civilizational miracle that is the safety of commercial air traveling. not that long ago, airline travel was much more dangerous. before this weekend, there had not been a fatal commercial jetline crash in the united states since february 2009. it was less than 20 years ago we watched two crashes in the united states in just one year. 1996. and 340 people were killed. since then, the commercial airline industry, particularly in the united states, has undergone a safety revolution. on every given day in this country, nearly 50,000 flights pass through our national airspace. 50,000. so very few of them suffer any type of incident, it seems like a miracle. now, to be clear, air travel does have risks, particularly in smaller noncommercial planes. just yesterday, a small air taxi in alaska crashed killing ten people. from 2010 to 2012, 61 people died in air taxi accidents. during that same time period, there were zero deaths from commercial air accidents in the
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