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Four autumns ago, the TV networks presciently, weirdly, scheduled three terrorism dramas just before 9/11. This fall, just after Hurricane Katrina, the lineup includes three sci-fi series about menaces from the water. Is it conspiracy? Clairvoyance? No, just TV: blame the success of ABC's Lost, in which plane-crash survivors battle eerie phenomena and seaborne attackers on an island...
...days later I was on the plane [to Tampa, Fla.],” Mann says...
...near Athens. Two days later a double engine failure above Venezuela resulted in 160 deaths; nine days later an emergency landing in Peru killed 40, making August the deadliest month for airplane crashes since May 2002. Some of the superstitious breathed a sigh of relief at that point, saying plane crashes come in threes—but they didn’t have much time before crash number four started the cycle again. September 5 brought the Indonesia crash that killed at least 149, leaving even the most hardened and sober among us wondering: where next...
...course, airlines are rushing to reassure us that planes are still safe, and make no mistake, they are. The numbers show that, currently, my chances of dying on the next flight are about eight million to one, much lower than when I’m driving to the grocery store. Then again, the mortality rate of a plane crash, if one should be so unlucky, is pretty darn high—commercial airliners don’t get away with many fender-benders—and the state of the airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together...
...While inspections have not yielded clear results for the Indonesian flight, the aging Boeing was nearly 25 years old—and scheduled to keep flying for eleven more years. I suspect that these accidents were not altogether unavoidable given more careful maintenance or a less thrifty schedule of plane replacement...