Continental Crash
December 22, 2008 – 12:08 pmThe WSJ has a good recap of the Continental Crash which occurred over the weekend. You’ll likely be reading copious amounts of speculation regarding the root cause of this crash. However, with most commercial jet crashes there is a better chance that this accident was caused by the unanticipated interaction of a few small things going wrong.
For instance, it is very unlikely that the 30 MPH winds caused this crash, as one story I read specualted. However, it is quite possible that when something else what wrong, the problem was exasperated by the 30 MPH winds. The NTSB should be out with an initial finding over the next couple weeks and everyone will have forgotten about this by the time the comphrensive report is released.
