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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdiot Trump just took credit for the safety of commercial aviation in 2017
Link to tweet
rzemanfl
(29,583 posts)This is not all that unusual.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-last-7-years-you-were-more-likely-to-be-run-over-by-a-car-than-to-die-in-an-airline-crash/#6d725664428a
He will take credit for anything.
teach1st
(5,937 posts)Washington Post, 6/29/17
Trump endorsed with great fanfare this month a House plan to spin off air traffic controllers and close to 20,000 other workers into a nonprofit private corporation. Flanked by several former secretaries of transportation at a White House ceremony, Trump said: The previous administration spent over $7 billion trying to upgrade the system and totally failed. Honestly, they didnt know what the hell they were doing, a total waste of money.
But an increasingly independent Senate, emboldened by Trumps legislative failures, opted to disregard the White House push to privatize the controllers and those working on modernizing the aviation system.
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I'd love to see him fly middle seat in coach on an airline like Spirit
underpants
(183,021 posts)The Aviation Safety Network also reported there were no commercial passenger jet deaths in 2017, but 10 fatal airliner accidents resulting in 44 fatalities onboard and 35 persons on the ground, including cargo planes and commercial passenger turbo prop aircraft.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1EQ17L
Orrex
(63,275 posts)dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Ohiogal
(32,189 posts)spanone
(135,933 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)A 50/50 proposition...
VMA131Marine
(4,159 posts)We've never left one up there!
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Only plane that matters is the one a person is on and planes come down in one of two ways.
VMA131Marine
(4,159 posts)you have also gotten off it alive (even if you were on the one that landed in the Hudson).
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)And if there had been a crash he would have blamed it on the Clintons or Pres. Obama.