Airplane Safety Research Paper

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Every day, small and large accidents occur like car crash, railroad accidents, or navication accidents. However, in every year, people like to focus on aviation accidents. Sometimes, after they heard of the fatal accidents, the cancel their airplane tickets for their safety. However, according to the BBC report, air transport is the safest. An airplane is six times safer than traveling by car; twice as safe as rail."" (‘Aviation Accidents and Incidents’) This result is based on a fatility per mile basis. CNN Money said that it only killed 0.06 people per a billion miles compared with truck and car crashes killed 5.75 poeple per a billion miles in the last five years. Through these studies, we can confirm that airplanes are not dangerous …show more content…

Also, most of the airlines show concern about training of flight attendants and captains. For exaple, Asiana Airline train hard their own flight attendants and pilots at least 3 months to minimize damage of the air crahses. In 2013, when Asiana airline’s Boeing 777 emergency landed on San Francisco’s airport, the airplne started burning. However, even if Asiana got terrible accidents, it caused very small loss. It killed only two people who seemed to be dead already or killed by the fire engine. "The airplane ended up a total loss. Yet of 291 passengers and 16 crew members, only two certainly died from injuries sustained on impact. A third traveler, Ye Meng Yuan, was run over on the tarmac by first responders at the site. A lawsuit is pending that will examine whether she was dead already or was killed by the fire engine. Asiana flight attendants are authorized to use their judgment to order an evacuation, according to training records released by the accident investigative agency, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board." (Negroni) This shows that training crews are very important." others are amazed that it took only about 90 seconds to get everyone off that plane, which was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew. The evacuation was also aided by some passengers who by and large remained calm on an airplane that was on fire, filled with smoke, its tail …show more content…

There are two factors that all 155 people could survive. One was safety lines, and the other was the rear slide rafts. Also they used two wings of airplane to save people. Since they used well their acted quickly and accurate, they could save people's lives. Not only flight attendants, but also captain tried hard to save all the poeple. "The pilot ditched in the icy Hudson River and all on board were rescued by a flotilla of converging ferries and emergency boats, the authorities said. When all were out, the pilot walked up and down the aisle twice to make sure the plane was empty, officials said. (Mcfadden) After people landed on Hudson River, they escaped all safely, and transferred to the rescue boats. Some describes their survivals was a

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