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There's likely no media coverage of the anniversary because only including major airlines is a very arbitrary cutting off point. The NTSB lists five major pass
by nikcub 10y ago
There's likely no media coverage of the anniversary because only including major airlines is a very arbitrary cutting off point.
The NTSB lists five major passenger air accidents since 2001:
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/paxfatal.aspx http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/paxfatal.aspx
No agency breaks out "major" airlines from "regional" for the purpose of regulation or statistics, nor does any other nation. It is purely self-serving.
What makes this post weirder is while cutting out regional airlines from the statistics, the causes he attributes with improving safety for the majors are the same things that regional airlines have also been doing.
- zardeh 10y agoOf those 5, 4 occurred in propeller craft. I think that it is relevant to include that kind of difference. Regional airlines and major airlines do work differently.
- erroneousfunk 10y agoHe does mention that in the post, and, yes, I think the author would also agree that it's self-serving. However, I would also argue that this is a symbolic milestone of the increased safety of US commercial flights, and an interesting thing to reflect on. I wouldn't take it too literally as any sort of real statistical measure, but it's certainly worthy of a blog post.