Crashes into terminal buildings
You would have thought that, given the sheer number of movements worldwide, there would have been more occurrences where aircraft had crashed into terminal buildings.
Obviously one explanation is that terminals are perpendicular to runways, but there are many tight fields where the distance from runway to terminal in the event of loss of control is still only a few hundred yards, if that (LCY etc).
The only incident I can think of where airport buildings were hit was a t HKT a couple of years ago when a turboprop rammed the base of a control tower - iirc a pilot was killed but no other fatalities.
There have been other incidents where aircaft have departed from the runway but not gone near terminals - e.g. Denver CO 737, which iirc came close to the fire station, now that would have been unfortunate. And what would have happened at Madrid, had the Spanair MD 82 veered into a terminal building. Or is the chance of this actually happening statistically too remote?
It looks like the bigger risks in terminals are terrorist attacks or fire from within.