Recent plane crashes spark anxiety. Flying is still safe

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

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Recent alarming close calls, near-collisions and fatal airline crashes have sparked worry in plane passengers. Transportation analyst Seth Kaplan explains that statistically, flying is no more dangerous than it has been in recent years. And, the U.S. rejected a UN resolution calling for Russia to immediately pull troops out of Ukraine this week. Ukrainian organizer Oleksandra Matviichuk talks about the three-year anniversary of the war. Then, Elon Musk said federal employees working remotely must return to their offices or be fired. Many have already been let go. Among them is a Fish and Wildlife Service worker, who joins us to share the economic costs of ending critical projects.

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0:00.0	There's been a lot of attention on loneliness lately.
0:03.9	16% of Americans report feeling lonely all or most of the time.
0:08.3	The former Surgeon General even declared a loneliness epidemic.
0:12.3	On It's Been a Minute, we're launching a new series called All the Lonely People, diving deep into how loneliness shows up in our lives and how our culture shapes it.
0:21.4	That's on the It's Been a Minute podcast on NPR.
0:24.2	Midway, I would say rather clearly, although we'll have to wait and see what the FAA says,
0:28.8	would be in what they categorize as a serious runway incursion.
0:33.9	Nobody wants to be on a plane when there's a runway incursion, serious or not.
0:39.5	But statistically, flying isn't any more dangerous now than in recent years.
0:53.2	It's Wednesday, February 26th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:58.8	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:02.7	Today on the show, whose interests will carry the day in American negotiations over the war in Ukraine.
1:09.8	In the last days, we heard a lot about natural minerals, about NATO,
1:15.6	about possible territorial accessions, but we don't hear about people.
1:20.3	It's not okay.
1:21.6	Also, the Trump administration's purge of the federal workforce
1:25.4	is leaving important projects in the lurch.
1:28.7	You're ramping up hiring for a project.
1:30.8	You're going to build a culvert somewhere at Alaska so that fish can pass through so they can spawn so their populations will grow.
1:37.9	And all of a sudden, boom, that money stopped.
1:39.9	That's coming up at about 15 minutes.
1:41.8	But first, it sure does seem like there have been a lot of problems with planes lately.
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