10. Shocking Number of Plane Crashes
August 16, 2010 – updated By Holly Deyo
With 10 plane crashes in the first 11 days of August, I wondered is this unusually high? I decided to investigate and was shocked to see so man statistics stack up. My search was nearly complete when news of Tuesday's Alaskan crash hit the airwaves.
Since so many accidents came up the search was limited to only the past 4 months. Even so, what a surprise to see a whopping 77 wrecks in that short a time.
To make matters worse, there are surely more incidents than could be located as some may have occurred without mention in the news or websites could have "rolled them off" into ether space. Crashes that occurred in other countries – unless they were too major to ignore like the July 28 Pakistan disaster – likely didn't even make global news on the Internet.
In all probability the 79 count is considerably underrated.
According to Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) based in Geneva, the statistics (left) for the last decade only cover aircraft carrying at least 6 passengers and they don't include choppers or military fighters.
After looking at the numbers, it makes one wonder if this is a year so drive to destinations... or in Dirty Harry's infamous words, do you feel lucky?