Great News For A Change!

It’s on the front page of USA Today in big letters above an article that runs above and below the fold—“Airlines record safest 2 years.†  No one was killed in the crash of a U.S.A. airline domestic flight in 2007 or 2008. Let all the world be joyful, and let’s shout it from the rooftops.   This is major news. Never in history has it happened before. We have had four years with only one fatality each since 1958, but never two years in a row. We carried 1.5 billion passengers during '07 and '08, and a billion is still a large number even if politicians today do talk in much bigger numbers.   If USA Today has it correct, there was only one major accident during those two years, and that was last month’s Denver crash. Even that was good news, as all pax and crew were evacuated without a single fatality.   While we’re bragging, let’s remember that business aviation keeps a safety record that is comparable to the airlines, according to NBAA.   Air travel is now the safest means of transportation in the history of the world, and it just got better. That didn’t just happen, of course. The guvmint, airlines, and airports have been working like dogs trying to make it safer. They succeeded.   Spread the word.   We’d love to post your comments. Please click the tab at the top.