But the reality is that the number of people dying from traffic accidents is far more than this, every year, and even in only most of countries in the world.
Ship is much better, but can be as deadly if luck is not on one's side.
So, we can still safely say that air travel is still the safest way to move around.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning, leaving the fates of the 239 people aboard in doubt. A look at some of the world's deadliest air disasters and crashes:
- June 3, 2012: Dana Air MD-83 jet crashes into residential area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, killing all 153 people aboard.
- April 20, 2012: Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes in wheat fields near Islamabad, Pakistan while trying to land during thunder storm, killing 127 people.
- Jan 9, 2011: Iran Air Boeing 727 breaks to pieces on impact in northwestern Iran. 77 dead.
- May 12, 2010: Afriqiyah Airways plane en route to Tripoli, Libya, from Johannesburg, South Africa, crashes into the desert less than a mile from the runway, killing 103 people.
- April 10, 2010: The plane of Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes outside the western Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 aboard.
- June 30, 2009: Yemenia Airbus 310 en route to the Comoros Islands crashes into the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board.
- June 1, 2009: Air France Airbus A330 runs into thunderstorms and crashes into Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing 228 people on board.
- Feb. 19, 2003: Iranian Revolutionary Guard military plane crashes into a mountain. 275 dead.
- May 25, 2002: China Airlines Boeing 747 breaks apart midair and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. 225 dead.
- Nov. 12, 2001: American Airlines Airbus A300 crashes after takeoff from JFK Airport into the New York City borough of Queens. 265 dead, including people on the ground.
- Oct. 31, 1999: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes off Nantucket; the NTSB blames actions by the co-pilot. 217 dead.
- Sept. 2, 1998: Swissair MD-11 crashes off Nova Scotia. 229 dead.
- Feb. 16, 1998: China Airlines Airbus A300 crashes on landing at airport in Taipei, Taiwan. 203 dead.
- Sept. 26, 1997: Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near airport in Medan, Indonesia. 234 dead.
- Aug. 6, 1997: Korean Air Boeing 747-300 crashes on landing in Guam. 228 dead.
- Nov. 12, 1996: Saudi Boeing 747 collides with Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi. 349 dead.
- July 17, 1996: TWA Boeing 747 explodes and crashes into the Atlantic off Long Island, New York. 230 dead.
- April 26, 1994: China Airlines Airbus A300 crashes on landing at Nagoya Airport in Japan. 264 dead.
- Dec. 12, 1985: Arrow Air DC-8 crashes after takeoff from Newfoundland, Canada. 256 dead.
- Aug. 12, 1985: Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashes into a mountainside after losing part of its tail fin. 520 dead in the world's worst single-plane disaster.
- Aug. 19, 1980: Saudi Tristar makes emergency landing in Riyadh and bursts into flames. 301 dead.
- Nov. 28, 1979: Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Antarctica's Mt. Erebus during sightseeing flight over the icy wilderness. 257 dead.
- May 25, 1979: American Airlines DC-10 crashes after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare Airport. 275 dead.
- Jan. 1, 1978: Air India 747 crashes into the ocean after takeoff from Mumbai. 213 dead.
- March 27, 1977: KLM 747, Pan American 747 collide on runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands. 583 dead in world's worst airline disaster.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-missing-jet-a-look-at-world-s-deadliest-air-disasters-1.2565112
A summary of the missing jet of Malaysia Airlines by CNN as of Mar 12, 2014.
Wish things turn out to be better than the worst speculations.
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What we know and don't know
(CNN) -- As the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet entered a fifth day Wednesday, investigators remained uncertain about its whereabouts.Here's a summary of what we know and what we don't know about Flight 370, which was carrying 239 people when it disappeared from radar screens over Southeast Asia.
THE FLIGHT PATH
What we know: The Boeing 777-200ER took off from Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, at 12:41 a.m. Saturday (12:41 p.m. Friday ET). It was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. the same day, after a roughly 2,700-mile (4,350-kilometer) journey. But around 1:30 a.m., air traffic controllers in Subang, outside Kuala Lumpur, lost contact with the plane over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
Quest: They have 'no idea where plane is' Do stolen passports indicate terrorism? A deeper look at Boeing 777s
What we don't know: What happened next. The pilots did not indicate any problem to the tower, and no distress signal was issued. Malaysian military officials cite radar data as suggesting the plane might have turned back toward Kuala Lumpur. But the pilots didn't tell air traffic control that they were doing so.
A senior Malaysian air force official said Tuesday that the plane traveled hundreds of miles off course, moving in the opposite direction from its original destination, and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared.
We don't know why the plane would have turned around. While one expert tells CNN the plane's deviation could mean someone deliberately turned the plane around, another expert says power failure could have disrupted the main transponder and its backup, and the plane could have flown for more than an hour.
THE PASSENGERS
What we know: There were 239 people on board: 227 passengers and 12 crew members. Five of the passengers were younger than 5 years old. Those on board included a number of painters and calligraphers, as well as employees of an American semiconductor company.
According to the airline, the passengers' 14 nationalities spanned the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. Passengers from China or Taiwan numbered 154, followed by Malaysians, at 38. There were three U.S. citizens on the plane. Four passengers had valid booking to travel but did not show up for the flight, according to the airline. "As such, the issue of off-loading unaccompanied baggage did not arise," it added Tuesday in a prepared statement.
What we don't know: Whether any of the passengers had anything to do with the plane's disappearance.
THE PASSPORT MYSTERY
What we know: Two passengers boarded the plane using stolen passports. Authorities have identified them as Pouri Nourmohammadi, 18, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, both Iranians. Malaysian police believe Nourmohammadi was trying to emigrate to Germany using the stolen Austrian passport. The men entered Malaysia on February 28 using valid Iranian passports, according to Interpol.
The use of the stolen passports had raised concern that the people who used them might be involved in the plane's disappearance. But officials have said they think it is unlikely the Iranian men had links to terrorist groups. Malaysian police said Nourmohammadi's mother contacted them after her son didn't arrive in Frankfurt as expected.
"The more information we get, the more we're inclined to conclude that it was not a terrorist incident," Ronald Noble, the secretary general of the international police organization Interpol, said Tuesday.
What we don't know: More details about the two men, particularly Reza. Would-be immigrants have used fake passports to try to enter Western countries in the past.
THE SECURITY SCREENING
What we know: Interpol says the passports were listed as stolen in its database. But they had not been checked from the time they were entered into the database and the time the plane departed. Noble said it was "clearly of great concern" that passengers had been able to board an international flight using passports listed as stolen in the agency's database.
What we don't know: Whether the passports had been used to travel previously. Interpol says it's "unable to determine on how many other occasions these passports were used to board flights or cross borders." Malaysian authorities are investigating the security process at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, but insisted it meets international standards.
How does a jet go missing?
THE CREW
What we know: The crew members are Malaysian. The pilot is Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a 53-year-old veteran with 18,365 flying hours who joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981. The first officer, Fariq Ab Hamid, has 2,763 flying hours. Fariq, 27, started at the airline in 2007. He had been flying another jet and was transitioning to the Boeing 777-200 after having completed training in a flight simulator.
What we don't know: What went on in the cockpit around the time the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers. The passenger jet was in what is considered the safest part of a flight, the cruise portion, when it disappeared. The weather conditions were reported to be good. Aviation experts say it's particularly puzzling that the pilots didn't report any kind of problems before contact was lost.
THE SEARCH
Authorities 'puzzled' by missing flight Search area for missing plane widens Are flight recorders 'antiquated?'
What we know: Dozens of ships and planes from various countries have been scouring the South China Sea near where the plane was last detected. Debris in the area has turned out to be unrelated to the plane. "We have not found anything that appear to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department, said Monday. Similarly, a slick in the area was determined to be from fuel oil typically used in cargo ships, not from the plane.
What we don't know: Whether the search is concentrating on the right place. Authorities initially focused their efforts around the mouth of the Gulf of Thailand, near the plane's last known position. But they have expanded efforts westward, off the other coast of the Malay Peninsula, and northward into the Andaman Sea, part of the Indian Ocean.
On Wednesday, authorities announced that they'd doubled the search area from the day before to nearly 27,000 square nautical miles (35,000 square miles).
And a senior Malaysian air force official said early Thursday that its aircraft were heading to a spot where a Chinese satellite detected "suspected floating objects" that may -- or may not -- have come from Flight 370.
Jet was 'at safest point' in flight
THE CAUSE
What we know: Nothing. "For the aircraft to go missing just like that ... as far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled as well," Azharuddin said Monday. The aircraft model in question, the Boeing 777-200ER, has an excellent safety record.
What we don't know: Until searchers find the plane and its voice and data recorders, it may be difficult to figure out what happened. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen says the range of possible reasons behind the disappearance can be divided into three categories: mechanical failure, pilot actions and terrorism. But all we have are theories.
THE PRECEDENT
What we know: It's rare, but not unprecedented, for a commercial airliner to disappear in midflight. In June 2009, Air France Flight 447 was en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when communications ended suddenly from the Airbus A330, another state-of-the-art aircraft, with 228 people on board. It took five days to locate the first piece of debris from that plane -- and nearly two years to find the bulk of Flight 447's wreckage and most of the bodies in a mountain range deep in the Atlantic Ocean. It took even longer to establish the cause of the disaster.
What we don't know: Whether what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is similar to what happened to the Air France flight. Investigators attributed the Flight 447 crash to a series of errors by the pilots and their failure to react effectively to technical problems.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-knowns-unknowns/
陰謀説もあったりするようで、家族などにとっては大迷惑です。
不明機、交信途絶後も4時間飛行か マレーシアは否定
2014年03月13日 19:28 発信地:ワシントンD.C./米国
【3月13日 AFP】米紙ウォールストリート・ジャーナル（Wall Street Journal、WSJ）は13日、8日に消息を絶ったままのマレーシア航空（Malaysia Airlines）MH370便について、米捜査当局が、交信が途絶えた後も4時間飛行を続け、特定の場所に誘導されていた可能性があるとみていると報じた。だがマレーシア当局は同日、同紙の報道を「不正確だ」と否定。同便の行方をめぐる謎は深まる一方だ。同紙は、同便失踪の「事情に詳しい」2人の匿名筋の話として、米航空捜査当局と安全保障当局が、消息を絶ったボーイング（Boeing）777型機が搭載するロールスロイス（Rolls-Royce）製エンジンが自動収集し地上に送信したデータを解析したところ、不明機が計5時間飛行していたとみられることが分かったと報じた。
この報道を基にすると、8日午前1時半（日本時間同3時半）ごろに乗員乗客239人を乗せ北京（Beijing）に向けてクアラルンプール（Kuala Lumpur）を飛び立った同便は、離陸から約1時間後に管制塔と最後に交信した後も、数百マイルは飛行を続けていたことになる。
マレーシアの捜査当局は、同便がハイジャックされた可能性もまだ視野に入れていると言明しており、米中央情報局（CIA）もテロとの関連を排除していない。
同紙は「捜査を追っている人物」の話として、米国の対テロ当局は、操縦士か搭乗者の誰かがレーダーでの検知を避けるため意図的に通信機の電源を切り、予定とは異なる場所に向かった可能性を探っていると伝えた。
また別の情報筋の話として、「別の目的で飛行機を利用するため」に同便が進路を変えたとの仮説に基づき捜査が進められているとの情報を、米当局が受け取ったと報じている。
これに対し、マレーシアのヒシャムディン・フセイン（Hishammuddin Hussein）運輸相代理は13日の記者会見で、「これらの報道は不正確だ」と断言。「ロールスロイスとボーイングのチームは、ここクアラルンプールにおり、9日からマレーシア航空や捜査班と協力している。こういった問題は、一度も持ち上がったことはない」と述べ、同紙の報道を否定した。(c)AFP
http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3010270
はやりアメリカの出番か。
「同機の「ＡＣＡＲＳ」と呼ばれる情報システムからエンジンデータが衛星に送信されていた」というのは大変信憑性があるように思うが、真相はどうでしょうか。
マレーシア機、インド洋に墜落の可能性も 数時間飛行か
2014.03.14 Fri posted at 10:27 JST
（ＣＮＮ） マレーシア航空の旅客機が消息を絶った問題で、米政府高官は１３日、マレーシア当局から得た情報として、不明機はインド洋に墜落した可能性が大きいとの見方を示した。米当局者によると、同機は消息を絶った後も数時間は飛行を続けていた可能性があることが分かり、インド洋にまで範囲を広げて捜索を続行することになった。
米海軍司令官は同日、マレーシア政府の要請を受けて、海軍の駆逐艦「キッド」が捜索のためインド洋に向かっていることを明らかにした。
米当局者がマレーシアの航空当局から得た情報としてＣＮＮに語ったところでは、航空機を識別するためのトランスポンダー信号が同機から最後に発信された４～５時間後に、同機の「ＡＣＡＲＳ」と呼ばれる情報システムからエンジンデータが衛星に送信されていたことが分かったという。
この情報をレーダーのデータや残燃料などの情報と照合した結果、同機が行き先とは反対方向に向かい、インド洋に到達していた可能性があると判断した。
米情報機関や連邦航空局（ＦＡＡ）、運輸安全委員会（ＮＴＳＢ）などの関係者も、衛星に送られてきたデータは行方不明機のものだった可能性が大きいとの結論に達したという。
ただ、この問題を巡っては情報が錯綜（さくそう）している。マレーシア政府は先に、トランスポンダー信号が途絶えた後も同機からデータが送信されていたとする米紙ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル（ＷＳＪ）の報道を否定。別の航空関係者もＷＳＪの報道は誤りだと話していた。
マレーシア機を巡っては、中国の国家国防科学技術工業局が１２日、マレーシアとベトナムの間の海域に浮かぶ物体をとらえたとする衛星画像を公開した。しかしベトナムと中国がこの海域で行った捜索では何も見つからなかった。
マレーシアの航空当局によれば、中国は後に、衛星画像は誤って公開されたものであり、行方不明機に関係のある残骸は写っていないと説明したという。
http://www.cnn.co.jp/world/35045219.html
不明機か、漂流物発見＝自衛隊も捜索参加―豪南西沖
時事通信 3月24日(月)13時11分配信
【シドニー、北京時事】中国の新華社通信によると、消息不明のマレーシア航空機の捜索に当たっている中国軍機が24日、インド洋南部の海域で白色の複数の漂流物を発見した。捜索を指揮するオーストラリアなどは現場海域に航空機や船舶を派遣し、不明機の残骸かどうか確認作業を進める。海上自衛隊のP3C哨戒機2機も豪西部の基地を出発し、捜索に加わった。中国軍機の乗員はオーストラリア南西沖約2500キロの東経95．1度、南緯42．5度の海域で、比較的大きな二つの物体が漂流しているのを確認。その周囲数キロにわたり海面に白い破片が散らばっているという。中国軍機は漂流物の写真を撮っており、関係国と連携して分析を進める方針。
中国側はオーストラリア当局に状況を報告し、支援機の派遣を要請した。インド洋南部に展開する中国の南極観測船「雪竜」など各国の船もこの情報を受けて、該当海域に向かう見通しだ。
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140324-00000061-jij-cn
笑えないが、The mystery of flight MH370: 7 other planes that vanishedに以下の記述がありました。370を月面で発見したというらしいです。どうも宇宙人によって丸呑みされて、月にトランスポートしたって。
World War 2 bomber found on the moon
Since its birth in 1986, the Sunday Sport newspaper has printed major "scoops" including the discovery of a B-52 bomber on the moon in 1988. The incredible find turned out to be just as true as other celebrated Sunday Sport stories, such as "Aliens turned our son into a fish finger" and "Statue of Elvis found on Mars". When it emerged that no such bomber could be found on the lunar surface, the paper ran a follow-up headline on its front page: "World War 2 bomber found on moon vanishes".
This weekend the paper reprised its best-known story, printing the headline "Missing plane found on moon" under a "world exclusive" banner. The report draws attention to an unexplained blip on the radar seen close to the flight MH370, and draws its own conclusions. “The simplest explanation is that this is an intergalactic spacecraft that has swallowed the Boeing 777 whole and transported it to the moon for some extra- terrestrial reason." It also prints an image apparently showing the aircraft - intact and undamaged - on the surface of the moon.
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿