The State of Air Travel
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
So far this year, there have been 12 major plane crashes, according to airsafe.com, and there have been a number of small plane accidents in the New York area. We’ll take a look at the safety of air travel, air traffic control problems, and what the FAA is doing to make flying safer. We're joined by Bill Waldock, Professor of Safety Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Linda Marsa, contributing editor of Discover Magazine, who wrote about the state of air traffic control in the article "A Wing and a Prayer," in the September issue of Discover magazine.
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Comments [4]
Like the CIA, the FAA needs to be revamped, remember 9/11? with proper attention to equipment and protocol [i.e. in air security], WTC would still be standing and a war in Afganistan would have been avoided. Think of the lives and money that could have been saved.
All aiports charges passengers a service fee. Someone should monitor how they mange them without addressing the most important safety issues in hand.
Why should there be different standards for commuter and larger airlines? It makes no sense.
I wonder how much of this problem is the legacy of R.Reagan's wholesale firing of the Air Traffic Controllers in the 1980's instead of negotiating in good faith for the benefit of the public rather than the stockholders and owners of the airlines. How many other problems are we having in the society and economy to deal with today that have the same genesis?
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