sometimes reads and hears so amazing about various means of transport. And I want to exclude air travel times, although it unclear to the layman this and that remains. To an outsider, is not as readily apparent why one on the flight from Cologne to Munich, for example, the master finds out that they had reached the cruising altitude of 9000 meters, but again with the sinking and landing patronize. 9000 meters! Why so high, the uninitiated could not help wondering. Would not it be much less risky when you were flying only 10 meters? Just in case that the aircraft is something wrong?
professionals to answer these concerns to the casual statement that one at 9000 meters height declared in this case would have been much longer time to respond to the error, which would be hardly possible at 10 meters. Altogether you can probably live with the wisdom that you have to reserve a seat on each flight at the front should, because it is safe there, in the context of a fall, the beverage cart rolls over again. is
For train, bus and car to the problem of cruising altitude's not, at least not in normal operation. Who a country road with a small car and 120 miles per hour travels on and is brought on the first-best curve of the tires may naturally be catapulted on a stunning trajectory in a wheat field. But this, as I said, should not the question. Normally, at bus, train and car travel, the systemic level is zero.
But even then it can lead to serious accidents. In any case, is yes - computed to passenger-kilometers - travel air travel still the safest way. But what use is the best statistic when you sit on board of a disaster machine? For bus travel is like. have recently know that some pensioners have their coach burned. Unfortunately, there were deaths and injuries and. The newscaster on the radio yet, said that many of these pensioners could move only with crutches anyway, and therefore were rather helpless when disaster befell them. But even with such a dramatic incident, one can imagine Hollywood film with sufficient experience or less figuratively, irritate some details. For example, when the radio announcer says in an aside that the pensioner had bekrückten on the way back from a dance (!) Found.
Well, you can not always easy to look behind the scenes. Not even in the security planning of the Train. Even if we let the unfortunate break axles of the ICE trains times aside, you can learn amazing things from time to time. For example, because a freight train rolled through the country with coal and can not brake suddenly. The situation worsened when the track is too steep and the train accelerates. The news report that the train was only stopped by a factory building, and indeed at one of the internal fire walls.
How are the train drivers? Means caring questions. Well, they're fine. Before they are ready to jump - a behavior the way that one can imagine at all in the Christian navigation could. Why they jumped off? This explains A security expert from the web in the interview. There are strict: two levels of security for such trains. The first is the brake system. When this failed, the platoon leader instructed cab and train must leave immediately and hastily. Could happen actually do anything, because there was indeed a second stage: the Notgleise. There, the trains were stopped at the braking free end by a bumper.
reached in the case described, however neither of the two levels of security. The train ran over the buffer stop loose and confident and dug a little later into the next building. The unthinkable had happened: Two levels of security breached!
What did the emergency planners of the train apparently not: So a fully loaded freight train with coal is quite heavy. This weighed about 180 tons. And pace had 70 on it, approximately. 180 tons! The imagination of the human spirit will fail if the sheer task of the present size of the buffer that could stop this train abruptly. Not so the experts. As is the technical definition of manual: buffer, device for emergency braking of a rail vehicle. What more could you want?
now would have only time to find out whether the train is served in their train restaurant very hungry for the main course cooked quail egg. Then this would all at least a certain system.
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© 2008 Julius Moll / cologne-Prussian Editing Institute
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