American aviation is nearing safety limits. Experts have been warning about this.
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After a deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport, experts say aviation safety concerns like runway incursions need urgent attention.
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“This constant drumbeat of ‘aviation is safe’ didn’t help anyone. It’s complacency.”
That’s what Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the Department of Transportation and a practicing aviation attorney, told me in a phone interview on Tuesday morning.
Schiavo herself was on her way to catch a flight in Chicago when we spoke, so she wasn’t saying that people should stop flying altogether in the wake of Sunday night’s tragic accident at LaGuardia Airport in New York. She was saying, however, that passengers and aviation regulators alike need to heed the warnings of that accident and the many incidents that preceded it.
As just the latest in what feels like an ongoing string of high-profile aviation tragedies in the last year or so, it’s a good moment to take a step back and look at how flying can be made even safer.
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