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Why do airlines retire the flight numbers of planes that have crashed? Is that just superstition?
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December 16th, 2015
I was reading about the Park Slope plane crash that happened in 1960. Apparently it was unusual in that United Airlines kept on using the flight number (826) after the crash – most of the time airlines retire the flight number.
see this among others.
Would it bother you to be on a flight that had the same flight number of a plane that crashed? Even if it was a different plane, destination, etc.?
Is this an irrational fear?
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