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That tells you something is wrong in the system, i.e. poor training, weak experience, bad management, pilots not understanding, lack of investment. those are the systemic issues that ultimately you seek. >> so should fliers, especially on a memorial day weekend like we have here in the united states this weekend, how concerned should the flying public be? >> not at all. come back to that statistic i said. 300,000th of 1% would be the number. you're talking about 135 million takeoff and landings in 2012. of that, only 4,300 would be regarded near misses. of that, a fraction, 40 of them, were wh...

Better? a lot more planes are flying all the time. >> right. and the interesting thing, of course, is whether or not it's actually getting worse or whether we're merely hearing more about them. the numbers involved are extremely small. and that, of course, is deceptive. you're talking if you look at the last data for 2012, 300,000th of 1% of flights had what we might describe as a near miss. the problem, of course, it's a very small number, but the consequences are so devastating. if you also factor in things such as better reporting, amnesty for air traffic controllers who do report, an entir...