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Are we still safe in the skies?

Sunday Morning

English - March 02, 2024 19:10 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Boeing 737 Maxes with loose bolts; on one plane a door plug blew out, leaving a hole in the side of the aircraft. Airbuses too with problems, one only remedied because a passenger noticed four missing screws on the plane's wing. Statistically we're told that being in a plane is 19 times safer than being in a car. Is that still true? Shawn Pruchnicki is a former airline pilot who's now a professor of aviation safety at Ohio State University .