A deadly medium -sized collision that includes a commercial plane and an army helicopter. Multiple crashes in different countries. The planes that catch the fire and even turn upside down.
In the last two months, global commercial air travel has been shaken by more than half a dozen unusual accidents that have caused concerns about the aviation security situation. And in the United States, this comes amid a worrying number close to gaps and continuing concerns about adequate air traffic control.
With every incident, the videos are circulating close to instant and widely online, injuring more travelers, who say the recent appearance of airplane incidents raised their concerns. Jaimee Rindy, a 28 -year -old living in Atlanta, said he had a fear of flying a few years ago. This feeling has become more intense in recent months, he said.
“It’s hard to feel safe when you are completely out of control and when you really have no sense of what is happening while you are on the aircraft,” Mrs Rindy said. “After all, this is the most frightening part of being a passenger. It’s the loss of confidence in the industry.”
Does the flight become more dangerous? And what, if anything, do passengers really do to stay safer in the event of an emergency? We discussed many experts to find out more.
Recent cases, which are still being investigated, cover different countries and types of airplanes.
During the last two months, the fatal crash in South Korea, the United States and Azerbaijan have occurred. In the United States, some incidents involved commercial planes, while others were on smaller private planes subject to less strict security requirements. Of all the aircraft, large commercial planes are required to meet the stricter security regulations.
Not all incidents were deadly. All 80 people on the Delta Air Lines flight who rushed to Toronto International Airport Pearson on Monday afternoon survived, even after the plane turned upside down on the asphalt, with his right wing and tail.
Jeff Guzzetti, a former accident researcher for the Federal Air Force Administration and the National Transport Security Council, said it was too early to identify the common factors linking recent accidents involving US bodies that included the conflict of the media. National Airport Reagan on January 29 and participated in the crash of a 10 people aircraft in Alaska on February 6th. “Myriad issues”, including weather and FAA policies, participated, he said.
The flight remains the safest mode of transport.
Experts stressed that the flight is by far the safest form of travel.
Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics at the Mit Sloan administration school, said the risk of death on flight is close to zero. High profile accidents for late are a coincidence, he said.
“Twelve million airplanes to the Board of Directors every day, on average, every year,” Mr Barnett added. “The overwhelming majority of the days is not injured by a passenger, let alone killed.”
Life returns dying in a car accident are about 1 in 95, according to the National Security Council.
But recent accidents should cause careful analysis and vigilance of “possible shortcomings in the system,” Mr Guzzetti said. The DC conflict was the most fatal accident involving an airline in the US to happen over over a decade.
Whether security in commercial aviation is degraded, is a possibility that should be taken into account, said Kyra Dempsey, who writes about airline accidents on a blog, Admiral Cloudberg. He added that FAA cuts are a tracking factor.
The most important security tip? Wear your seat belt at any time.
Experts recommend the use of your seat belt throughout the flight. The hearing of security updates provided by stewards is another critical precaution, said Sara Nelson, president of the CWA Leaders’ Union, who represents about 55,000 stewardesses at 20 airlines.
Flight employees train an emergency annually, Ms. Nelson added. This includes everything, from handling of unruly passengers to cabins to cabins to water evacuations.
There may really not be a safer part of the plane to sit.
John Cox, a former pilot of the airline managing a security company, said the investigation was not unclear as to whether there was a safer part of a plane. Some travelers believe it is the back, because of the way it absorbs energy during a collision, minimizing the injury to the passengers, but both Mr Cox and Mr Guzzetti rejected this concept.
“It just depends on the crash dynamic,” Mr Cox said. “Don’t worry about where you sit down.”
Travelers cannot predict what kind of accidents could be in. But in order to avoid turmoil, Mr Cox recommends sitting “over the middle of the wing”.
Think about buying a seat for your child and putting them in a car seat.
Many airlines generally allow parents to hold children under 2 in their rounds instead of buying a place for the child. However, both FAA and NTSB constitute against this practice, encouraging parents to use an approved child retention system. The uncontrolled children in the round can fly from a parent’s hands during emergency, such as serious turmoil, and are more prone to injury than children who are not in rounds, according to a 2019 study by National Institutes of Health.
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