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The article also conveniently overlooks the vast number of other certifications that Aeroman has to uphold, as if somehow the likes of EASA can't be trusted to inspect aircraft maintenance facilities. I'm even more perplexed by the evidence-free assumption that "private contractors in the US" (a designation which includes an awful lot of divisions of household-name conglomerates) must somehow have worse hiring practices than airline-owned maintenance divisions. And the rather odd categorisation of Singapore as in the "developing world", which it isn't by any definition of "developed country" that permits the designation to be applied to countries populated predominantly by non-white people...

All the statistical evidence points to air travel being safer than at any point in history but.... scary anecdotes and foreigners