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In response to Gloria Charnes` Jan. 4 letter asking if it is safe to fly, I ask her and the public to look at the statistics: In 1985 airplane-related deaths were down compared with 1984, as explained by FAA Director Donald Engen. Granted, there were some regrettable ”spectacular” events splashed across the front pages and the airwaves. Doesn`t Ms. Charnes look at the ”big weekend” auto tallies where hundreds die in cars? Or the yearly totals of the hundreds of thousands hurt or killed on the highways? Let`s compare methods of transportation and maybe we would get our safety concerns oriented properly.
Does the public know that a ”near” midair is not by inches as when someone runs a stoplight but anything less than five miles in the air?
