Wasn't all transportation extremely accident-prone in 1927? When Lindbergh made his flight, commercial air travel was already 13 years old (not counting Zeppel

Wasn't all transportation extremely accident-prone in 1927? When Lindbergh made his flight, commercial air travel was already 13 years old (not counting Zeppelins) and already growing rapidly. US Airline passengers nearly tripled from 1928 to 1929, from 60,000 to 170,000. That wasn't just because of Lindbergh, it was mostly because of the Ford Tri-motor. All those passenger flights funded commercial airplane manufacturers to invest in new designs, and by the early 1930s we had far safer and more cost effective metal monoplane designs like the Boeing 247 and DC-2, and then the DC-3s. It was one of the great revolutions in transportation history. So what was so bad about it?