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...government data, 95.7% of the passengers involved in airplane crashes categorized as accidents actually survive. Then, if you look at the most serious plane crashes, that's a smaller number; the survival rate in the most serious kinds of accidents is 76.6%. So the point there is, when the NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] analyzed all the airplane accidents between 1983 and 2000, 53,000 people were involved in those accidents, and 51,000 survived. That's an incredibly high survival rate...
...regularly told the NTSB that it couldn't have anything on its wish list of safety measures because of cost considerations. It told the same thing to the Inspector General, Congress and the White House. It reassured the public with the mantra "Accidents are not happening; planes are not falling...
...NTSB was especially keen to have the boxes installed on Boeing 737s. Investigations of two accidents involving B-737s--one outside Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1991 and the other in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1994--have been seriously hampered by the lack of this information. Instead of pressing the airlines to find an economical way to install new black boxes and instead of sending its own investigators to challenge the airlines' assessment of the cost, the FAA simply embraced the carriers' argument that the project would be too pricey...
...industry begun the implementation of this recommendation in March 1995," when the NTSB originally made the request, said NTSB chairman Jim Hall at the end of the following month, "most Boeing 737s would have been retrofitted with an acceptable, short-term, improved recording capability by this time. The lack of FAA action to date is unacceptable...
...issued 10 reports, all of them critical, on the FAA's inspection system--of aircraft operators, parts manufacturers, repair stations, designated mechanic examiners. Every investigation or audit was a battle, accomplished only after crafting strategies to outwit the FAA. My office made 70 recommendations to intensify FAA inspections. The NTSB weighed in too, pointing out that a 1988 crash that killed 12 people might not have happened if the FAA had been more meticulous in inspecting the airline and its pilots. Unfortunately, slipshod review of aircraft is the norm, not the exception...