Can turbulance cause an airplane to crash?
the turbulence that i experience when im driving behind or beside an 18 wheeler feels like my car is gonna get takened underneath it can that cause accidents too?
What are the main causes of small planes crashes?
Too low, too slow! The guy who built my plane in 1992, a very good friend and his wife, in Belgium, two members of our club, last year in Hamar ... they all got killed for the same reason: manoeuvres at low altitude and low speed, near an airfield.Here is a typical example:You turn final, in line with the runway for landing but there is a crosswind. Say, you turn, banking at an angle of 45 degrees. You notice that you are not aligned with the runway and you press your pedal in the direction you want the nose to go. But wait, as you bank 45 degrees, you move the nose as much on the side as ... down! To compensate that, you pull on the stick, to lift the nose and ... you kill much of the speed you have now, with the throttle at idle. Your wing inside the turn stalls and you end up in a deadly spin to the ground, perhaps only 300 feet under you!What went wrong? In an aircraft, you fly relative to the air, not relative to the ground. But you are used to sense your position relative to what you see, the ground. When flying, trust the instruments, not what you see!If a friend of mine wants to take photos of his house or surrounding, I say: “Okay, you take the photos and I fly! You tell me where and when to turn and I watch only my instrument!“ For as long as I am over stall speed and the ball is in the middle, there is no danger.... then the second cause of small plane crashes is ... the weather: Flying visual (VFR) then ending in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) because "I think I can do it through this cloud!" That has also killed many pilots.
What are the causes of plane crashes?
The usual cause of plane crash are 3MostlyMechanical FailurePilot ErrorWeather conditionsThe unusual cause areATC mistakeMid Air crashExplosive materialsMechanical Failure: Sometimes planes have faulty gauges or the hydraulics of the plane wont work..Sometimes the ailerons dosent work , or the fuel system fails to supply enough fuel to the engines causing engine malfunction…Eg :Gilmi glider Plane lost both enginesPilot error :. A plane wont crash due to single error of pilot , its chain of events taking placeThe pilots miscalculation , or wrong decision which he did during tskeoff might end up disaster in mid flight.Eg : Silk air suicide & one plane where the pilot goes into medical condition called VertigoWeather conditions : This is need not explain…Sometimes things like windsheer(sudden downward pressure) can lead to rapid descent of flight causing them to crashEG: AIR FRANCE
Why don't people use parachutes to escape crashing planes?
I guess you mean commercial aircraft, as many military aircraft do have ejection/parachute capability.. 1. There is not enough cabin space for ~400 passengers to put on their chutes at the same time when there is an emergency. They would simply not have time either. In the confusion they would not be able to respond to instructions from the cabin crew. 2. There are not enough doors for passengers to exit. Front and over-wing doors are no good to bail from as the passengers would strike the aircraft. The exits must be at the rear. So two doors for ~400 people. 3. When the plane's attitude is nose-down, or flying erratically due to the fault, it is difficult for passengers to make their way up the aisle to a rear exit, and/or without sustaining injuries that would block the aisle 4. 400-odd parachutes add a tonne of weight to the aircraft and take up space. 5. The cabin is pressurised and opening the doors at altitude would cause serious/explosive decompression making high altitude escape problematic. If the aircraft doesn't break up first. 6. Depressurising the cabin before popping the doors at altitude would require every passenger to be on oxygen. Otherwise they'd pass out and block the aisles. Oxygen is only available above seats. Portable oxygen cylinders would have to be issued, capable of lasting until the parachuting passenger has descended to around 15,000 feet where they can survive without oxygen. Airliners cruise at 30,000 feet plus. 7. Parachuting passengers would drift for hundreds of miles across the sky. Even if they survived the landing - we're talking old people, kids etc. getting timely help to them all would be all but impossible.
Why does Indonesia have so many plane crashes?
In my opinion, three main reasons.1. Poor safety standards. Indonesia has always recorded very very poor scores in air safety surveys and audits. For example, the FAA classes Indonesia's aviation safety as class 2, which means it doesn't adhere to minimum air safety standards. How many other countries are in class 2? Take out one of your hands and count your fingers. That's it. The ICAO Safety Audit rates countries by eight categories, Indonesia scored below average in every category. You can see the results here: Safety Audit Information.2. Poor regulation.Indonesia is a very, very large country. Lots of people use air travel to travel from one island to another. Regulation? Not much. The Indonesian regulatory body is seriously understaffed, and as we can see, corruption in Indonesia is quite serious. Remember the 2015 Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash? Where civilians paid to fly in a military aircraft, which is forbidden. Or Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501? In which Indonesian authorities claimed they weren't authorised to fly. When I read all these stories, I just can't believe how can these possibly happen. Oh and when Indonesia AirAsia Extra sold tickets BEFORE being allowed to fly. This angered many Australian tourists, and I doubt the airline was even given a slap on the wrist by Indonesian authorities.3. The vast number of airlines.At least 60. That's the number of airlines operating in Indonesia. All but FOUR of Indonesian airlines are banned from entering EU airspace. Nearly all of them are small, budget carriers with old aircraft, although some have fairly new fleets. These airlines turn their planes around in super quick fashion. For example, a flight has just flown from Jakarta to Surabaya on an one and a half hour flight. The next thing you know, the aircraft is back in the sky in a matter of minutes, leaving little time to properly do checks and everything on the aircraft. To cut cost, maintenance costs are cut to bare minimum, and pilot training is well, not too up to standards, both evident in the Indonesia AirAsia crash last year. One notorious example is Adam Air, which was Indonesia's fastest growing low cost airline prior to being shut down by the authorities in 2008. And when you have so many airlines, how are you supposed to regulate them efficiently?
Why Do AirPlaneS Crash?
Crashes of aircraft happen due to many reasons like weather problem that the aircraft might hit by a lightning badly, or human error / pilot error, mechanical error. Maintenance error meant that lack of compliance to the maintenance requirements. Poor communication between tower and the pilots they have different languages and cannot pronounce the words properly. incorrect decision of pilots during landing. Defective altimeter. Etc.,