Flight - Airplane Safety

Airplane Safety

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Plane safety has improved over the years in many ways. the safety of planes has changed over time because of various incidents that occur, such as crashes, communication failure and technonligcal failures. Things such as releasable inflatable slides are just small improvements people have made in planes, one of the large changes made in planes is the technonlogy used on planes for entertainment purposes.

Flight	Incident	Upgrade
1956 - TWA Flight 2 and United Flight 718	TWA and United aircraft had a mid-air collision near Grand Canyon	Improvements of air traffic control system; creation of FAA
1978 - United Flight 173	Landing gear problem as the aircraft crashed into a suburb after circling near the Portland airport for 1 hour	Cockpit teamwork
1983 - Air Canada Flight 797	Rear lavatory had smoke and the plane landed at Cincinnati but shortly after landing, the cabin erupted in a flash fire.	Lavatory smoke sensors
1985 - Delta Flight 191	Jetliner crashed after losing 54 knots of airspeed in a few seconds when lightning flashed around the airplane	Downdraft detection
1986 - Aeromexico Flight 498	Aeromexico crashed with a small private plane due to lack of transponder on private plain (Private plane was not visible on Aeromexico's radar)	Collision Avoidance
1988 - Aloha Flight 243	Large section of the fuselage blew off due to a combination of corrosion and widespread fatigue damage	Retiring tin
1994 - US Air Flight 427	When the plane landed at Pittsburgh, the plane suddenly veered left and crashed because of a jammed valve in the rudder-control system	Rudder Rx
1996: ValuGet Flight 592	There was a fire in the airplane caused by chemical oxygen generators that had been illegally packaged by SabreTech	Fire prevention in the hold
1996: TWA Flight 800	The plane blew up in mid-air, this was caused sparks in the fuel gauge sensor	electrical spark elimination
1998: Swissair Flight 111	There was a fire in the new entertainment system on board the plane causing safety features to fail, which caused all 229 passengers to die	Insulation swap-out

All these incidents caused aircraft designers to design new ways to builld planes to make them safer and the passengers.