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Monday, September 19, 2011

10 Worst Accidents in Aviation History

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If we get on a plane, the steward or stewardess during a flight must be told that the gadgets we have, whether mobile or Notebook must be turned off because it could adversely affect aircraft navigation systems. Recent study published mailonsunday.co.uk even strengthen it.
Mailonsunday.co.uk recently released the results of recent research which states that although only a passenger who activates the phone or using other electronic devices during flight, was able to interfere with aircraft electronic systems and even deadly. As a result, unmitigated, could be a fatal plane accident.


A leaked study conducted of the International Aviation Association (IATA), a group of 230 passenger and cargo airlines throughout the world, found that in the past six years occurred 75 incidents relating to use of the gadget by passengers.
Earlier, in the same period, the UK Civil Aviation Authority found the 35 warning signs of danger on the plane that caused the use of communication devices. Mentioned, a Blackberry or iPad can cause auto-pilot system is not working and the alarm is on. Another result, instruments that guide pilots in bad weather also can not work.
Television network ABC News also reported that 75 incidents occurred the use of communications gadgets, in which 26 cases affecting the auto-pilot system and landing controls, 17 cases affecting the navigation system, 15 cases interfere with communication systems, and 13 result in the activation of the alarm, even some on the machine .
The use of mobile phones in aircraft is thought to be factors causing the crash an airliner in 2003 in New Zealand, where the eight passengers were killed. But when it was, that activates the phone instead of passengers. But the pilots who could not wait to call his family at home.
In 2007, a Boeing 737 navigation devices in the United States does not work after takeoff, it was found that a passenger activates the electronic device.
List of 10 worst plane crash in history is indeed not caused by the use of gadgets in airplanes, but can be an inspiration as one way of preventing the occurrence of the accident so that every time a plane, we can arrive at your destination safely. 10 worst accident data are taken from telegraph.co.uk.
1. 1977: As many as 583 people were killed when two Boeing 747 aircraft owned by airlines KLM (Netherlands) and Pan Am (United States) collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerif Island, one of the islands in the Canary Islands, Spain. This event is a collision of two aircraft accident the worst in history.
2. 1985: As many as 520 people were killed when the aircraft is owned by Japan Airlines Boeing 747 suffered engine failure and crashed on Mount Osutaka. This is the worst single accident in aviation world.
3. 1996: A total of 349 people killed in air crash in India, involving a Boeing 747 owned by Saudi Arabian Airlines and Ilyushin-76 operated by the airline Air Kazakhstan.
4. 1974: A total of 346 people died in France after the Douglas DC-10 aircraft operated by Turkish Airlines fell. The accident caused the aircraft cargo door opening in flight.
5. 1980: As many as 301 people were killed in Saudi Arabia when the aircraft is the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar-owned airline burst into flames on the runway and the evacuation effort is too late.
6. 1979: A total of 273 people were killed after plane McDonnell-Douglas DC-
10 suffered engine failure and crashed on takeoff just from Chicago, United States. The aircraft operated by American Airlines.
7. 2001: As many as 265 people were killed when the Airbus A300 tail fin detached after takeoff, then fell on the settlements Queens, New York.
8. 1994: A total of 264 people died after a China Airlines Airbus A300 belonging stumbled on landing at the airport in Nagoya, Japan, due to pilot error.
9. 1991: A total of 261 people died in the crash Nationair type DC-8-61, which is chartered by Nigeria Airways for flights pilgrimage to Mecca. The plane crashed after taking off from Saudi Arabia, due to an error on the part of the trigger wheel aircraft fire.
10. 1979: As many as 257 people were killed when the plane McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 operated by Air New Zealand crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica, in a sightseeing flight.