What the Japan and Alaska Airlines Incidents Tell Us about Airline Safety

I very much agree with Tufekci, the safety of air travel is a testament to the people who achieve it - it demonstrates their ability to build expensive, elaborate, and effective institutions and processes that are commensurate to the immense task they&#x27;re tasked with.<p>The Boeing Max failures may prove to be the beginning of the end - they&#x27;re the exact kind of failures that show the system is coming apart - these failures are institutional and political, as opposed to freakish corner cases of technology and physics.<p>Right now air travel safety seems to be teetering. And true to the indicator that it is, so are we.

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