Deliberate acts are causing more airline deaths than crashes. Correspondent Michael Toscano reports: For the second year in a row, “An industry tally shows more airline deaths worldwide were due to deliberate acts in 2015 than to accidental air crashes.” Aviation data company Flightglobal reports only eight accidental airline crashes last year, accounting for 161 passenger and crew deaths, which is the fewest crashes and deaths since at least 1946. A German airliner was deliberately flown into a mountainside in the French Alps last March and a Russian airliner packed with tourists that exploded over Egypt. The death toll for those two deliberate incidents was 374. In 2014, the toll from a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared and another that was shot down over Ukraine also exceeded accident deaths that year.
Deliberate acts are causing more airline deaths than crashes
Jan 5, 2016 | 7:45 AM

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