Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:

Ned wrote in :

Ten Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation
Popular Mechanics David Noland October 13, 2007

The list doesn't mention one single crash that happened outside of
North America. Is that a reflex of the worldview of American media? I
would have thought that the Tenerife disaster made an impact.

Regards


It also does not mention a single crash before the 1950s. Almost every
standard in civil aviation is the result of an accident investigation - and
the really basic lessons were learned as early as the 20s and 30s. Some
local examples include Southern Cloud (radio communications) and Kyeema
(radio navigation), both in the thirties, and I am sure there are similar
ones in North America even if you restrict your crashes to there. And these
lessons are even more basic than anything post war.

JD