MOMENT see the view from airplane window, most of us may be wondering why windows are always oval in shape.
Like all features related to aircraft, this is not the result of pure coincidence or aesthetic preference. This relates to two plane crashes that have occurred in the near future.
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Launch NZ Herald, Saturday (2/10/2021), in 1952, the British de Havilland Comet became the first scheduled commercial flight with a pressurized cabin and turbojet engine which allowed it to fly higher and faster than any other aircraft at the time.
Just one year later Comet was considered a global success. The science and technology magazine ‘Popular Mechanics’ claims the British plane is three to five years ahead of other jetliners around the world.
On 10 January 1954, flight 781 departed from Rome’s Ciampino Airport with 35 passengers and crew, bound for London.
The jet flew for approximately 15 minutes before cracking in the sky and plummeting into the Mediterranean Sea. None of the passengers survived.
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A few months later, 21 passengers suffered the same fate flying from London to Johannesburg on South African Airways flight 201. The bodies found showed the same injuries to the head and lungs as on flight 781.
After an investigation, it was found that a common factor in accidents was square windows.
