Monday, July 14, 2008

Plane Accidents and Realities

Airplane, described by many as the fastest, convenient and relatively the safest means of transportation, ever had. To that, I can agree, qualifiedly.

Why qualified or with reservation?

Though, plane has now become part of mass transport, there are reported incidents (in fact many) across all jurisdictions of accident involvement with this particular kind of conveyance. One thing can describe from all these plane accidents, that is, “one incident can cause a large number of fatalities”. That is to show how grave its impact whenever plane is involved in air mishaps.

Like in the recent event that happened in Ventura County, specifically in a Camarillo industrial park, reported by CBS2 (Thursday, 10 Jul 2008) with the heading, “Small plane flips in Ventura County”. The report related that a banner-towing plane has landed upside down in a Camarillo field during an emergency landing.

Luckily, the pilot did not suffer any serious injuries. Still lucky enough, that the plane has not conveyed passengers while taking its course.

Worthy to note then, the event was just the third mishap involving a small airplane in Ventura County in the past eight days.

Terrified! News like this one really irked me!

I express concern with this, as I am an air traveler myself. Traveling through plane medium really is quite a risk, as potentially we can be dead at an instant with no choice to live whenever grave trouble in voyage happened.

With these facts and realities about planes, we air travelers cannot do anything but hope that no complications arise when we take our flight.

For the airline companies, this I say, that they should properly maintain their air conveyances to the maximum level to avoid air troubles while in transit. Or else, when plane accident happens, they can be held liable for the deaths or any injuries to passengers as well as to the damages and loss of its cargoes.