[Concentrate]

It depends on the airline. It's safe to fly one that keeps and maintains modern fleets. United, American, and many others are safe bets. You are mch more likely to get into a deadly car crash than a commercial airliner crash.

Think about it; there are planes taking off and landing EVERY 2/3 minutes in every major city in the world every day of the year. The chances of you getting on a flight that is going to crash is truely infinitesmal.

[Central Scrutiniser]

All the american airlines are safe, however, United and American are not exactly the leaders in safety. American had the A300 lose a tail at JFK, they had a MD80 crash in Little Rock, and they ran a 757 directly into a mountainside in Columbia, all in the last 5 years. United had the crash landing of the DC-10 in Souix City, the cargo door pop on a 747-200 on the way to Hawaii, and they ran a 737-300 head on into the ground outside of Colorado Springs. US Airways had 2 crashes at LaGuardia and one at LAX in the last few years.

I'll take Southwest, America West, Frontier, Jet Blue, and ATA, no fatalities.....