Matt Molnar
2009-01-12, 02:19 PM
U.S. airlines fly 2 years without fatality (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/12/us.air.safety/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)
(CNN) -- For the first time since jet airliners took to the sky, U.S. carriers have gone two years without a single passenger fatality.
A single year without fatalities has occurred only four times since 1958, an analysis by the Air Transport Association found.
Thus, the two-year streak in 2007 and 2008 is all the more remarkable, considering that airlines ferried more than a billion passengers. [Full Article (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/12/us.air.safety/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)]
(CNN) -- For the first time since jet airliners took to the sky, U.S. carriers have gone two years without a single passenger fatality.
A single year without fatalities has occurred only four times since 1958, an analysis by the Air Transport Association found.
Thus, the two-year streak in 2007 and 2008 is all the more remarkable, considering that airlines ferried more than a billion passengers. [Full Article (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/01/12/us.air.safety/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)]