A string of plane crashes has left some air passengers uneasy about boarding their next plane. But aviation expert Scott Hamilton says that air travel today is safer than its ever been, due to the “experience and lessons learned from decades of accidents.”
A Delta Air Lines flight crashed and flipped over on landing at Toronto’s Pearson airport this week, with all 76 passengers and four crew members managing to escape alive. The incident follows the deaths of 67 people in a collision between an American Airlines flight and military helicopters in Washington, D.C. in January. Seventeen people in total also died when an air ambulance crashed in Philadelphia, and a commuter plane crash in Alaska.
Hamilton, an aviation consultant with decades of experience, spoke to The Current’s Matt Galloway about the crash in Toronto and what nervous fliers should consider. Here is part of their conversation.
It seems astonishing that this happens and everybody survives and that most of these people who are hospitalized have …