Yahoo: 10 Most Dangerous Airlines to Fly

miller_time said:
The 2006 Comair crash at LEX had 47 deaths. In 2009 the Colgan crash that caused such an uproar about safety had 49 deaths. They should have been on the list before SkyWest.
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Neither airline exists anymore; these facts may or may not be related.
 
Where's Air Cubana? I thought they had the worst safety record. They had something like 47 crashes in the last 53 years.
Realizing this top ten list is crap, I wonder if it's being based on number of aircraft "incidents", or number of passengers killed or injured?
 
What a pathetic attempt at journalism Yahoo. I could do better due diligence as a 10 year old. AA has to have at least a couple hundred bodies over the past two decades. And doesn't Aeroflot have a rich history of crashing airplanes with passengers inside?
 
In so many words the head folks at Skywest called the editors on their inaccuracies and were able to get the article rewritten and retracted from Yahoo News.
 
jedipilot said:
In so many words the head folks at Skywest called the editors on their inaccuracies and were able to get the article rewritten and retracted from Yahoo News.
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Yep, I spoke with the PR girl at Sky West Friday for a piece I'm doing on the BS about how this went viral and the idiots who felt it was valid. I followed up with her today. Business Insider originally created the article, Yahoo and Fox picked it up from them. They worked something out with BI and resolved it but its still circulating on travel blogs and such. Yahoo only removed it from their site. BI apparently wrote a editorial retraction but I haven't been able to find it.
 
SeanD said:
Yep, I spoke with the PR girl at Sky West Friday for a piece I'm doing on the BS about how this went viral and the idiots who felt it was valid. I followed up with her today. Business Insider originally created the article, Yahoo and Fox picked it up from them. They worked something out with BI and resolved it but its still circulating on travel blogs and such. Yahoo only removed it from their site. BI apparently wrote a editorial retraction but I haven't been able to find it.
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Not so much an editorial retraction:

Business Insider *Please Alan don't add me as # 15* said:
Editor's Note: As noted in our story, the JACDEC listing covers only 60 airlines. Because there are over 300 airlines, and additional reporting revealed that some of the JACDEC data for some airlines is not consistent with the National Transportation Safety Board data, we have concluded that the best course of action was to shorten the list we posted. We regret any confusion this may have caused.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-10-most-dangerous-airlines-2013-1#ixzz2JN6qShdN
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I'm still trying to figure out these guys' methodology for their "JACDEC Safety Index". Someone legitimate needs to show how much they suck so people stop paying attention to them.
 
They can probably write Yahoo all they'd like, but most of the major search engines employ content farms for SEO, including some automation programs to crank out keywords.
 
SeanD said:
Yup, they pick up every one of my press releases I write, regardless of content. We use a company called PR Web to distribute our stuff and Yahoo is always one that picks them up. I'm guessing a company similar to PR Web picked this one up and it somehow went viral.
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SEO-o-licious.

That's another death knell of journalism because many people use Yahoo, Google and social media for news, but they're aggregating from other sources, or even cranking out their own CEO content to get eyeballs on advertisers.

Wired Magazine had a great article about this a few years ago as well.

Disclaimer: I am not condoning it, just saying that if you scratch the surface, a grand majority of our news consumption comes from content farms with focus on SEO rather than journalism. Hell, there's little actual journalism going on.

"Eight Saucy Ways to Spice Up Your Sex Life!" <--- Boom! Traffic!
 
miller_time said:
The 2006 Comair crash at LEX had 47 deaths. In 2009 the Colgan crash that caused such an uproar about safety had 49 deaths. They should have been on the list before SkyWest.
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Are either of those airlines still around?? It'd be kinda silly to include airlines no longer in existence..
 
zmiller4 said:
Not so much an editorial retraction:



I'm still trying to figure out these guys' methodology for their "JACDEC Safety Index". Someone legitimate needs to show how much they suck so people stop paying attention to them.
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I've taken care of this the best I can, or at least I hope I have ;) Im hoping what I wrote gets published today and begins making the rounds sometime this morning if our PR distributor approves it. Ill post a link once it goes live.
 
SeanD said:
I wouldn't say I'm legitimate but I put in my .02 on the study in this the best I can, or at least I hope I have ;) Im hoping what I wrote gets published today and begins making the rounds sometime this morning if our PR distributor approves it. Ill post a link once it goes live.
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canadian_atc said:
WTF, why is Gol on that list?

Their one crash was 100% not their fault
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Most of them on that list had accidents caused by other thing that had nothing to do with airline safety. That Air India incident was a bomb and that put them at number 3.
 
ChasenSFO said:
HAHAHAAHAHA! This is hilarious.

Korean Air, Thai, Saudia? None of those airlines have been sketchy what so ever in the past several years, but...SkyWest? Really. Not Adam Air of Indonesia or Rawandair or something, but the largest regional airline in the US which hasn't lost a passenger since a 737 landed on top of one of their metroliners in 93? Ok then.

I was expecting to see 10 airlines most people on here wouldn't have even heard of, but then I re-read the title. Yahoo. Makes sense.
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I was thinking the same thing! South African Airways only had one accident(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295) and that one was controversial. Same thing with GOL when they collided with that Embraer Legacy. I would expect some other airlines that have had serious safety problems to be on the list but who wrote this article-oh wait, it's not there anymore, the link is dead. Maybe some people put some bad remarks and Yahoo took the article down!.:bounce:
 
modernicarus said:
Where's Air Cubana? I thought they had the worst safety record. They had something like 47 crashes in the last 53 years.
Realizing this top ten list is crap, I wonder if it's being based on number of aircraft "incidents", or number of passengers killed or injured?
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I don`t know the real number, but it`s probably half of that with a good number of those planes being hijacked, couple were even shut down by the United States Air Force..
 
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