MOST DANGEROUS U.S AIRPORTS

When many people think of the words “Dangerous” and “Airports” they think about mid-air plane crashes, but in reality most fatal accidents occur on the ground. According to a recent Forbes study, 450 airports were reviewed for safety, and found that the highest number of deaths occurred at heavily congested airports. Every year an average of four hundred people lose their lives to accidents that occur when directions are not correctly followed and precautions are not taken.

Topping the list of the U.S most dangerous airports is Northtown, Las Vegas, which had sixty-three runway incursions since 2001, which resulted in six fatalities. Next on the list is Long Beach/Dougherty Field, which was the scene of seventy-eight incidents, but luckily no fatalities. In both airports the main causes were attributed to congestion and high flight volumes. Both of the airports mentioned serve as primarily reliever ports for Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Also high on the list was surprisingly North Carolina’s Charlotte/Douglas International airport due to a 2003 US airways commuter craft that crashed into a hanger during takeoff resulting in 21 fatalities. In the Charlotte case, the cause was attributed to poor maintenance not airport liability. Absent from the list of dangerous airports were some of the big ones such as JFK and LaGuardia as well as Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta according to AirfaresInternationalCheap.com.

Coming in at number 5 is Los Angeles LAX with over ninety accidents since 2001. At number 6 we find Boston’s Logan with 53 incidents followed closely by number 7 Phoenix, Sky Harbor with 49 incidents. Number eight was Newark International, with number 9 being Chicago O’Hare and ten, Chicago Midway.