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Second Kalitta Boeing 747 crash in Columbia

One month and two weeks after the crash of a freighter Boeing 747 in Brussels, a similar accident occured in Columbia. The crew survived, but two persons on ground were killed, and all my thoughts go to their relatives.

When I received the e-mail notification from NTSB, I immediately made the relation to the Brussels accident, but I could not believe it when I read it: the plane that crashed in Columbia was also operated from Kalitta-Air. Wow.

Reacting to that requires to keep a cool mind. Until otherwise demonstrated, there is no relation between these two accidents. The probability that an operator looses two aircraft is rather small, but a low probability does not means something can not happen.

If you flip a coin 10 times, there is one chance on 1024 that you get 10 times a head. Remote but not impossible. I don’t know about the aircraft accident statistics, but it’s not the first time a company loses several aircraft, but the time between these two accidents is at least disturbing.

Investigators will tell if this is simply bad luck, or if there is something wrong with Kalitta. This will take time, and until then, speculiation will go on, as always. Don’t trust anything you could read, see, or hear, unless it comes from an official investigation body.

In aviation like elsewhere, shit happens.

Click here to read the CNN coverage of this accident.

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4 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Val

    I was one of the first 300 furloughed from Eastern in
    the mid 70’s……say what you will but I knew better
    than to accept a billet with Kalitta even in those days….

  2. Just one point, the accident occurred in Colombia in South America, not any one of the dozen or so Columbias in the US.

    OOI, how do you get a notification mail from the NTSB? I’ve not seen that option.

  3. PlasticPilot

    @Cliff, you’re 100% right (I mean correct), as always. It is not in British Columbia, not in District of Columbia, not Columbia South Carolina, but Columbia, the country ;-)

    You can subscribe to the NTSB mailing lists using that link: http://www.ntsb.gov/Registration/registration.htm

  4. > but Columbia, the country

    No, the country is not Columba, it’s Colombia!

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