AUTHORS: Bilgesu Caferoğlu, Burcu Süeda Acar (http://burcusuedaacar219.blogspot.com.tr/)
Safety Records of Iberia Airlines and Pegasus Airlines
In this Assignment, our duty is to find the accidents and
incidents of the airlines we work on, and review their safety records
in comparison. Also, at the end of our comparison, we'll review an
accident of Iberia airlines in more detail.
To make the comparison easier, we created some charts & tables
as following:
As you can see from the tables, Pegasus Airlines have a nearly-perfect
safety record. The airline only had 2 incidents which did not result
in death of any passenger or crew member. Since the airline did not
have any accidents
we created a summary of the incidents:
1. On March 10, 2010, Pegasus Airlines Flight 361/A319) made an
emergecy landing at Frankfurt Airport. The flight landed safely but
blew both front nose gear tires. Runway 07/R25L was closed for 3 hours
and recovered.
2. On February 7, 2014 Pegasus Airlines flight 751(B737) was the
victim of an attempted hijacking. The hijacker demanded to be flown to
Sochi, but flight landed safely in İstanbul.
Iberia Airlines on the other hand, has 14 accidents and 23 incidents
over the years. But the fact that Iberia Airlines existed for 90 years
while Pegasus is only 28 years-old is worth mentioning. Iberia
Airlines was found in 1927 and the airline saw through the development
of aviation, they owned many historical airplanes but continued to
develop and always stayed on track with current technology. That's why
their safety record is very reliable for past decade, since they did
not have as many occurences as they did on the early years of
aviation.
Since there are a lot of accidents/incidents that Iberia Airlines was
involved, instead of listing all of them here, we provided links for
you to reach the sources.Please click 1, 2, 3.
One of the Iberia Airlines accidents was very tragic and it really did
make us learn a lesson. So we wanted to share that one with you. On
January 7 1972, Iberia airlines Flight 602 crashed into a mountain.
The flight took of from Valencia bound for Ibiza. The aircraft was
approaching RWY 07 when it descended below 2000 ft. Reportedly,
neğither the captain nor the co-pilot noticed the dangerous descent,
as they were discudding a football match with the airport tower
controller. Flight 602 struck Mount Atalaysa approximately 90 ft below
its summit and exploded on impact. All on board was killed.
Sources: https://www.aeroinside.com/incidents/airline/iberia
http://www.airsafe.com/events/airlines/iberia.htm
