircraft structure and that has been a major impact on all subsequent aircarft. |
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