Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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I'm Ruth Alexander.
And I'm Hannah Moore.
But first, are plane crashes becoming more common?
A plane has crashed in the French Alps, killing 150 people on board.
News that has shocked the world.
There were no survivors from the crash.
Only a further dreadful twist as we learned that recordings from inside the plane suggested co-pilot Andres Lubitz had brought it down on purpose.
My initial reaction on hearing the news was, what another plane crash?
What's going on?
There was the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot out of the sky by a missile while flying over Ukraine on the 17th of July.
The TransAsia Airlines flight, which crashed in Taiwan six days later.
And then just a day after that, an Air Algerie flight crashed in Mali.
So more likely than not.
But since then, there have been more big, dramatic crashes.
The Alps crash, also the Indonesia Air Asia Airbus that crashed into the Java Sea in bad weather in December.
the TransAsia Airways plane which crashed shortly after take-off in Taiwan in February, and of course it's the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared.
So we've been looking at the numbers again.
Oh, 21 really is a small number then.
But what did spike last year is the number of people killed in the few crashes that happened.
Almost 1,000 people died in the eight passenger plane crashes, the most in a single year since 2005.
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