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>and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009! Asiana flight 214 (San Francisco crash with the fake names announced by a major news outlet) wa
by froindt 9y ago
>and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009!
Asiana flight 214 (San Francisco crash with the fake names announced by a major news outlet) was in 2013.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
- alistairSH 9y ago<pedant>Asiana isn't an American airline</pedant> Either way, the main point still holds - the American airline industry, along with its foreign counterparts in Europe and Asian, do an amazing job keeping the flying public safe.
- mikeash 9y agoIt really is amazing that we can go years between fatalities. To put it in perspective, air travel in the US involves about 10% of the passenger-miles of road travel. If air travel had a similar fatality rate as road travel, then we'd see 3,000-4,000 fatalities per year from airliner crashes, in the US alone.
- froindt 9y agoSorry, I misread it as last airline crash in the US.