Letters to the Editor
Increase in airline accidents
These days the rate of air accident has increased although airliners are using sophisticated modern airplanes with computerised control and navigation system. Recently an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed before landing at San Francisco airport killing 2 Chinese schoolgirls and hurting 180 passengers before ending its journey from Shanghai via Seoul.
The Boeing 777 is a wide-body long-range jet plane with a huge fuselage equipped with modern controlling system. But what exactly happened to the aircraft before landing is yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile as revealed by the competent US authority, the plane was travelling significantly below its intended speed before landing. Again the pilot in charge of landing was actually on training who had only 43 hours of flying experience with the Boeing 777 jet! Now the question naturally arises, what factor caused the accident -- mechanical error of the airplane or human error of the pilot? I think both airplane manufacturers and airliners plus other international aviation experts should suggest ways to avoid air accidents to make air journey safe and sound.
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