Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane and unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
100 Mind-Blowing Crash Facts
During the first live iPhone presentation, Steve Jobs had to frequently switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.
The name for a collective group of rhinoceroses is called a crash.
During 9/11, some fighters took off without live ammo, knowing that to stop the hijackers, the pilots might have to crash their fighters into the planes.
A crocodile escaped out of a duffel bag on board a flight in the Congo, causing everybody to go to the front of the plane. This caused the plane to crash, leaving only one survivor.
A woman once survived falling from an aeroplane at 33,000 ft high. Vesna Vulovic holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. The Serbian flight attendant was the only survivor of the JAT Airways plane crash of 1972. Following the crash, she was in a coma and could not walk for 10 months. She managed to live until the age of 66.
Almost 1.25 million people die in road accidents every year. That makes an average of 3,287 road crash deaths per day.
Animals have some unusual group names. For instance, a group of parrots is known as a pandemonium. Buffalo form an “obstinacy” and rhinoceroses a “crash.” You may have heard of a “murder” of crows, but what about an “exaltation” of larks?
Rocky Road ice cream was originally marketed during the Great Depression as a metaphor for coping with the economic crash.
Steve Jobs used sleight of hand at the first iPhone presentation. The first iPhone presentation happened six months before the iPhone was set to hit the market. At that time, the phone was too buggy to use, so Steve Jobs often had to switch phones behind his desk. Otherwise, it would run out of RAM and crash.
Because astronomical time and atomic time don’t always line up, every so often, we get a leap second. Earth’s spin speed can be a bit unpredictable. Atmospheric winds, Northern Hemisphere winters with heavy snow, and other big weather systems can affect how fast the planet rotates. To keep the difference between astronomical time and atomic time to less than .9 seconds, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will occasionally announce the need for a leap second. Most people won’t notice a leap second, but they can be a huge pain for tech companies. Because leap seconds are added irregularly, developers have no way of working them into their codes, which has caused websites like LinkedIn and Reddit to crash in the past. A bug caused by 2012’s leap second created so much chaos on Qantas’s servers, more than 400 flights wound up being delayed.