[sebzim4500]

The last fatal accident in a commerical airliner in the US was in 2009.

We have to zoom out here, the FAA are not dropping the ball.

[jen20]

Regardless of whether flying is safer or not, the citation is incorrect: a passenger on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 died in 2018 following a contained engine failure.

[sebzim4500]

Fair point, although since I said "in a commercial airliner" and the passenger was partially ejected before dying I might be technically correct.

[jen20]

Ah, well by those criteria alone, PenAir 3296 in 2019 would probably win - a passenger died inside the plane after a runway excursion.

[lucianbr]

You think the crashes of the two 737 MAX being outside of the US was not luck, but determined at least in part by the FAA? Would you care to explain how you came to this conclusion, as I really, really don't see it...

[jajko]

His comments point to borderline racist statements from boeing early in the saga where they tried to blame this all on incompetence of the Ethiopian/other pilots, maintenance crew and so on.

To some folks human lives don't have the same value but it depends highly on passport, as long as stuff happens outside of their border all is fine (although in this case nothing is since this affects everybody everywhere). I wouldn't expect such a comment here in 2024 but here we are.