Everyone has seen movies
about airplane crashes where investigators are searching for the «black box.»
Interesting stats
about airplane crash and car crash.
Not exact matches
Maybe because we are all going to die, we all know it and we all feel like we are on an
airplane slowly
crashing and there's nothing we can do
about it.
On the average,
about half the responses given to such questions as why racial differences exist, why someone might be killed in an
airplane crash or die young, and why suffering in general exists were consistent with one another; the remaining half drew from different thematic traditions.10
But there are also the moments of tragedy — someone we love dies of cancer, there is an appalling
airplane crash, we hear
about a devastating earthquake or a tidal wave, famine strikes some part of the world — when any man or woman who is at all sensitive will admit that this is not «a nice world» but rather is filled with tragedy, sadness, and pain.
The fact is many people are still angry
about what happened and do not want a reminder of those who
crashed airplanes into buildings killing people simply because you have the right to do so.
In the wake of recent airline
crashes, major news networks have aired concerns
about pilots» ability to accurately fly «by hand» when the
airplane's cockpit automation systems fail.
Nuclear power has been staggeringly safe, but that doesn't stop people being anxious
about it, just as
airplanes and trains are an amazingly safe way to travel but people still worry far more
about plane
crashes than car
crashes.
Now, after years of collecting such data, Augenstein is working with the auto industry to create a new generation of cars equipped with «black boxes,» much like those in
airplanes, that will automatically convey information
about the location and severity of a
crash to an emergency dispatcher.
The
airplane crash drama is incidental: this is a movie
about self - destructive behavior, failed attempts at recovery, and eventual redemption.
For example, after reading the section of the story
about the plane
crash, some students created a slide to tell
about it; they incorporated
airplane clip art into their slides.
The good thing
about these crates is — barring an
airplane crash — they last just
about forever.
«I've always loved the analogy that you're flying on a plane and you see a rivet pop out and are you so worried, well maybe not, but eventually enough of those rivets pop out that's going to be holding together something pretty critical on that
airplane and that's going to cause that
airplane to
crash and that's of course what everybody worries
about.
You're worrying
about a little drone
crashing but not the
airplane you're flying on?»
Airplane crashes are rarely heard
about in the news, but when they do occur they often cause catastrophic injuries to passengers, and in many cases death.
When an
airplane crashes, the usual result is death or serious injury, and with each occurrence, grief visits the families and extended families of the victims, bringing
about terrible loss and sorrow.
Chances are, you know people who are frightened of flying in
airplanes but don't think twice
about getting into an automobile, despite statistics that place the odds of dying in a plane
crash at 1 in 11 million while the odds of dying in a car
crash are (according to some sources) as high as 1 in 5,000.