NST Leader: Air travel still safe despite tragedies

[New Straits Times] - 12/31/2024

WAR, genocide, coup, murder, assassination, mass shooting and terrorism: about the only nerve-wracking headline news that can displace these depravities are air disasters. Statistically, the odds assure us that commercial air travel, despite the latest horrors, is by far the safest long-distance (…)



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