Jan 24 1976
From The Space Library
The National Transportation Safety Board reported that U.S. commercial airlines had the best safety record in 1975 since 1957, with only 42 accidents and a total of 124 deaths, 112 of those in the major air disaster of the year: the crash of an Eastern Airlines flight short of the runway at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on 24 June 1975. The fatality rate-statistically 0.001 per million air miles flown-was especially encouraging as it came after 467 persons had been killed a year earlier in commercial aviation accidents. John H. Reed, acting chairman of the safety board, commented that it was "as difficult to explain a good year as it is a bad one . . . we'd like to feel that all the effort toward safety is a contributing factor." (W Post, 25 Jan 76, A3)
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