The only perfectly safe airplane is one on the ground, with engines stopped, fuel tanks purged.
In 1946, when U.S. commercial airlines were busier than ever before, they compiled the best safety record in history: 1.24 passengers killed per 100 million passenger-miles flown on scheduled flights. But in the last four months, 74 men, women & children have died in U.S. airline crashes. Etched into the public's mind last week were pictures of crumpled wreckage and gobbeted bodies that were far more vivid than any statistics. In Congress, South Carolina's Representative L. Mendel Rivers cried: "There's something wrong with the...
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