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What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wtb-better-drugs dept.

rabble writes "According to a report out of Washington, NASA wants to avoid telling you about how unsafe you are when you fly. According to the article, when an $8.5M safety study of about 24,000 pilots indicated an alarming number of near collisions and runway incidents, NASA refused to release the results. The article quotes one congressman as saying 'There is a faint odor about it all.' A friend of mine who is a general aviation pilot responded to the article by saying 'It's scary but no surprise to those of us who fly.'"

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  1. That Study Can't Be Right by FireIron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It disagrees with my preconceived beliefs, so it must be fraudulent and biased.

  2. Hmmm by eniac42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeh like I totally.. Whoa! What the heck was that!?

    I personally think its a metric/imperial problem..

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    "A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it." - Churchill
  3. Re:This really that bad? by scratchpaper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're missing the point, here. "revealing the findings could damage the public's confidence in airlines and affect airline profits"

    That says it all...they're more concerned with profits than people. I, for one, am not an ostrich, and I don't feel safer by sticking my head in the sand and just ignoring the facts.