Yemeni Plane Cash

Following the devastating crash of Air France Flight 447, yet another plane has crashed. While trying to land off of the Comoros Islands, a small nation north of Madagascar, the plane ran into heavy winds and as a result crashed. Out of all the people on board, there has only been one found survivor, a 12 year-old child. One thing that I want to know is why we have had so many crashes recently. Since 2004 there have been 49 plane crashes out of the tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of flights so the number is not horrifyingly high, but it does raise some questions. Does it just seem that way because we have a lot more traffic, or are there other reasons. Some people have speculated that as 2012 approaches, people will die more quickly and frequently but there is no proof for this. So are airplane crashes only seeming more common because there are more flights or is the world coming to an end?

Swine Flu

Today, the WHO declared that the Swine Flu is now a pandemic. This came after the virus had spread to 74 countries with 28,774 cases, 144 of them causing deaths. The WHO also declared that the Flu was unstoppable but if this is the case, then how come there are only about 28,000 cases. Although it may not be possible to eliminate the virus, we have proven that it is possible to slow it down. One big question is how did the virus originate? The answer is that it originated on a hog farm in Mexico where over one million hogs live and are slaughtered. The problem that caused the outbreak was not that there were too many hogs, but that when they were slaughtered and their remains were disposed of, the workers did not take enough care with the remains and the piles of dead bodies became breeding pools for the Swine Flu. This shows that the Swine Flu may have been able to be prevented altogether if the Mexican Government had more strict rules on the disposal of the remains of slaughtered pigs. Another thing about the Swine Flu is that it has a fairly low mortality rate and if people who are showing symptoms reach a hospital in time, then they will be fine. As new information comes in I will keep you up to date.

Info on Air France Flight 447

Now that it has been confirmed that Air France Flight 447 crashed, the only things left to do are find the blackbox, recover the bodies and wreckage, and find out who is to blame. There is already a French Submarine that is searching for the blackbox and is covering 35 square miles a day and there are a lot of ships and planes searching for the rest of the bodies and wreckage so now we need to find out who is to blame. Many different sources have reported that most likely, the plane flew into a thunderstorm and broke apart. But was it the pilot’s fault that he flew into a storm or was it the ATC’s fault for telling the pilot that everything was going to be fine. Another possibility was that the Aircraft experienced technical difficulties but the Airbus A330s have had almost no crashes and the engines that the plane was using are in use on over 15,000 planes worldwide. The plane and engines have had very few reported problems when taken care of so there is a possibility that Air France did not properly maintain the plane. As more information comes to light I hope that we can get to the bottom of this question.