Nobody Died In A Commercial Passenger Jet In 2017, But Not Because Of Trump
President Trump appeared to link his administration’s regulations and policies to a study that said 2017 was aviation’s safest year ever.
Despite all the exploding hoverboards, smoking laptop batteries, and inescapable in-flight performances, a new report finds that 2017 was the safest year ever for commercial air travel. There were no passenger jet crashes anywhere in the world, according to separate reports by Dutch consultancy To70, and The Aviation Safety Network found, compared to 2016, there were 71 civil aviation accidents, six of which were fatal. However, as the BBC notes, their report only includes large passenger jets, not smaller passenger planes, so those crashes were not included in the tally.