Sky-High Domino Effect!
Really. It happens and it happened last night in the Philippine capital, Manila, when a Xiamen Airlines plane skidded off the runway and ditched to a muddy grassy portion. That picture above isn't mine. I just copied it from Business World so I can show some image in this blog story regarding the mishap. Such disruptions, by the way, are considered 'normal' by experts, from the point of view of operating airports. It can happen to any airport anywhere anytime. And they know too, that accidents like those can cause a mind-boggling 'domino effect' of disruptions in air travel. OMG! So, is it really normal? Well, it obviously is/was not normal - at least for us the riding public who are not at the airport daily. For aviation authorities, experts or employees, when they say "normal" - they actually want to say "it happens" or "it can happen" to/at any airport. In any case, like it already did since midnight, that accident is going...