I know the airplane has many safety features, but when the 747 and the 737 and all the other newer planes came out they had very good safety features too, but some planes still crashed. Even when a small airliner crashes it is still a horrible accident, but there are usually like 350 people tops on a plane. But now with the A380, which can hold 800 people i mean if even n full packed A380 goes down it is huge massacre. So now for my question: Don't you think that Airbus went too far with size and don't you think the A380 is too big?? Please only serious answers.
2007-10-29 10:03:14 · 18 answers · asked by Marcin B. 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
I doubt it. Many aircraft that have been developed in the last 20 years have crashed less than you can count on two hands. (some not at all).
Boeing 757, 6 fatal airline accidents (two as a result of hijackings).
Boeing 767, 5 fatal airline accidents (three as a result of hijackings).
Boeing 777, no fatal accidents.
Airbus A320, 6 fatal airline crashes.
Airbus A330, 0 airline crashes.
Airbus A340, 0 fatal airline accidents.
Compare that to the car that kills 40,000 people every year in the US alone.
2007-10-29 11:08:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Airbus A380 Accident
2016-12-16 04:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by libbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt anyone is gonna put 800 people in an A380, i'll say maybe 600 tops and right now they are 747's in Japan that have been flying for many years with 500+ on it and so far its ben quite safe. No Airbus hasn't gone to far, blame the airlines, they asked for the plane and Airbus built it to the safest of their knowledge and the FAA certified it. So people should really stop with all the doom and gloom nonsense concerning the A380, would it be any different if lets say two domestic 747's in Japan carrying 500+ people each crash or collide like the tenerife disaster?
2007-10-30 09:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by 2OleGEND 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every airplane is an accident waiting to happen. All planes are likely to crash including the A380. I believe when the 747 came out, people had the same attitude. Please give Airbus some break here. I know most of us in America prefer Boeing but we cannot look down on A380. True that if the giant crashes, a lot of lives are going to be lost but what we haven't thought about is that if it does, citizens of at least 6 different countries will be involved, including america.
In the future, I know all these criticisms will die out. The airbus A380 will not only serve people in Europe but the whole world.
So can we please be appreciative of the step in aviation and hope nothing bad happens?
Long live the 747,A380 and aviation!!!
2007-10-29 10:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by pkdann 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Incidents like that are part of aviation, always have been always will be... but that is a risk that is worth taking in my opinion... I dont see an A380 going down in the near future... In fact, the Boeing 777 which entered service in 1995 has never crashed... Same for the A340... the newer airplanes are incredibly capable and they are very safe... Lets all hope that we dont see an A380 crash...
I have never been a supporter of the A380 but I am a strong supporter of aviation safety... And that should always come first...
2007-10-29 10:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by ALOPILOT 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
So what? California is a vast accident waiting to happen and when it does it will cost more than a trillion dollars and make at least 100,000 homeless. That's a conservative estimate for the Hayward fault, perhaps the most dangerous and five miles from where I sit. God knows how many it will kill. And it is a certainty. God knows how many the New Madrid Fault will kill since the east has no significant preparations.
Stop wasting your time scare mongering for Boeing, the 737 is the only aircraft that ever frightened me, too many spun in on approach for no reason Boeing care to admit (tail actuator runaway). 115 B737s have been lost with 3272 folks killed, 6 other incidents killed another 242. 3514 total. Even from the over 7,000 ordered and over 5,000 delivered that's still not a good record, around 2% lost. It'll be a heck of a time before we lose seven A380s.
The most famously dangerous Airbus family would be the A320 and its like, 17 of 3186 lost as of April 2007 with the loss of 618 lives. That's 0.5% of delivered aircraft, four times safer than 737s. A300s not quite as good, 8 of 858 lost, though the US Navy shot one of those down.
About 15 of 1400 Boeing 747s have been lost. Around 1%.
Did we really want to look at the figures?
Worry about something useful like being a better driver, which is much more likely to keep you and us alive.
2007-10-29 19:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's the same with anything. Look at the Titanic, but there are much larger ships in service today. Yes, when the first crash happens, it will be a terrible disaster, but it won't be the end. With advances in technology there always comes a price. Personally, I wouldn't fly on an A380 until it's been in service for years and has proven itself safe.
2007-10-29 10:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by Shayna 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you calculate mortality as person/miles per day, it wouldn't surprise me if larger aircraft are actually safer.
Yeah, when it does happen, its worse, but think of all of the people who get to their end destination safely normally.
Compare two aircraft, one that can move 400 people and another that can move 800. If they crash at the same frequency, the 800 person plane will have moved twice the number of people (assuming the plane is filled, which is a HUGE assumption).
Calculating the mortality is much much more complex than just the number of people who die in one incident.
2007-10-29 10:07:49 · answer #8 · answered by Elana 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well if there is someTenerife type of accident with two A380s, it'll be above the fold on every paper out there.
2007-10-29 11:29:50 · answer #9 · answered by grumpy geezer 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely. The biggest air disaster in history.
2015-03-24 01:13:04 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋