¿Sabíso he 17 July histórichly is the día más fatal of the history of aviationón? We tell you in this installment whyé y cóeverything startedó on Ecuador. Foto Air Crash Investigation
As we like to review in this space, the aviationón has endless curiosities and even up myths, where it stands out for example “The rule of three in aviationón” as one of the más important to highlight and that más debate genera.
Just in these daysíYou passed a very important account on Twitter @OnDisasters, that reviews the history of accidentséprisoners in the worldía a día publicó one piece of informationón very important: “as of the date of 17 July is dark for securityérea. From 1945, there has been at least 16 major airplane accidents in this día, with a total of 902 víhonor”
This informationófastó I pay attentionón and seeing the gráThe surprise was greater when seeing that this coincidence wasíStatica beganó on Ecuador on 1946.
17 July the worstífor aviationón
Was a 17 July 1946 when a Curtiss C-46D matríAerosol HC-SCA cylinderíEcuadorian line ANDESA – Aerovías Nacionales del Ecuador S.A had an accidentó with 30 fatalities in what is now the El Vergel Shopping Center after a frustrated landing, increíably, two people survived the fatal accident.
To theún más surprise, This same accident was the first recorded histórichly in Ecuador and the first registered tooén for the city of Cuenca and from this event, coincidence or not, Fatal accidents have been repeated throughout the history of aviation.ón until the úlast happened in 2017.
The important aviation portalón dedicated to the history of aviation accidentsón Aviation Safety Network details the following:
The 17 July is the worstíin the history of aviationón with 902 deaths in 16 plane crashes, themselvesún ASN data. This includes both accidents and events involving illegal interference..
The average during the periodíodo 1946-2020 It is 235 deaths in 11 accidents.
| 17 JULIO 1946 | Curtiss C-46 | ANDESA | 30 |
| 17 JULIO 1950 | Douglas C-47 | Indian National Airways | 22 |
| 17 julio 1955 | Convair CV-340 | Braniff International Airways | 22 |
| 17 julio 1958 | Curtiss C-46 | Dominicana by Aviación | 2 |
| 17 julio 1963 | Curtiss C-46 | Air America | 6 |
| 17 julio 1994 | Yakovlev 40 | Service Aéreo Sankuru | 5 |
| 17 julio 1994 | Britten-Norman BN-2B Islander | Air Martinique | 6 |
| 17 julio 1995 | DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 | Merpati Nusantara Airlines | 1 |
| 17 julio 1996 | Boeing 747-131 | Trans World Airlines – TWA | 230 |
| 17 julio 1996 | DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 | Aerolatino | 1 |
| 17 JULIO 1997 | Fokker F-27 Amistad | Transport toéreo de sempati | 28 |
| 17 julio 1998 | Ilyushin 78 | Air Sofaía | 10 |
| 17 JULIO 2000 | Boeing 737-2A8 | Alliance Air | 55 |
| 17 JULIO 2002 | DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 | Skyline Airways | 4 |
| 17 JUL 2007 | Airbus A320-233 | TAM Lines Aéreas | 187 |
| 17 JUL 2014 | Boeing 777-2H6ER | Malaysia Airlines | 298 |
The events más fatal in these daysíThis was the downing of the Malaysia Airlines with 298 deceased, followed by the Boeing crash 747 of THREE con 230 víctimas and that of TAM in Sao Paulo in 2007 with 187 fatalities complete the list of incidents that have occurred in the trágic 17 of June.
For a breadth of informationón, I also share with youén this gráwhere we can see youáthe y dówhere have these events been:
coincidence or not, without a doubt a curiosityás of the fascinating world of aviationón. ¿You whoé What do they think about these repetitive events? 17 of July?
