Every year 50 million people use the Amsterdam Schipol airport. Last week a Turkish Airliner crashed just short of one of the runway. Nine people died and the cause was due to a faulty altimeter, a gauge that measures the attitude of the plane above ground. The plane was on auto pilot for landing and the plane thought it was already reaching ground level instead of still a few hundred feet above ground because of the faulty altimeter. This was just an incredible incident with nothing to do with pilot error but for a faulty altimeter. It really makes flying a bit scary.
The airport itself suffered minor hiccup to its overall operations. There are 5 others runways that could be used in the meantime, amazing, considering Holland is a small but densely populated country, with a lot of industry and highly intensive agriculture crammed into very limited space. Agriculture, industry and government compete for every piece of land. Yet the wisdom to build 6 runways is such a land-constrained country is an amazing planning and foresight. Whereas Heathrow has been wrangling for a third runway for many years now and won't be ready until 2020.
Every year 50 million people use the Amsterdam Schipol airport. Last week a Turkish Airliner crashed just short of one of the runway. Nine people died and the cause was due to a faulty altimeter, a gauge that measures the attitude of the plane above ground. The plane was on auto pilot for landing and the plane thought it was already reaching ground level instead of still a few hundred feet above ground because of the faulty altimeter. This was just an incredible incident with nothing to do with pilot error but for a faulty altimeter. It really makes flying a bit scary.
The airport itself suffered minor hiccup to its overall operations. There are 5 others runways that could be used in the meantime, amazing, considering Holland is a small but densely populated country, with a lot of industry and highly intensive agriculture crammed into very limited space. Agriculture, industry and government compete for every piece of land. Yet the wisdom to build 6 runways is such a land-constrained country is an amazing planning and foresight. Whereas Heathrow has been wrangling for a third runway for many years now and won't be ready until 2020.
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