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Originally Posted by crockett
There is a lot more than one crash a year in the US, it's just most involve small private aircraft. Not many big jets crash though, which is kind of amazing when you do think about how old many of them are and how many flights there are.
The problem with aircraft though is they aren't built to crash, so when they do it's pretty much a done deal that everyone on board is gonna be dead. That one in NY that landed in the river was a one in a million event.
On the flip side this vid was posted here a while back but this is a pretty good one where the pilot was on the ball and did it right.
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Well i meant jet liner not small airplanes.. thats why i said the small airplanes scare the fuck out of me... take for example an airbus a330.. it has redundant wiring, backup computers, backup hydraulics, it can fly on one engine.. even if it loses power to both engines, a ramjet can generate power for the cockpit controls, etc etc
a single engined cessna propeller plane that loses the engine on takeoff = you are fucked..
a330 that loses one engine on takeoff = you are OK..
Besides, these jet airplanes have way more stringent maintenance procedures,plus they are basically built NOT to crash..