Goodyear said recently that it had received reports of 15 deaths in crashes attributed to the tires.
I wonder what the relatives of those killed in several major crashes attributed to ATC errors in the past two decades would have to say about endangering safety.
Traffic crashes attributed to alcohol and/or drugs decreased nearly 2.6percentto— to 4,324 in 2017 from 4,438 in 2016, according to the annual "How Safe are Our Roads?" report.
Researchers at Berkeley evaluated 1.4 million fatal crashes attributed to weather conditions from 1975 to 2000.
There have actually been no fatal crashes attributed to volcanic ash, but there have been some very close calls.
The level of fatal general aviation crashes attributed to alcohol impairment has decreased from 30% of pilots with a BAC ≥0.04% in the early 1960s to 8% in the 1990s [ 9].
That crash was attributed to pilot error.
It rammed a dock on Staten Island last month; that crash was attributed to a mechanical failure.
Until the accident, its primary blemish was a series of crash landings attributed to problems with landing gear.
The crash was attributed to a missing tail fin that was likely structurally weakened because of frequent landings and takeoffs.
