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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Traveling involves risk, so travelers are potential customers of insurance companies. Flying is the safest mode of travel in terms of accidents, but how about germs travelers may be exposed to?
Insurancequotes.com conducted 18 tests across 6 surfaces from 3 major US airports and airline flights to find out how clean traveling really is. Each surface was swabbed 3 times at airports or on different US flights.
They sent their swabs to a laboratory to find the average number of viable bacteria and fungal cells per square inch, or colony-forming units... 
Airlines continue to cram more seats in their aircraft. They not only reduce legroom, but also seat width: from 18.5 inches (47 cm) a decade ago to about 17 inches (43 cm) now. The number of emergency exits remains unchanged, so the time needed to evacuate a plane must have increased.
Therefore, we already contacted the US Federal Aviation Administration (
The US Transportation Security Administration (
A Dutch reader of our website sent us his correspondence with 
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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