curse or cursed?
What's with the aviation in the past few days? When we flipped the papers or tune into CNA, its air disaster followed by one another. Is this a curse or is the aviation industry cursed? And if you do observe the trend, these air disasters followed closely to one another before it stopped and back with a new wave.
Saturday, Aug 12 2005:
A JAL (Japan Airline) DC-10 aircraft engine burst into flames in the mid air. The flight was bound for Honolulu on Friday evening. Luckily, no one was hurt on board and the aircraft made an emergency landing back at Fukuoka airport.
Sunday, Aug 14 2005
A Boeing 737, Helios Airways, departing from Larnaka crashed near Athens with 121 people on board including crew members. No survivors were found. Case is still under investigation but might have to do with the amid speculation of a sudden and catastrophic lack of oxygen in mid-flight that may have killed all the passengers and crew before impact. Decompression is a serious problem. With jet cruising at 30,000 feet, a decompression can make passengers unconscious within 10 to 15 seconds whilst, at a lower altitude of 10,000 feet, a passenger would still be able to breathe properly.
Tuesday, Aug 16 2005
All 153 passengers aboard the West Caribbean Airways plane had died in the crash in western Venezuela. The plane was headed to Martinique when its pilot reported trouble with both engines to the Caracas air control tower just after 3 a.m. Before crashing, the plane’s pilot had reported that both engines had failed, leading some to suspect fuel contamination. The ill-fated plane was filled with tourists returning home from Panama to the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
Are you scared to fly now?
Saturday, Aug 12 2005:
A JAL (Japan Airline) DC-10 aircraft engine burst into flames in the mid air. The flight was bound for Honolulu on Friday evening. Luckily, no one was hurt on board and the aircraft made an emergency landing back at Fukuoka airport.
Sunday, Aug 14 2005
A Boeing 737, Helios Airways, departing from Larnaka crashed near Athens with 121 people on board including crew members. No survivors were found. Case is still under investigation but might have to do with the amid speculation of a sudden and catastrophic lack of oxygen in mid-flight that may have killed all the passengers and crew before impact. Decompression is a serious problem. With jet cruising at 30,000 feet, a decompression can make passengers unconscious within 10 to 15 seconds whilst, at a lower altitude of 10,000 feet, a passenger would still be able to breathe properly.
Tuesday, Aug 16 2005
All 153 passengers aboard the West Caribbean Airways plane had died in the crash in western Venezuela. The plane was headed to Martinique when its pilot reported trouble with both engines to the Caracas air control tower just after 3 a.m. Before crashing, the plane’s pilot had reported that both engines had failed, leading some to suspect fuel contamination. The ill-fated plane was filled with tourists returning home from Panama to the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
Are you scared to fly now?
