Some Tough Questions About Airline Safety
September, 1979
Last spring, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after take-off from Chicago's O'Hare Field, killing all 271 persons on board and two others on the ground. It was the worst crash ever in the U. S. Among the dead were four people who were friends and colleagues of ours (see page 285).There's a special scale to the horror when a large airplane crashes. Few other technological disasters cause so much death so quickly and leave so many unfinished lives. In this case, the plane--American fligh...
