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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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