Tragical air accidents. by Zuzana Valkova

Everyone thinks that flying is the safest way of traveling. Everyday there are thousands accidents on the ground. Every year is killed over million of people in car accidents. Planes are crashing only time to time. That is not stimulative, but better than nothing. When you are traveling by plane, it is 10 times safer than driving your car; it is almost as safe as sitting in the pub with your friends. Numbers don't lie. Flying is safer. But there were many really big plane accidents in the past, and I wanted to know which one was the worst. The biggest collision took a place on beautiful island Tenerife. In 1977 two Boeings crashed on the runway, when KLM Airways plane was taking off and Pan American plane was taxiing. This accident killed 583 people. Second biggest crash was flight of the Japan Airlines Boeing in 1985. After structural failure and loosing most of the hydraulic control, the plane crashed into the mountain. 520 people died and 4 survived. Third one was mid air collision of two planes, one of the Saudi Arabian Airlines and the second one of the Air Kazakhstan. The crash happened over the small village in India in 1996. This day died 349 people from both planes. 346 people died in the fourth biggest accident in the history. McDonnell Douglas plane exploded shortly after taking off from Paris in 1974. There were many accidents like this in history. I know they look terrible. At one time are killed so many people. But these kinds of accidents are not happening everyday. Car accidents are.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20071206/ap_tr_ge/travel_briefs_runway_safety;_ylt=Aokb.gsUtxoziLy5DgRPSWCs0NUE

by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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