Science of Success: How Self-Reporting Made Flying Safer

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This year, several high profile incidents have kept flying in the limelight. Yet air travel is currently safer than ever. The biggest U.S. commercial airlines have now gone 15 years without a fatal crash. So, how did hurtling through the sky in a giant metal tube become this safe? WSJ columnist Ben Cohen speaks with former FAA and International Civil Aviation Organization executive William Voss about the voluntary self-reporting programs that made flying the safest form of travel and asks if the airline industry’s safety measures could provide a blueprint for regulation in other fields. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Further reading: Flying in America Has Actually Never Been Safer Boeing Tells Airlines to Check 787 Cockpit Seats After Mishap on Latam Flight Behind the Alaska Blowout: a Manufacturing Habit Boeing Can’t Break Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.8	Hi Future of Everything listeners.
0:19.4	I'm Ben Cohen and I write the Science of Success
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0:35.0	In January, an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing
0:40.0	when a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 max 9 at 16,000 feet and left a hole in the side of the plane.
0:48.2	This month the Chile-based Latam Airlines experienced a mid-air incident that caused a plane to lurch downward,
0:55.0	leaving at least 50 people injured.
0:57.0	But here's the surprising thing about flying.
0:59.0	It's actually pretty safe.
1:01.0	Airlines produce fewer deaths per mile than cars, ferries, trains,
1:06.1	subways, or buses. The chances of dying in a plane crash are roughly the same
1:11.0	as getting struck by lightning while listening to this
1:13.8	podcast. In fact, flying is close to the safest it has ever been. The biggest
1:21.6	U.S. commercial airlines have now gone 15 years without a fatal
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