The crash received extensive media coverage and the public demanded answers. Before it reached its scheduled stop in Wichita, KS, however, it crashed near the small town of Bazaar, KS. On March 31, 1931, Transcontinental and Western Airlines Flight 5 took off from Kansas City, MO for Los Angeles, CA. There had been many air crashes before, but none seemed to catch the attention of the American public as much as the one that killed legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 ( right). As a result of each of these ten tragedies, commercial aviation really is safer today than it was in the past.Īn advertisement for the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American ( left). Yet this pattern of commercial aviation disasters triggering the subsequent enactment of safety measures dates back the early 1930s. The reactive nature of the FAA continues today, with many criticizing its failure to prevent the crash of two Boeing 737 MAX aircrafts and the loss of nearly 350 lives. The FAA is sometimes called a “tombstone agency”: change only comes after a death -and usually only after a large number of deaths.
Airline passengers in the United States have come to expect these kinds of security measures as a guarantee that their flight will be safe, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists attacks and subsequent threats in the 21 st century.
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We take off our shoes and coats and send them through the X-ray machine with our laptops (separate bins, please), while subjecting ourselves to a full body-scan.
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