Recently there was a report of five airlines having accidents in the air. Those five are Colgan Air, Turkish Airlines, Air France, Yemenia Airways and the most current one Caspian Airlines. With a total of 548 people dying from the three most recent crashes, is it still okay to use airplanes as a way to travel? Aviation safety expert John Wiley says “There is no reason to fear air travel in general, and no single airline or aircraft is particularly dangerous.”
But even with Wiley’s words it still does not calm my fear of something happening while in the air. More people are starting to rethink traveling by air due to the major increase in the cost just to go to another state, not even overseas. Shouldn’t all of this extra money the airlines are getting go towards helping prevent accidents like these to occur? I just hope that it does not take an extra 100 more lives for the airplane companies to realize they have a serious problem ahead. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/15/iran.plane.crash/index.html