Plane Occurances

From USA Today:
"Closeness of crashes coincidental, experts say"

The crash of a TransAsia Airways turboprop in Taiwan comes six days after the tragedy July 17 involving Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Then, one week after the tragedy of MH 17, an Air Alegerie jet carrying 116 passengers disappeared while en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso. At this time, no one knows what happened to that plane. Although the crashes may have come a few days apart, industry experts say that's nothing more than a coincidence. "Air travel remains safe," Henry Harteveldt, aviation and travel industry analyst at Atmosphere Research Group in San Francisco said Wednesday after the TransAsia crash. "The facts show it is safer than any other form of transportation." "Unfortunately, we just had two terrible, unrelated aviation accidents occur," Harteveldt says. "Obviously, the Malaysian plane was shot out of the sky, and the TransAsia incident was an incident where the airplane crashed in bad weather. These are two unrelated events."  "Commercial aviation has reached incredible levels of safety in the past decades, but we still see occasional accidents or incidents such as these," Beatty said. "These are tragedies, but commercial aviation is still extremely safe." Though crashes of commercial passenger planes have become rare, it's not unprecedented for them to occur within a short time period.

^ It does seem a little odd that it happened in Taiwan and Algeria (the Ukraine one is different as it is a terrorist act.) Everyone always says how safe it is to fly and then you hear about how ineffective the TSA and other airport screeners are (focusing on the elderly and very young while allowing banned items through, etc.) If a plane goes down you have a very slim change of getting out alive unlike driving a car. Maybe the world aviation authorities should start focusing on better security and tighter maintenance checks. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/23/recent-crashes-no-cause-for-concern-experts-say/13048153/