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> "Since 2010 we’ve had one aviation fatality" in the United States That doesn't sound right to me at all. - In 2014, 2 people were killed when a helicopter c
by ken 8y ago
> "Since 2010 we’ve had one aviation fatality" in the United States
That doesn't sound right to me at all.
- In 2014, 2 people were killed when a helicopter crashed in downtown Seattle. According to [1], that wasn't even the only news aircraft fatality in the USA in the past 5 years.
- UPS Airlines Flight 1354 (2013) killed 2 people, so we've had more than one commercial airplane fatality this decade, too.
- I assume they're ignoring the Q400 incident (really in no way the FAA's fault), and my first guess was that they mean "no passenger fatalities on a commercial jet in the US", which could then be referring to Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 (2018) -- but Asiana Airlines Flight 214 (2013) had 3 fatalities.
So I'm really not sure what they mean by this claim. Any way I slice it, there's definitely been more than one.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aircraft_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aircraft_accident...