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AIRPLANE ACCIDENT NEWS: Kentucky Plane Crash Kills 49
LEXINGTON, Kentucky (Reuters) - A Comair jet crashed and burned in a Kentucky horse pasture on Sunday after a failed takeoff, killing all but one of the 50 people aboard, authorities said. Flight 5191, a Canadair CRJ-100 bound for Atlanta, apparently used the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport, one that was much shorter and not meant to handle commercial flights, an aviation source said. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and officials of Comair, a unit of bankrupt Delta Air Lines, declined to discuss a suspected cause. Click Here for More information
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The airline industry is a heavily regulated and highly inspected one. Airlines are generally considered to be High Reliability Organizations, also known as HRO's. Due to the nature of, and services provided by, these organizations - human transportation - they must run extremely efficiently in order to provide prompt, and more importantly, safe service.
Unfortunately, due to the simple fact that they are run and operated by human beings, mistakes can, and do, occur. Men and women in the work place can make poor decisions; the Airline as a whole can make poor decisions, at times failing to adhere to the high standards set by the regulatory commissions. Provided below are airline accident statistics and safety procedures.
Essential Links:
- Quick Facts: Airline Accidents Statistics and Report: provides a glance at the expected rate of growth for the airline industry in the coming years, the effect this growth will have on passenger fatalities in the future and general statistics regarding the number of passenger fatalities in the past.
- Airline Safety Tips and The Lists of Prohibited Carry On and Checkable items for Airline Travel: Homeland Security PDF Document describing the items allowed on aircrafts. This document provides guidelines and explanations of those items that may be carried on the plane, what items must be checked before departure and which items are prohibited.
- NTSB ~ Survive Survivability of Accidents Involving Part 121 U.S. Air Carrier Operations, 1983 Through 2000 (PDF): The National Transportation Safety Board has published this document in an effort to provide the public with information pertaining not only to accident statistics, but also to crash survivability, a factor that had never truly been observed or quantified before the production of this report.
If you or someone you know has been injured in an airplane accident, you may be entitled to monetary compensation. To contact a lawyer who may be able to assist you in this matter, please fill out the Airplane Accidents form below. A personal injury lawyer reviewing plane accident cases will review your form pursuant to our sites terms and conditions.
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