Airline accidents, tragic as they are, do help us learn much that helps make future flyers safer. WSJ Columnist and Reagan White House Speech Writer Peggy Noonan thinks that an important cultural lesson for Americans can be gleaned from the recent accident on January 2 in Tokyo when an inbound Japan Airlines flight collided with a smaller Japanese Coast Guard Plane enroute to assist in earthquake relief effort as the much larger Airbus A350 was landing.
The Japan Air jet was quickly engulfed by fire and smoke before it could be brought to a stop. Yet all 367 people aboard, mostly Japanese, survived by reacting calmly and politely following the directions of the flight attendants and pilots. Ms. Noonan’s recent column suggests that a plane full of Americans would have reacted differently.
Americans should take a few minutes to consider What America Can Learn From the Tokyo Crash.
