The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the main trade group for the airlines, released a rather oxymoronic statement this week. IATA said that while accidents and fatalities were up, the risk of getting into a crash or accident was lower. Talk about seeing the good in the bad. “Accidents are rare in aviation,” IATA director general Willie Walsh said in a statement. “There were five fatal accidents among 32.2 million flights in 2022. That tells us that flying is among the safest activities in which a person can engage. But even though the risk of flying is exceptionally low, it is not risk-free. Careful analysis of the trends that are emerging even at these very high levels of safety is what will make flying even safer.”
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