So many people tell me if it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lead on the news. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise when last week, the Aviation Safety Network reported that no one died on a commercial passenger jet in 2017 and the most of the world not only rushed right by this story but some also actually disputed its relevance. (https://news.aviation-safety.net/2017/12/30/preliminary-asn-data-show-2017-safest-year-aviation-history/)
At the Foundation, we had been tracking accident data all year and through discussions with our International Advisory Committee, we had already noticed the significant improvement year over year, knowing that this improvement is the work of many stakeholders and many separate improvements over decades. So I was dismayed by the path taken by many prominent news organizations and social media accou…
