Tuesday 9 June 2009

Airbus Boycott?

I think most frequent flyers have noticed the unusually high number of aviation incidents lately. If you didn't, then take note. Most notable were:

  • May 2009: Air France's Airbus A330 disappeared off the face of the earth [Link].
  • Feb 2009: 50 people were killed when a small Colgan Air aircraft crashed into a house (Donnie? Donnie Darko?) [Link].
  • Oct 2008: Qantas' Airbus A330-300 suddenly dropped in altitude [Link].
  • Sept 2008: Boeing 737-300 crashes in Russia, killing all [Link].
  • Aug 2008: Spanair's MD82 aircraft catches fire, 153 dead [Link].
  • July 2008: Qantas' Boeing 747-400 developed a case of a hole in its fuselage while in mid-air [Link].
  • June 2008: Airbus 310 crashes in Sudan [Link].
  • Dec 2007: The year ended with another big crash in Turkey which killed all 57 people
    on board [Link].
  • Sep 2007: Jetliner skids off the runway in Phuket [Link].
  • Aug 2007: Twin Otter DH6 Turboprop crashes in French Polynesia, killing 20 [Link].
  • July 2007: 191 died in Brazil as an Airbus A320 came in to land too fast in one of the country's worst aviation disasters [Link].
  • June 2007: Plane crashes in Cambodia. Toddler is sole survivor [Link].
  • May 2007: 114 dead as Kenyan plane crashes into swamp [Link].
  • Jan - Mar 2007: 2007 was a particularly bad year for Indonesian airlines, with 3 aviation accidents in the first quarter of the year alone, one in each month. Not kidding. Quite unfortunately for Boeing, they were all Boeing 737s [Link].
I started to compile the list of passenger plan incidents since 2007 but it got too depressing after I got this many. There was an accident in virtually every month of 2007. It's pretty ridiculous, and it really doesn't help my recently developed fear of flying. Wtf.

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