My Memory goes to Ethiopian Airlines flight 302

The Air industry, An industry of responsibility focused on safety

Ethiopian Airline is for me part of the best African airlines if not the best.

it is an industry of responsibility focused on safety because if something wrong happens there are very few opportunities for avoiding the catastrophe, I mean the life of a hundred and more passengers. There isn't an accident which is not sad but when an aircraft crashes the emotion we feel seems to be more amplified than when it is a car or any other means of transportation. Measuring fatality provided air transportation a safer place than the other types of transportation because the fatality rate for trains is 0.4 for every one billion passenger-kilometers, 4 per every one billion kilometers traveled while the overall road traffic fatality rate is 18 per every 100,000 population and it is worth to know that roads kill more people in “poor” countries like mine. Measuring emotions and comparing them is not an exact science because every one of us has its own story and emotions are almost always driven by story. For example, rediscovering the story of the passengers of this Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 made me think that an airplane crash is the worse situation to live with and I was putting myself in the place of these 149 passengers from 35 different nationalities who like all other people died from accidents experienced a very difficult ending. This emotion I felt made me think again about the responsibility involved in working in the air industry be it in aircraft manufacturing, in airlines, or airports operations. This emotion led to this article that you are reading right now which has the purpose of honoring these people dead in this Ethiopian airlines flight 302

At the funeral, family members carried the portraits of their loved ones. The burial ceremony was also attended by Ethiopian Airlines crew members who lost eight of their colleagues. /VCG Photo here

and all other persons dead from an accident be it an accident of a plane, a car, a bus, or a train. For their families and relatives, these numbers below may be difficult to consume

But numbers can help us find where we should care enough to experience less of these accidents in the future and this is the only goal of this study of airlines crashes I was writing about in this article and since I started this study you can see now that my perception changed and I am being more empathic to others

I always thought of Ethiopian airlines as being the best airline in African with its effort of operating new planes and qualified and nice aircrew members and I still do. But I still believe that the age of aircraft matters a lot for safety and that’s the reason of being of these study about airline crashes I was writing about in this article when I was telling that I was collecting 11,164 data points aboutair crashes manually is time-consuming for an alone entrepreneur like me like how it is for these 2599 data points. I still believe that Ethiopian is a responsible and safe air carrier an one among the best African airline. It just happen that sometimes we we are hitten events that we can’t predict and avoid. That’s was what I think has happened to the ethiopian Airlines flight 302 with of course what I think as a lack of information of Boeing about this MCAS system that was introduced into the design of the 737 MAX.

Remembering the Ethiopian airline flight 302 highlighted me that this crowdfunding platform that I was writing about in this article could have a narrower audience made of people who care about those who lost their life in an aircraft accidents.

When we work on multiple things it is like our brain try to connect the dots and it for often end up connecting them because there was any relation between my interest in air accident and crowdfunding metrics and market. All my apologies to the families members of those who lost their life in an accident because this is about commomering them and I was not supposed to talk about business models and economics but I did. Sound like I cannot keep myself from talking and writing about business in tech.

I wish and hope that all of you who have left us from an accident rest in peace onto the peaceful hands of the One Who I believe.

I wish and hope that Airlines operations will be safer and safer and that we will deploy all our efforts and skills to make safety the first and top priority and I think that safety concepts learning should be part of this operations management game.