John Teichert: US air travel remains safe

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Despite incidents like the Washington DC crash, air travel in the US remains safe, with thorough investigations ensuring continued safety, former Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for the Air Force Retired Brigadier General John Teichert says.  #Planecrash #USA

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00:00The last deadly major air crash involving a commercial airliner in the United States,

00:06I believe it was in 2009. I mean that was more than five years ago and in that accident some

00:1250 people were killed. When you consider that three million people fly in and out of US airports

00:19every single day, it suggests that on the whole air travel in the United States is safer perhaps

00:26than it's ever been, doesn't it? Hamid is and part of the reason for that is that when we do

00:32have these accidents we are judicious about getting to the root cause, the causal factors

00:38and the findings and changing processes and procedures that this won't happen again. And I

00:45think that as you consider the trade-off between driving or flying, our air travel system is

00:50extremely safe, but when big events happen like this it is tragic, it shakes everybody's confidence

00:56in the system, which is why the investigators need to be extremely rigorous and quick in getting to

01:02the root causes to assure the public that they've resolved the situations or the problems that cause

01:07this disaster.

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