Melburnian1
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The Airline Ratings website featuring Steve Creedy and Geoffrey Thomas has some useful information re airline safety. Some on AFF don't like the latter. The former was extremely productive and diligent when he was aviation writer for 'The Australian.' I have never met either.
Anyone who's even a bit analytical knows that by and large, the aviation industry (and here I'm talking planes with a passenger capacity of say 19 or above) has a very good safety record.
However this website is concurrently running an article bemoaning the rise of social media in how 'every passenger' is a 'commentator' on air safety, with even the slightest incident broadcast to us all, while three other articles highlight how 2018 was a bad year for airline RPT passenger safety and how the families of the TAA Vickers Viscount crash of 50 years ago have apparently been abandoned.
In life, mostly one can't have it both ways. Individually the articles may all make arguable points but running them all together is just faintly hypocritical. I assume that some of the latter three articles will be highlighted on Twitter, Instagram or elsewhere on social media by Airline Ratings. Ironic!
Anyone who's even a bit analytical knows that by and large, the aviation industry (and here I'm talking planes with a passenger capacity of say 19 or above) has a very good safety record.
However this website is concurrently running an article bemoaning the rise of social media in how 'every passenger' is a 'commentator' on air safety, with even the slightest incident broadcast to us all, while three other articles highlight how 2018 was a bad year for airline RPT passenger safety and how the families of the TAA Vickers Viscount crash of 50 years ago have apparently been abandoned.
In life, mostly one can't have it both ways. Individually the articles may all make arguable points but running them all together is just faintly hypocritical. I assume that some of the latter three articles will be highlighted on Twitter, Instagram or elsewhere on social media by Airline Ratings. Ironic!
