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How scared should you be about an engine failure?
Tom Bunn
Now, we have gone for 19 years without a crash of a major US airline.
If the Denver 777 incident has you worried about engine failure, consider this. I joined Pan Am in 1965. In those early days of jet aviation, there was at least one crash every year in the US. In fact, Pan Am had a crash almost every year. You may remember the Pan Am slogan: “Pan Am, the world’s most experienced airline.” Each time we crashed the inside joke was, “Pan Am, the world’s most experienced airline, reports another experience.” But in the late 1970s, something remarkable happened. An entire year passed without a crash in the US. I thought, “Wow. This is amazing. A whole year with no crashes.”
Using a technology that streams data from an airplane via satellites, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now monitoring every Boeing 737 MAX on every flight worldwide to check on the performance of the MAX fleet as the jet returns to service.
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