| Everyone wants to have a more comfortable flight | | | | one that would carry almost twice as many |
| but did you ever think about how this desire | | | | passengers. They designed a jet with two different |
| competes with the airlines ability to provide you with | | | | levels. An airline based in Southeast Asia expressed a |
| the utmost in safety? | | | | desire to purchase such a jet. |
| The public desire for larger and faster aircraft | | | | There were a token number of test flights for the |
| sometimes comes head to head with the need for | | | | newly-designed and larger aircraft. No one seemed to |
| greater airplane safety. This fact was magnified soon | | | | question whether or not a measure of airplane |
| after the world had welcomed the arrival of the year | | | | safety could be properly made from just those few |
| of 2000. One of the supersonic jets then carrying | | | | token test flights. The public needed a larger plane, a |
| passengers across the Atlantic gave the public an | | | | plane that could help to ease the congestion on the |
| eye-opening experience. | | | | runways. |
| A piece of scrap left on the runway caught on one | | | | Therefore plans were made to initiate use of the |
| tire of a departing supersonic jet. The resulting crash | | | | larger jet plane. Once again the public desire for larger |
| led to a re-evaluation of the requirements for airplane | | | | and faster aircraft had trumped the need for airplane |
| safety. Eventually, the airlines decided to discontinue | | | | safety. Once again, only time would reveal the |
| the use of those two jets. Now passengers are no | | | | wisdom of relying on this new and larger plane. |
| longer able to get a super-speedy flight from London | | | | Sometimes we put our "want to haves" in front of |
| or Paris to a U.S airport. | | | | our "must haves", it's only human nature to want the |
| For a time after that accident, airplane safety had | | | | best of the best, but when the public clamors for |
| the attention of the public. Of course, the public, as | | | | more comfort the airlines must react by giving it to |
| always, quickly forgot about the accident that had so | | | | them. At times this can take priority over giving more |
| recently appeared on the TV and computer screens. | | | | safety. So next time you want a more comfortable |
| Airplane designers could sense the dying concern for | | | | seat or larger planes you might want to think about |
| airplane safety, and the increased desire for a way | | | | how this impacts the safety of air flight and your |
| to ease airport congestion. | | | | safety in general. |
| Airplane designers introduced the idea of a larger jet, | | | | |