Feb 26, 2009

Surviving from airplane crash


Even if you could imagine that, after so many people died in air plane crashes, everyone in a crashing air plane dies, the truth is that it really doesn't work that way as you may read on the article just below and which can be found on msbbc.com once again:

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BRUSSELS - Aviation experts say some recent airline accidents with few or no fatalities show that the chances of surviving crashes are better than ever.

They say fuselages are stronger, fire-retardant technology has been improved and plane crews are better trained to deal with disaster.

"Clearly, this is not just a matter of luck," William Voss, a former Federal Aviation Administration official who is president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., said Wednesday after most passengers and crew survived a jetliner crash in the Netherlands.

Many accidents don't have such outcomes, of course. Just two weeks ago, a commuter airliner crashed while trying to land in Buffalo, N.Y., killing all 49 people on the plane and a man on the ground.

But authorities say commercial flying is at its safest in a 100-year history.

"Contrary to popular belief, most aircraft crashes are now survivable," said Gideon Ewers, spokesman for the London-based International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations.

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