It all seemed to begin with the "Miracle on the Hudson" on 1/16/09. That was the first well televised- okay maybe over televised also- plane crash this year. Unfortunately that crash seems like the one with the best final results as well. I know many of us are heading out on Spring Break in a week or two and are hoping on planes only to cross our fingers and pray that our plane makes it to the destination in one piece.
Unfortunately a Turkish plane did not make it to Amsterdam in one piece, in fact it ended up on the runway in many pieces. Nine people were killed in the crash and 50 injured, 25 of them seriously. It is too early to tell what caused the crash but it does seem to be one of many in the first two months of the new year.
There have been a handful of others, one in Buffalo, Australia, Puerto Rico and the infamous Hudson crash. So are plane crashes really on the rise or is this just a coincidence?
Results are not in yet and hopefully this is all just a result of news stations choosing to give more attention to these accidents. So for your peace of mind odds of dying in a plane crashes with airlines with the worst safety ratings are 1 in 724,00 and with the best safety ratings 1 in 10 million. (Aviation Safety) So odds are in our favor!
PHOTO: Courtesy of CNN.com
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