Very similar to the crash in the Hudson river, except this one hit a house :x Luckily, it was a smaller airliner and it only hit one house. It could quite easily have crashed and skidded through the neighbourhood killing hundreds. The last death toll I saw was 48 on the plane, 1 in the house (presumably the husband, with the wife and child somehow escaping) and another death (it was added to the total but the news anchor didn't say who they were or how they died). BBC link It turns out, after reading the article, that there was an off-duty crew member on board (the 50th person who died). The really sad thing is, one of the passengers was a 9/11 widow who was travelling home to mark what would have been her husbands 58th birthday =[
This really doesn't help with my fear of planes. Meh, and I'm always going back and forth from California to Washington. D: That's really sad, though. ; ; I feel really bad for them. That's a really scary way to die.
Statistically, the odds of a plane crashing (negating pilot error) is like 1 in a million. Pilot error is unlikely because the pilots go through a training process so rigorous, it reminds me of the military. In addition, no pilot is likely to panic when something goes wrong. In one study, it was found that major airline pilots' personalities are extremely similar to the stereotypical old west cowboys - never afraid, never flinching, and never panicking. It's much more dangerous to drive, where anyone with a 50 I.Q. can have a driver's license, and those that have lower than that drive anyways, cause they can't understand that they are not supposed to. Also, with cars, there is no regulation while you are driving - only when an outside source (cop) sees you may be impaired (drugs, alcohol, cell phone). In a plane, the pilots are in constant contact with and monitored constantly by air traffic controllers.
My dad told me some people from the company he worked at died on that plane. Although I don't know them I still feel sad for all of the people who died on that plane.
