Sentences with phrase «recent air crashes»
Global reinsurance rates have already hardened following the recent air crashes.
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Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.
The last death resulting from an emergency on a commercial flight was slightly more recent — in December 2013, one of the nine people on a Makani Kai Air commuter flight died following a crash.
A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.
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.
The number of crashes has fallen in recent years as automakers added safety devices such as air bags, anti-lock brakes and stability control, which helps drivers keep cars under control in emergency situations.
Patrick Smith, Author of Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel, shares his insight into the recent and tragic Colombia airline crash.
While no doubt borne out of a well - intentioned desire to protect consumers (remembering the recent impacts of mortgage - backed securities on financial markets), the Senators» approach is akin to responding to a tragic airplane crash by concluding that the best way to protect consumers from air disasters in the future is simply to ban flying.
In more recent times, a number of traumatic events have occurred on Friday the 13th, including the German bombing of Buckingham Palace (September 1940); the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York (March 1964); a cyclone that killed more than 300,000 people in Bangladesh (November 1970); the disappearance of a Chilean Air Force plane in the Andes (October 1972); the death of rapper Tupac Shakur (September 1996) and the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, which killed 30 people (January 2012).