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...tend to think of airplane crashes as fatal events. So when survivors emerge from the carcass of a crumpled jumbo jet, as they did outside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday or on the Hudson River in mid-January, the spectacle is often described as miraculous. But survival in an airplane crash is no miracle. It is the result of more-prosaic interventions, from sturdier seats to more carefully placed emergency lights...
Sturdier Seats Congress's Airport and Airway Safety Act of 1987 called for regulators to improve what is called the "crash-worthiness standard" of seats - in effect, the likelihood that they will crumple and crush passengers at impact. It took 17 years to accomplish the task, as the Federal Aviation Administration tussled with aircraft manufacturers and airlines that balked at paying for the upgraded seats. The FAA produced evidence that sturdier seats could have prevented 45 fatalities between 1984 and 1998. A deal was reached. In 2005, the FAA mandated that all U.S. aircraft built after October 2009 meet...
Fire Retardant On Feb. 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493 crashed into another aircraft while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. After surviving the impact, 20 passengers and two crew members died as a result of smoke inhalation as they waited to leave at the overwing exit. During the 1980s, the FAA instituted various measures that demanded aircrafts upgrade the flammability standards of materials on board. The USAir aircraft was built before the effective date of those requirements and had not yet been modernized. All aircraft in the U.S. are now compliant. The requirements were strengthened in 1991, when...
Students who regularly travel to the west coast received more options for travel when Virgin America began service at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 11. Virgin is offering two round-trip flights daily to San Francisco International Airport and three to Los Angeles International Airport starting at $109 one way, according to the company’s Feb. 11 press release. Kacie M. Rounds ‘11, who often uses United Airlines from Logan to both San Francisco and Los Angeles, said she might use Virgin America’s new service in the future...
...house she owned but had never lived in. "My husband said I must not go, but I must," she told me. "'Baba,' I said, 'It is in God's hands.'" She was particularly nervous because her friends in Baghdad had told her they could not meet her at the airport. She would have to take a taxi or bus to a square nearby and meet them. There were only a handful of women on the plane, and Iman pointed to one in a headscarf seated ahead of us. "I asked this lady if she could show...