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Surviving an Airliner Crash
This week’s crash of Asiana 214 was a terrible event with great miracles – the survival of 305 people out of 307 onboard the airliner. When I initially wrote about the accident, I said I would follow up with some … Continue reading →
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Tagged able-bodied passengers, airliner accidents, airplane crash, airplanes, airspeed, altitude, Asiana 214, avoiding panic, emergency, emergency exit, engine failures, fear of flying, flight attendants, flying, flying as a passenger, judgment, memorize the way out, pilots, pre-flight safety brief, professional pilots, seat location, smoke, surviving a plane crash, Surviving an Airliner Crash, survivors
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The Miracle of Asiana 214
Two dead, 182 injured, six in critical condition of 307 souls onboard. What happened yesterday, July 6, 2013 at San Francisco International Airport was truly a miracle. On short final, the Boeing 777 touched down short of the runway breaking … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying
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Tagged accidents, airplanes, airspeed, altitude, Asiana 214, Boeing 777, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, commercial aviation, discipline, emergency situations, engineers, fear of flying, fears about flying, Federal Aviation Administration, human factors, investigators, media coverage, Miracle on the Hudson, modern aircraft, National Transportation Safety Board, pilots, professional pilots, San Francisco International Airport, survivability, the safest mode of transportation
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