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I am not aware of any data that supports the claim that there are more incidents in recent history. The safest years were, of course, the COVID-19 shutdown years, when air-travel was greatly reduced. But besides that the last couple of years has been overall safer than the years before COVID-19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...

The 2025 crash near DCA, of course, absolutely spiked the number of recent commercial aviation deaths, but we haven't had any other aviation tragedies of that magnitude in more than a decade.

This can be a preventable tragedy without there needing to be a conspiracy behind it.

parent naberhausj 7 months ago

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