Pilot reveals the terrifying reason there are so many more plane crashes these days
My fear of flying just got SO much worse
It’s difficult not to be scared of flying right now with the huge number of plane crashes that are happening, and a pilot has revealed the terrifying reason they are getting so much more frequent.
Every month there seems to be another major incident somewhere in the world, while plane crashes used to be really few and far between. So, what’s going on?!
Well, former pilot and crash investigator Shawn Pruchniki says declining safety is to blame.
“As a former commercial pilot, crash investigator and expert in accident causation, I have seen the safety buffer that took decades to build steadily eroded in recent years,” he told the MailOnline.
“The truth is, the experts have been raising the alarm for years. We have watched in horror as planes come within a few hundred feet of each other – on the runway or in the air.”
“If planes come within a couple of miles of each other, we start to worry. Any distance noted in feet counts as within a hair’s breadth of disaster!”
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That doesn’t mean you have to panic every time you go on holiday, because he said air travel is “still the safest mode of transport we have,” but safety is steadily declining.
The ex-pilot also claimed the “chronic shortage of air traffic controllers” makes accidents more likely, and the workers they do have are often “over-worked and over-stressed”.
Plus, he said many airlines are hiring pilots and promoting them through the ranks “with less experience than ever before,” which is a scary thought.
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“We need to continue to develop and invest in technology that will help pilots and air traffic controllers do their jobs – not to replace them, but to assist them,” Pruchniki continued.
“Make no mistake, there is still a pretty good safety buffer in place in our skies but it’s shrinking, and we need to act now if we want to stop it from shrinking further.”
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