Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Is Qantas The World?s Safest Airline?

No, and it was never true. Qantas airplanes have crashed multiple times, with the most recent fatal accident occurring in 1951. Still, it's never had a crash since the commercial adoption of the jet engine, and a recent report by the Switzerland-based Air Transport Rating Agency named Qantas the 13th safest airline. The 10 safest airlines in 2011 were Air France-KLM, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways. (The list is in alphabetical order, because the organization did not sort the top 10 by safety.) While several of those airlines have had fatal accidents more recently than Qantas, crashes were only one of 15 factors used in the rankings. The group also considered pilot-training facilities, maintenance capacity, age of fleet, number of employees, and financial health, among others. Nervous flyers have plenty of options today if they want to fly on an airline that has never crashed. Domestically, Jet Blue would be the best-known choice. (Southwest also qualifies, sort of. In a 2007 incident, one of their planes killed someone on the ground, though no passengers died. )

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=33b4f433730a3c8382d5e7862793fe7b

knocked up knocked up edgar cayce hes just not that into you hes just not that into you eagle rock music festival eagle rock music festival

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.