The aviation community is split. Purists argue that accident data should be free and open. Ron has defended the fee as necessary for server costs and his own research time. However, critics note that much of the raw data is scraped from government sources. The result is a strange hybrid: a public servant that charges admission.
Los Rodeos was not designed to handle this volume of heavy jet traffic. Aircraft were parked haphazardly on the taxiway, forcing the control tower to utilize the main runway as a taxi route. The airport was shrouded in thick fog, reducing visibility drastically for both the pilots in the cockpits and the controllers in the tower. planecrashinfo