Feb
13
2009
Wow, this has really been a month for plane crashes or something. (I guess the Hudson River one doesn’t count, seeing as it was in January…although it’s been less than a month since that happened. Whatever.) Just a day or two ago there was the one near Buffalo, NY, and today a plane crashed on landing at London’s City airport. The really amazing thing there is that only two people were injured and no one died; in fact, everyone had already got out of the plane by the time emergency services got there. Of course they were already on the runway, so it wasn’t anything like as bad a crash as it could be, but…a crash landing is a crash landing, and one you walk away from is pretty darn good.
This doesn’t exactly make me feel better about flying, though. At times I sympathize with my grandpa and uncle, who absolutely refuse to fly.
(Image from Reuters.)
