Monday, February 16, 2009

Plane accidents

We used to hear very few airplane accidents. Maybe once in a few years. Usually no one survives an airplane accidents, except last time on the miracle water landing. But yikes, recently another plane collided onto a house, killing 50. Last time the heroic pilot landed on water and people were miraculously saved. Not this time. Ice (not birds) is the source of disaster...

So the plane was on auto-pilot. Please don't blame the pilot too hard. Perhaps we didn't have time to realize the ice build up was fatal. If you succeed, you become world hero, if you don't, you're gone. It is a thinline between hero and tragic disaster.

To restore trust in flying. Please be careful, pilots.
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My home insurance does cover the case of aircraft crash and other very unlikely situations. But they don't cover common threats such as flood in basement. This is how insurance work: they sell you papers and periodic bills, for most of their customers.

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