From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Wayne Hines"  wrote in message   
   news:xCdcv.120083$1w1.1103@fx03.iad...   
   > On Mon, 12 May 2014 19:44:30 -0400, Sancho Panza wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 5/12/2014 12:03 PM, Wayne Hines wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 12 May 2014 09:34:31 -0400, conklin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> Airline accidents are approached quite differently and last year no   
   >>>> one died in domestic airline accidents.   
   >>>   
   >>> That depends on your definition of "domestic airline accidents", or   
   >>> have you forgotten about the three people who died when that 777   
   >>> crashed on landing at San Francisco.   
   >>   
   >> First, Asiana is not a domestic airline. Second: "One passenger was   
   >> killed and 182 were hurt. A second passenger also died, but it is   
   >> possible that she survived the crash and was run over by a fire truck."   
   >   
   > George stated no one died in domestic airline accidents not accidents   
   > involving domestic airlines.   
   >   
   > Three people died as a result of the crash: two died at the scene and one   
   > died in hospital. Although one of the victims who died at the scene may   
   > have been killed by a fire truck, her death was a result of the crash.   
   >   
   > gwh   
   >   
   > --   
   > Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.   
   >   
      
   Well, I was mostly thinking of the years up to 2012 as   
   follows:---------------------   
      
    It will be four years on Tuesday since the last fatal crash in the United   
   States, a record unmatched since propeller planes gave way to the jet age   
   more than half a century ago. Globally, last year was the safest since 1945,   
   with 23 deadly accidents and 475 fatalities, according to the Aviation   
   Safety Network, an accident researcher. That was less than half the 1,147   
   deaths, in 42 crashes, in 2000.   
      
   In the last five years, the death risk for passengers in the United States   
   has been one in 45 million flights, according to Arnold Barnett, a professor   
   of statistics at M.I.T. In other words, flying has become so reliable that a   
   traveler could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in   
   a fatal crash, he said.   
      
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   Small planes do crash fairly often.  But our domestic airline fleet?  That   
   Malaysian flight which disappeared will go down in history as a "one of a   
   kind" issue.  And there will be actions taken, such as starting a system to   
   track such long-distance flights in real time.   
      
   As for actions taken when oil trains derail?  They will arrest the engineer   
   and that will be the end of that.  No improvements, just comments that here   
   that comments should not be made and nothing can or should be done just   
   because Wayne says so.   
      
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