In 2017 there were worldwide 10 fatal airliner accidents, 5 involving cargo flights and 5 passenger flights. This makes 2017 the safest year ever for commercial aviation, according to the Aviation Safety Network (
ASN).
Both the number of airliner accidents and the number of fatalities were extremely low: 44 occupant fatalities and 35 persons on the ground. In 2016, ASN recorded 16 accidents and 303 lives lost.
Given the worldwide air traffic of about 36,800,000 flights, the accident rate in 2017 was 1 fatal passenger flight accident per 7,360,000 flights. This...
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A Dutch reader of our website sent us his correspondence with Air Canada about check-in problems. When he tries to check in for his flight the system does not accept his name. Like many Dutch names his last name consists of 3 words with spaces in between.
Thus, he cannot check in under his legal name. Therefore, he tries to do it under an illegal name by leaving out the spaces between the 3 words forming his last name. To his surprise the system accepts the illegal name that is... 
Time and again Donald Trump proves that his intellectual ability makes him mentally unfit for the job of president of the USA. He believes that twittering is the best way to run a country. Small wonder that so far he could sign only one (1) bill into law: the tax reform bill. This makes him the most unproductive US president in modern history.
It is sad and shocking that the tax reform law will benefit Trump and other rich people at the expense of social expenditure for low income brackets. In addition, it... 
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Two brothers – both US citizens - with almost identical names have tickets for separate flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo on December 26, 2017. One has a ticket on a 
According to the International Air Transport Association (
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