Patrick Beeson says:

That’s an odd contrast to the NPR story reported Oct. 8 on the dramatic increase in airline safety.

Who’s right?

Andrew says:

Both. The NPR story concerns actual incidents, while NASA was looking at the near incidents that aren’t reported — things the pilots see that passengers may not.

Gnomic says:

Another instance of my government lying to me.

Andrew says:

Even more galling, as per usual with the Bush Administration, is that they don’t care how blatant their lies are:

NASA also cited pilot confidentiality as a reason, although no airlines were identified in the survey, nor were the identities of pilots, all of whom were promised anonymity.

Steve says:

Personally I’m a little amazed at how reliable those flying machines are, considering how many flight hours they get.

Here’s an idea. If they’re so worried about consumer confidence - and it’s a totally legitimate concern - they have a straightforward way of going about this. Take that report, and work very hard at fixing the problems. Present the report to the public, and show exactly what was done to fix problems. Any unsolved problems would probably be relatively minor since incidents are still rare (even if near-incidents aren’t). Open the remaining issues to public discussion.

This is the era of communication. Let’s communicate. And if they do a good job, they can charge us the airfare to come to the conference.

Randy says:

Because we all know the absolute greatest way to safety is to deny and suppress all negative information…

And shame on you Andrew. We all know that the best way to help the country is to shop and spend money - W told me so. Clearly you are a hater because you want people to know the facts which might lead to them not spending money. ;)

www.airfaresrockbottom.info » NASA: Commercial aviation unsafe says:

[...] Andrew put an intriguing blog post on NASA: Commercial aviation unsafe.Here’s a quick excerpt:An $8.5 million NASA study of aviation safety consisting of detailed interviews with thousands of pilots found that commercial air travel is so unsafe it is refusing to release the results. Doing so “could materially affect the public … [...]

Randy says:

In case you aren’t already keeping track at home, the post above this is trackback spam. I’ve started seeing a big upswing in this on the Blahg (almost no comments yet on RandomLi), and it looks like you’ve gotten hit, too. Just pointing it out in case you want to clean it up and delete it (and this comment, if need be).