Air Crash And Lessons Wikia



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Special Crashes
Tenerife Disaster

Mid Air Collisions

Ditching to Water

Prop/Turboprop Aircraft Accidents/Incidents

Japan Airline Flight 123

Delta Flight 191

United Airlines 232

American Airlines 191

Turkish Airlines 981

American Air 96

Eastern Airlines 401

Swiss Air 111

Air Crashes in Pre- 1970's and Lessons
As the Jets were starting to be produced from late 1950's, pilot error and the system errors also caused many accidents in early jets. Many of them were contributed by CFIT, or Controlled Flight Into Terrain that were mostly caused by pilot error(especially in PanAm, which had least one fatal crash per month at mid-1960's shortly after introducing jets until the solution was found, which is to increase communications between pilots), or sometimes navigation error. The fact that there were none or insufficient terrain warnings caused many accidents. There were also many hijackings and some other undefined air crashes due to lack of technologies. Those accidents led to the foundation of NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Boards in United States to investigate the safety of transportations, mainly focused on aviation safety.

B-707(1960)

B-720(1960)

B-727(1960)

DC-8(1960)

DC-9(1960)

BAC-1-11(1960)

De Havilland Comet(1950&1960&1970)

Convair-880(1960)

Air Crashes in 1970's and Lessons
From 1970, the jet travel started to become cheaper and attract more and more customers. Which also lead to low cost airlines as Southwest Airlines. And the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978 lead to rapid expensions of airlines inside United States, which made more and more air traffics worldwide with increased number of airliner accidents and incidents. And as the widebody aircrafts, such as B747, L-1011 TriStar, DC-10 were introduced, the number of fatalities also grew. Especially 1972's Eastern Airlines L-1011 Flight 401 being first fatal crash of widebody and American Air DC-10 Flight 191 being the worst air disaster of United States. And also the uear for the 1974's Turkish 981 being 4th most deadliest crash of aviation history. Despite these fatal accidents, 1970's and 1980's are the time so-called Golden Age of Airlines, when despite the Oil shocks and some economical downturns, airlines were moving forward and attracting more and more passengers.

De Havilland Comet(1950&1960&1970)

B-707(1970)

B-720(1970)

B-727(1970)

B-737(1970)

B-747(1970)

DC-8(1970)

DC-9(1970)

DC-10(1970)

L-1011(1970)

BAC-1-11(1970)

Convair-880(1970)

Fokker-28(1970)

Air Crashes in 1980's and Lessons
In 1980's, the number of travelers kept surging toward sky, and airfairs were reduced even further, attracting more passengers. And there were also many major crashes throughout the world as 1985 being the most fatal year of air crashes, caused by Air India 182, JAL 123, Delta 191, British Airtours 28M. And many air crashes at 1989 also brought new significant lessons, such as British Midlands 92, and United 232. As from early 1980's, glass cockpit aircrafts such as B767(1983) B757(1984) were introduced. Fly by wire, system which that aircraft is controlled by computers, were also introduced at late 1980's with A320(1988). These new aircrafts began to replace old aircrafts and will soon bring new world of aviation as from the 1990's.

Air Crashes in 1990's and Lessons
First part of 1990 started from the oil shocks and financial downturns. It caused many major careers as Pan Am and Eastern Airlines to go bankrupt into their dooms in 1991. But after war ended and economics went back to track, the new modern jet age had began. From mid 1990's, many advanced aircrafts as B777, A330, A340, MD11 rolled out of assembly line and started the passenger services. Most of major airlines replaced their old aircrafts from 70-80's to new jets. Those new jets had more advanced system, as they were all fly-by-wire(B777 was first fly by wire aircraft from Boeing) and had better computerized systems. Accidents were significantly reduced. However, there were still accidents that brought new system changes to these new aircrafts and accidents caused by the old aircrafts in South America and Africa. And 1996 is the year for the world's deadlist mid air collision, Charki Dadri Mid Air Collision over India. Which is the 3rd worst disaster of aviation history.

Air Crashes in Post- 2000's and Lessons
From 2000's, many important lessons were learned from previous crashes before, but after the significant economic downturns from late 1990's and 2001, (and 2008 at later as well.) travelers shrinked, and causing less frequent maintanance of aircrafts, which caused crashes as Alaskan Airlines 261. And the perhaps the one of most famous mid air collision, Uberlingen Mid Air Collision took place at 2002. However, airline industries stood up as economic situations went better from 2012. And next generation jets, such as A380, A350, B787 and the B737 Max began to enter the new market and start the new second jet age. Also, many major mergers as Delta and Northwest (2010), United and Continental (2012) and American and US Airways (2013) happened in this time period. And passenger services of TriJets, DC-10, and MD-11 ended each by Bangladesh Airways(Last DC-10, 2014) and KLM(Last MD-11, 2014).