So many excuses being thrown around, but the bottom line here is that if a healthy airliner on a sunny day, with 11k of runway crashes, something needs to be done. A quarter billion dollars and 300 lives were at stake.
Really? Well, that's debatable. From Robert Reich today:
"transportation analysts at MIT put the odds of death from air travel at two-tenths of 1 percent per 1 million departures, which they say makes flying safer than any other form of transportation, including escalators."
I say we tackle escalators first. Then cars. Then trains.