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- Despite the recent increase in aviation accidents, experts are still safe for US commercial air trips.
- When analyzing accident data, it is important to distinguish between commercial flights and individuals or general aviation.
- Aviation safety is a continuous improvement process with a powerful culture of reporting and learning from mistakes.
After two famous commercial plane collisions in US Airlines this year, travelers were still wondering if the flight was safe.
Statistically, the statistics itself can be a bit confused. In view of the number of National Transportation Safety Board, 67 deaths will appear in this year’s commercial plane accident. It rises significantly after death last year and is very consistent with the 10 -year trend, when commercial aviation deaths are generally measured in a single number.
However, it is important to remember that flight is safe and there is a context for the number of accidents recorded by aviation experts.
BOEING AVIATION and AEROSPACE SAFETY’s BOEING Center and Aerospace SafeTy, the vice president of EMBRY-RIDLE Aeronautical University, said, It was a very rare event. “I’ve been flying at the coast guard for 12 years, and we’ve spent a year without happening, and next year, we will be infinite.”
Until this year, six aircraft carriers accidents occurred in the National Transportation Safety Board. However, it is not a death -related death to six people, and the number does not contain small private aircraft, which usually occupies the highest part of the entire aircraft case every year.
All aviation events are different
Airplane accidents are virtually not caused by a single factor, and it is difficult to compare the two events, so it is not always helpful to look at the total number of accidents every year.
“This is, of course, a headline problem. Considering the exposure of the incident on the plane, it is not surprising that there will be some concerns if it is not alert about them. ”Robert W. Mann Jr., the former president of RW Mann and Co., Ltd., a former airline executive and current independent airline consulting, told USA Today. “Historically and today, the accidents are dramatically different by the flight category.”
Aging data on airplane accidents often include commercial flights traveled by individuals, charges, general aviation and most people. Therefore, it is important not to take too much view to achieve a true understanding of the dangers related to flight.
Kiernan said, “If you are looking at the accident rate and trends, I want to see the interests that are interested. “I’m a plane owner and it’s a lot different from the person who goes out to get on the plane because he’s a plane on JFK on Saturday afternoon. The difference in educational requirements for maintenance requirements. ”
Data packaging
The mid -air conflict with the Potomac River in January has been the first deadly plane conflict of US airliner since 2009, but it does not mean that there are no commercial aviation deaths for almost 16 years in the United States.
In 2013, the Asiana Airlines plane in Seoul was short of San Francisco’s runway and three people died.
In 2018, the Southwest Airlines flight caused an explosive reduction in the room that damaged the fuselage due to engine malfunction and partially missed one passenger, Jennifer Riordan. She died as a result of injury.
Other deadly thinking occurred in the middle of a small aircraft operated by a comfortable rules, which are different from controlling the planned commercial flights, including commercial flights related to the most famous events this year.
Nevertheless, experts say it is too early to know what’s happening so far in 2025 airlines.
“Are they more than a wider problem? I’m not sure yet. KIERNANA added that this is not a perfect system, but the safety net of Aviation is powerful.
How to fly safe
As with the method of no single cause in the air case, the industry’s strong safety record does not depend on a single factor.
“Airlines has evolved more and more than 35 years of calling us a legitimate culture. Responsibility is responsible, but it is not a blame, shame, removal and replacement. Transparency, trust, continuous learning. All of this has established a culture in Aviation, a successful safety culture that people report freely if they make mistakes. ” “I am not accused of mistake when I do my best. You are responsible for your actions, but the error is what the system can be modified. It is non -intellectual and absolutely important. It’s a big factor. ”
As we can see in the graph below this year, there are only one fatal thinking related to US aircraft that have risen from zero over the past two years.
She said that the overall posture of the industry, which is ready to report and learn from the accident, is important for maintaining safety and continuously safer.
“We are very powerful and have a culture as an industry. We have a very strict process in terms of identification of risks and have a technique that helps to alleviate it, ”KIERNANA said. Mann agreed that self -reflection in the industry is one of the important aspects of safety records.
“What happened and what can we learn? The only way to lower these rates is to eliminate the factors that can contribute to the event, ”he said. “We do not maintain safety without all individual participation. It is a safety culture that is published and maintained by related operators. ”
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How aviation safety can continue to improve
Mann and Kiarnan agreed that Flying Flying is very safe, but it is a project that is never over.
“It’s different from what you have to do. It is a aspect of continuous improvement, but the existence of this concentration is the reason for continuous improvement is the reason why we ride tomorrow by plane tomorrow, ”KIERNANA said.
“It’s a very safe system and can always be safer. The goal is always zero, but achieving zero is constantly increasing the amount of activity, while achieving Zero is an important goal. ”Mann added.
In the meantime, KIERNANA said that the process of knowledge and seat back safety cards, such as knowing the location of the emergency exit, is a force for neurologists.
“I say people don’t worry about flying, but it doesn’t mean that you are not really anxious and not helping to alleviate that anxiety,” she said. “Please empower you with knowledge. This will help people get a slightly closer risk to the objectively low risk of actually facing people. ”
Contribution: Jennifer Boresen, USA Today
Zach Wichter is a travel journalist and writes a cruise altitude column of USA Today. He is based in New York and can be contacted by zwichter@usatoday.com.
