[DIRTYSECRET]

Big picture. Flying’s still the safest form of travel. The occasional crash doesn’t lower it. She can go public with her concerns and the usual suspects in congress and the media will be happy to run with it. The settlement is the cost of doing business.

Think Adam Schiff. He’ll find issues where there are none.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Big picture. Flying’s still the safest form of travel.

Depends on which metric you use.

Airlines like to use the per mile traveled metric. When you use a per trip metric, driving a car is safer.

[Rockingham]

Aviation is inherently dangerous. Like the sea, the sky seeks to kill those who challenge it. Inattention to aviation safety can kill passengers and kill an airline company.

Can you imagine an airline company ever admitting to passengers that they considered their possible deaths as not a tragedy to be strenuously avoided if at all possible but merely an insurable risk that was a cost of doing business? "Fly with Death's Head Airlines. We budget for your risk of death."