Plane Crashes Lately

Man is it me or are there a lot of plane crashes lately? I was thinking maybe UFOs? lol but idk maybe they just need better planes? or are they just reporting plane crashes more often?

There are more plane crashes, which is why they report on them more
often, which strengthens the feeling of more plane crashes even more.

So stronger the feeling the of crashes more crashes?

The one that just happened was with 17 children going for a ski trip.
Didn't make it.

IMO its mainly poor inspections of the planes, they battled with this i think in early of 08, I swear they pay more attention inspecting my car then they do huge metal things caring loads of people in the sky!!

Flight 1546 if I remember correctly had reported some problems two days prior to it meeting the hudson.

Originally posted by Republican08
The one that just happened was with 17 children going for a ski trip.
Didn't make it.

IMO its mainly poor inspections of the planes, they battled with this i think in early of 08, I swear they pay more attention inspecting my car then they do huge metal things caring loads of people in the sky!!

Flight 1546 if I remember correctly had reported some problems two days prior to it meeting the hudson.

The USAir flight had a bad temperature probe in the right engine. That was fixed and verified, and had nothing to do with the accident.

The reason that it seems there are more crashes is because there are a lot more planes flying. A lot of the crashes are also general aviation, not commercial. General aviation has ALWAYS had a much higher accident rate than commercial aviation.

Doesn't seem to be an increase....numbers are all over the place.



Here are the Statistics the National Transportation and Safety Bureau has posted for plane accidents in the US from 1988 to 2007:

1988 30
1989 28
1990 24
1991 26
1992 18
1993 23
1994 23
1995 36
1996 37
1997 49
1998 50
1999 51
2000 56
2001 46
2002 41
2003 54
2004 30
2005 40
2006 33
2007 26

From wiki answers

Yes its just because there is more people.
So there is more demand for air travel.
Its still the usual things that cause plane crashes.