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What’s the deal with all these airplane crashes?

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Four commercial jet crashes have occurred in the last 10 weeks : Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on Christmas Day ; Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 on December 29th .

American Airlines Flight 5342 on January 29th ; Delta Connection Flight 4819 on February 17th .

FAA announced that it was laying off around 400 employees starting on Valentine’s Day , just two weeks after mid-air collision above Ronald Reagan National Airport .

In 2021 , there were seven fatal crashes around the world, bumping up the risk profile to 1 in 3.5 million flights.

In spite of all the progress we’ve made, the aviation safety system remains brittle.

The only way to reduce risk to zero is to ground every airplane in the world.

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