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US Airline Safety Record Best Ever

No fatal crashes for two years

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(Newser) – Airline safety has improved so much that the chances of dying in an air crash are now less than being elected president, according to a safety expert. For the first time since jet travel began, not a single person died in a crash of a US carrier for two years, when 1.5 billion passengers flew, reports USA Today.

"It's a new record," said an airline safety expert at MIT. "While it doesn't mean risk is non-existent, it certainly means they have done a fantastic job at keeping threats at bay."

The burned out wreckage of a Continental Airlines plane which crashed in Denver earlier this month. Despite this crash, it has been an unprecedented two years without a fatality on US carriers.
The burned out wreckage of a Continental Airlines plane which crashed in Denver earlier this month. Despite this crash, it has been an unprecedented two years without a fatality on US carriers.   (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
An American Airlines plane takes off from Dulles International Airport. There hasn't been a single fatality in a crash of a US carrier in two years, which is unprecedented since jet travel began.
An American Airlines plane takes off from Dulles International Airport. There hasn't been a single fatality in a crash of a US carrier in two years, which is unprecedented since jet travel began.   (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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It's more evidence of what has been the improving safety record that we've seen over the past several years.
- Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation

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