Is flying becoming more dangerous? Fears grow after American Airlines flight tragedy
Is flying becoming more dangerous? Fears grow after American Airlines flight tragedy
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There are expected to be no survivors after a passenger plane collided with a US army helicopter near Washington. A search and rescue mission is now underway, with 60 passengers and four crew members said to be onboard the American Airlines plane which crashed into the Potomac River.
Three soldiers were on board the helicopter. Twenty-seven bodies from the plane and one person from the helicopter have so far been recovered from the water, at the time of writing. Flight 5342 was on its way from Kansas when it suffered a rapid loss of altitude over the Potomac River. A full investigation is set to begin, with rescuers still pulling bodies out from the water.
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And on December 29, at Muan Airport, also in South Korea, the Jeju Air Flight 2216 overshot the runway and crashed – killing 179 of 181 people onboard. It has further added to the discussions around flight safety following several other high-profile accidents in the preceding years.
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Here is what can be deduced about the safety of flying. The American Airlines Flight 5342 was the latest of several high-profile incidents, with the two aforementioned instances in South Korea reigniting the discussion around safety. But the conversation kicked off in earnest in 2018 when a Lion Air flight crash landed in Indonesia before an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed a year later, killing all 157 on board.
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