Jun/090
Tragedy of Air France Flight 477 a Reminder to the Consumer
On the 1st June 2009 Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Ocean with 228 men, woman and children tragically losing their lives. Over the last century sky travel, in particular aircraft travel has become near perfected safety-wise which is why this tragedy seems all the more shocking and preventable.
Even a seasoned sky traveller would be forgiven a twinge of nervousness and concern after reading about this. However, despite such incidents, sky travel is fantastically safe. The rate of fatality is about one fatality per 50 million passenger miles, making it 20 times safer than driving and to put it in perspective you’re more likely to die in your bathtub or by falling off a ladder than in an air crash.
Any time when a piece of technology is designed by humans there will obviously be flaws which, despite endless trying, can never really be ironed out completely and there will always be the risk of failure. This is exaggerated by the sheer scale of an aircraft and the dangers and unnaturalness of travelling through the sky thousands of feet from ’safety’.
The terrible accident of Flight 477 serves as a reminder to us all that technology is impressive, but it’s not invulnerable. As consumers we put our life in the hands of manufacturers and tour operators and it is a common opinion that a little more respect for mother nature wouldn’t go amiss.
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