What's amazing to me is not only was even the best of pilots able to land a jumbo jet on the Hudson River yesterday without losing a single passenger and keeping the plane basically intact, but that such crises don't happen more often in the hectic, high-stressed commercial aviation industry. It's testimony to the strength of the field's risk management skills that such horrific accident scenarios are actually so rare!


We know that aviation is regulated, and that standard operating procedures impose numerous safety checks and redudancies to keep fliers as safe as possible.

But anyone who has traveled through a big-city airport recently knows how frantic life can be, as jets zoom in for landings and takeoffs every minute or so. And you see how quickly planes are cleaned and refueled after unloading their human cargo and baggage to get off the ground again as soon as possible.

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