Are Airplanes Safe? By: Lukas E-mail: lumiqu@hotmail.com Are Airplanes Safe? TWA Flight 800, EgyptAir Flight 990, and Alaska Air Flight 461 and countless other flight numbers from the past decade all have one major thing in common with each other. All three are commercial airline flights that have gone down with no survivors, and all of these flights have happened in the past five years. All three of these mentioned accidents got extensive publicity in the …
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…than any other transportation, and I see them as being the safest form of transportation also. Everyone can think what he or she wants to think, but the media has given the airline industry a bad reputation. More people die on highways each year than on all other forms of transportation combined, this fact should alone should be enough evidence to convince people that airplanes really are the quickest, easiest, and safest way to travel.