Plane Crashes 24/7

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Since 2013, fifteen horrible plane crashes have occurred. The most recent plane crash occurred on March 8, 2014. Flight 370 left from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and was heading to Beijing Capital International Airport. The plane had 239 passengers on board and the crash killed all of them. However, there are ways that plane crashes like these can be prevented. In this paper, I will argue that plane crashed such as these can be prevented with advanced technology. Then, I will explain a system that can help errors during a plane crash be able to be resolved quickly.

The most common reasons why planes crash are because of pilot error. Over fifty percent of plane crashes are caused by pilots making mistakes. No one mistake or fault can cause commercial airlines, private airplanes, military aircrafts, and private and non private helicopters to crash. When an error occurs during a flight, pilots end up making another seven more errors on top of the other one before the plane crashes. All of the passenger planes have two pilots and they are supposed to go over each others responsibilities that keep the plane flying. Often times, one pilot makes a mistake and the other pilot doesn’t catch it. For example, a flight to Tokyo crashed in 1987 because a pilot who was known to have serious psychological problems put the plane’s engines into reverse in the middle of the flight. Before a person is allowed to start and finish schooling for becoming a legal pilot, they should be tested for drugs and any mental problems that could cause a crash to happen.

By the time one figures out that an error occurred, it’s too late to keep the plane from crashing. The reason why some pilots as a pair are better at working together than...

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...fix. For example, the mechanics that work on cars fix so many different cars that they learn more about each one. But when a car comes in that is new, they might know very little and not be able to fix it. If the plane companies were to have people study intensively in the small private planes then another with the larger passenger planes, then they would be a lot more knowledgeable when they would have to fix that certain plane.

In conclusion, I know that from this day on, mechanical error can be prevented by keeping planes maintained a lot better on land so they won’t crash in the air. After those problems are changed, the percent of plane crashes should go down by at least half percent.

Works Cited

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm http://rblaw.net/blog/5-most-common-causes-of-plane-crashes/ http://whatsbestnext.com/2009/06/why-plane-crashes-happen/

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