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Read "How to Survive A Disaster."
Even as the search for survivors ended, a team of 70 experts from the National Transportation Safety Board began piecing together the reasons for the disaster. One possible cause: ice on the wings and tail, which acts as a drag on the plane. That afternoon, the 737 had been swabbed...
Airplane crashes have become rare in the U.S. and water landings even rarer. Says Amanda Ripley, a former TIME writer and the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes: "All the instructions they tell you to do - taking the life vests from your seat, grabbing a cushion as...
I learned several things. There's the five-row rule. When a professor in England, Ed Galea, analyzed the seating charts of more than 100 plane crashes and interviewed 1,900 survivors and 155 cabin-crew members, he discovered that survivors usually move an average of five rows before they...
Airline disasters may grab the front-page headlines, but in Asia, ferry accidents are more common - and deadlier. Last year, nearly 1,500 people perished in nine major ferry accidents in the region. The death toll for airline crashes in Asia was 93 in four incidents. Last year's biggest...