There’s a lot we still don’t know about yesterday morning’s crash of a UPS Airbus A300 in Birmingham, Alabama. But what we do know is both troubling and at the same time eerily reminiscent of the Asiana Flight 214 crash in San Francisco last month.
The causes of these crashes won’t be determined for some time, and so there’s no point speculating about whether similar factors were involved in either tragedy. What we do know is that two large transport-category jets crashed short of the runway attempting to land during approaches that should have been routine affairs given the experience of the crews.
