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In July 2003, a ferry traveling to the southeast from the capital of Dhaka sank. The vessel encountered turbulent waters where two rivers merge. The boat, carrying between 500 and 800 people, capsized and quickly took on water. About half of those on the ship were rescued by fishermen or managed to swim to shore about 75 yards away. The overcrowded ferry and strong currents produced one of the deadliest transportation disasters in Bangladesh ever.
Wreckage from the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed on July 6, 2013 while landing at San Francisco International Airport.
Airplane crashes are surprisingly less frequent than most other types of transportation accidents, but they may happen when wind shear occurs, when runways are icy or wet, when planes are not meticulously engineered and maintained, and when pilots overshoot or undershoot runways. Regardless of the cause, plane crashes can be particularly lethal. In certain cases, all passengers onboard will be killed. In November 2001, an Airbus A300‐600 broke apart over Queens, New York, due to problems associated with the stress placed on the vertical stabilizer. Each of the 260 passengers and crewmembers died, and much of the fuselage landed in a neighborhood, which only
added to the adverse consequences. In other cases, passengers may be fortunate to survive plane crashes. A Boeing 777 originating from South Korea crashed on July 6, 2013, at the San Francisco International Airport when it hit the seawall just short of the runway. The pilot was not sufficiently trained on the aircraft he was flying, and the guidance system was disabled at the airport at the time. While there were only 3 fatalities, nearly 200 people were injured. It is certainly amazing the outcome was not more severe. On different occasions, two Boeing 737 Max aircraft experienced fatal accidents due to software issues. Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in 2018 and 2019, respectively. These air disasters resulted when incorrect data from a sensor forced the nose of the aircraft down; 346 passengers and crew were killed, and this resulted in the grounding of such aircraft for many airlines around the world until the software could be fixed in November 2020.