Many people travel by airplane all around the world. For some people it is the only way they can get to where they are going. On a daily basis, around 30,000 seats are filled on airplanes. At each airport, there are hundreds of arrivals and departures worldwide. Even though airline officials say flying is safe, accidents kill many people because airlines neglect to prevent human error or repair faulty equipment. Sometimes I think the only reason an airplane could crash is if something on the plane were to break, however, most of the time that is not the case. A survey conducted by Boeing found that flight crews were responsible for at least 73 percent of all fatal airplane accidents. Forty-one percent of these accidents occurred during landing because of unstable approaches. The majority of all airline
There have been many incidences in the past of certain models of airplanes that seem to keep having mechanical malfunctions. Despite events that have caused suspension of faulty equipment in, the average age of an airplane fleet is thirteen to fifteen years with close to 20,000 flights. Because of the need to replace these "worn out" planes, many airline companies are buying new planes as fast as they are being manufactured. This means that the large manufacturers that build airplanes are trying to produce more planes faster so that airlines can buy planes from them. In a race to meet the demands of the airline companies, manufacturers are not checking or testing their planes for faulty equipment before sales take place.
Example Essays Home
