Air Crash Investigators
There has been a series on Sky Travel (yes indeed sometimes I do watch something more than Sky News and CBeebies on Sky).
The series is all about the Air Crash Investigators and has been thoroughly entertaining. That notion in itself raises questions about whether we should be "entertained", should it be the right word, at such a loss of life. That being true, we would never go to see some films then, like Titanic etc - which is an amazing film.
Anyway, my point being that all along the way they are talking about how immediatley after a crash investigators are sent to start working out what went wrong, why it went wrong and what needs to be fixed. In most of the disasters they have documented they have explained what has happened to the airline industry etc to ensure it is prevented / reduced in the future. This got me thinking on two levels.
First is that its amazing that it takes some traumitised event for something to happen. For example, the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster that left over 190 people dead when the bow doors were left open. The result of which led to numerous saftey and process changes. Why is it that something so obvious didn't cause people to question it. Was it ignored or simply unseen in the past.
The other level it got me thinking on is why the same is not applied to cars etc. Although I appreciate of late there has been ever increasing push to get cars crash test approved, I am convinced that more could be done for the safety and security of the passengers. I understand that a plane is going to lead to a great loss of life if failure occurs - but surely car causes more deaths than a plane in general. If you hear of 300 people that were killed in a plane crash on one day, you forget about the 200 or so that may have died in road traffic accidents for that one year alone.
I also wonder how much pressure insurance companies put on car manufacturers in order to "frig" the insurance market - I don't know but just a thought.
Probably a bit of a random thought for the day but there ya go.
The series is all about the Air Crash Investigators and has been thoroughly entertaining. That notion in itself raises questions about whether we should be "entertained", should it be the right word, at such a loss of life. That being true, we would never go to see some films then, like Titanic etc - which is an amazing film.
Anyway, my point being that all along the way they are talking about how immediatley after a crash investigators are sent to start working out what went wrong, why it went wrong and what needs to be fixed. In most of the disasters they have documented they have explained what has happened to the airline industry etc to ensure it is prevented / reduced in the future. This got me thinking on two levels.
First is that its amazing that it takes some traumitised event for something to happen. For example, the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster that left over 190 people dead when the bow doors were left open. The result of which led to numerous saftey and process changes. Why is it that something so obvious didn't cause people to question it. Was it ignored or simply unseen in the past.
The other level it got me thinking on is why the same is not applied to cars etc. Although I appreciate of late there has been ever increasing push to get cars crash test approved, I am convinced that more could be done for the safety and security of the passengers. I understand that a plane is going to lead to a great loss of life if failure occurs - but surely car causes more deaths than a plane in general. If you hear of 300 people that were killed in a plane crash on one day, you forget about the 200 or so that may have died in road traffic accidents for that one year alone.
I also wonder how much pressure insurance companies put on car manufacturers in order to "frig" the insurance market - I don't know but just a thought.
Probably a bit of a random thought for the day but there ya go.
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