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> If you want to consider safety only, you or I or the Russians could come up with the trivial (and only correct) solution, which is to ban air travel.

This would be a safety failure. Banning air travel is overwhelmingly likely to increase transport fatalities. It would decrease air travel fatalities, but would not represent an increase in safety.

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) supported the FAA's decision [to not require tickets for pax under 2 years old] based on current FAA and NHTSA studies that show a mandate could result in another 13 to 42 added family member fatalities over 10 years in highway accidents." - [0]

[0] - https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?conte...