From Spanair Plane Crash In Madrid To Safety Of Air Travel
I was shocked when listening to radio this morning that an air plane in Madrid crashed and broke up in flames after failing to take off from Madrid airport which killed 153 people and 19 injured. It was Spanair jet plane MD-82 which is the second largest airline and the largest budget airline in Spain.
According to the Spanish Transport Minister Magdalena Alvarez, the flight JK 5022 was to take 162 passengers including two babies and 20 other children from Madrid to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. It was Spain’s worst plane disaster since a Boeing 747 belonging to Colombian airline crashed in Madrid in 1983 killing 180 and the worst in Europe since a Russian Tupolev crashed in Ukraine in 2006 killing 170.
The tragedy has enlightened me on the safety of air travel which was once considered as the safest public transport in this world. Unfortunately, with the ever rising petrol prices and tougher and tougher competitions among airline, budget airline companies have been striving to survive nowadays. Because of that, I’m just wondering whether they have also compromised the safety standard of their aircraft and if that is the case, they are jeopardizing our lives!
Is it still wise to fly with those budget airlines just for meeting our travel budget? Or should we re-proportionate our travel budget to accommodate those reputable airlines? Should AirAsia’s slogan “Everyone can fly” be changed to “Anyone wants to fly?” Well, let’s give our silent condolences to all the victims while thinking of the answer…. – Travel Feeder
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Cecil Lee
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This was an unbelievably tragic news headline, and my heart goes out to those families who were lost from this. If anything, what I would take away from this is a greater need of investigating safety concerns in aviation; namely, what aircraft need to do to avoid horrible accidents like this from happening again.
- August 22, 2008Such a tragical and so unnecessary thing to happen. *sigh*
Well, I’m not sure that this is related just to budget airlines. unfortunately. We’ll see how it continues…
- August 23, 2008Yep – I would agree with that.. Thanks for the line.
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- September 15, 2008Statistically it is safer to drive, but it is little consolation when your family is involved. The poor families.
- June 19, 2009Hi
- December 8, 2010Some very interesting points made there, a terrible tradgedy.