The airline magazines seem to think taxi way travel and contractor loading is more accident prone... planes that cross paths on the taxi way, and clip wings,, or food vendors who pull up to a plane,and lift the truck box before the door is fully open... I just did a connecting flight,, the first one was cabin full of smoke on take off.. dump fuel in the hudson, and land... with a zillion EMS parked on the ground waiting to foam etc.. this is a very hard landing as they go in full throttle and slam it down.. then use all the brakes they have to stop a long way from population ,, keep the carnage away from the building.. at least we didn't have to evac as the issue extinguished itself ... reloaded into brand new plane,, 6 days old , hasn't seen a commercial passenger ... required emergency booklets to be passed out while we sat waiting for contractor to load the beer, peanuts, and other food... and they broke the rear door off.. an hour later.. 6 mechanics had duct taped the door in place,.. joked with me about 600 mph tape! ... and we headed to Miami... made the cruise ship wait an hour for us... last couple on board.. sucks! to understand how close to death.. or pontooning on the Hudson.. we were!
