Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
There was a fairly fine line between "crash" and fatalities in the Peru crash. On this occasion everybody got out, but it could have ended very differently.
Air Canada in SFO was also way too close. Had they pulled up a few seconds later, and the Headline of this post would be "deadliest year in American aviation since..."
So while aviation has become safer, we also had a very lucky year.