Posted 8/09/2004 04:31:00 PM by Douglas

A long-time reader pointed out today that there's excessive bias in the blog against general aviation mishaps going on throughout the state, and that the media unfairly accentuates plane crashes while largely ignoring the thousands of car crashes that happen every day. Is a plane crashing into your house a bigger story because it's a plane and not a car? I don't know, some could make a case for that argument, and I think reasonable people can disagree on the subject, but I don't think that there's a glaring public conspiracy against small planes. There might be, however, a conspiracy among those of us that are biased against small planes crashing into our homes, but I don't think that it's any greater than those of us that are biased against cars crashing into our homes, either..

So, in the interest of equal time, here's some information of the worst commercial airline disaster of all time. The Tenerife crash of KLM flight 4805 and Pan-Am 1736, two fully loaded 747s that met abruptly in the Canary Islands on March 27, 1977 17:06:50 (GMT), killing 578 people. And if you're really interested, check out the cockpit voice recorder in KLM 4805.