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| Above, an airliner takes off from LAX. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
For some reason, when I first read this story, my mind immediately flashed back to the movie Airplane! (1980) where a parody of 60 Minutes' "Point/Counterpoint" had the liberal and conservative debaters discuss the possible crash of the jet.
The "conservative" said:
They knew what they were getting into [or something like that]. I say, let it crash!
This should be great news for people who are deathly afraid to fly in a commercial jet.
The Independent (U.K.) reported:
In a year when more people flew to more places than ever, 2017 was the safest on record for airline passengers.
The Dutch-based aviation consultancy, To70, has released its Civil Aviation Safety Review for 2017. It reports only two fatal accidents, both involving small turbo-prop aircraft, with a total of 13 lives lost.
No jets crashed in passenger service anywhere in the world.
To read more, go here.
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