Safe to fly?

Maybe we ought to be checking some site besides the OHS to decide when, where and what airline to fly.

The Egyptian charter airline whose Boeing 737 crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people, has been banned from flying over Swiss airspace since October 2002 due to safety concerns.

"During an inspection we discovered that the airline was a danger to aviation security," said Celestine Perissinotto, a spokeswoman for the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation.

"If a company is forbidden (to fly over national airspace)... that means the problems are serious."

She declined to give further details.

...Perissinotto said less than 10 airlines were currently banned from Switzerland or earmarked for inspection.   article


Less than ten?!

At least you can check this link for major airliner safety ratings, calculated on the ratio of number of flights to number of fatal accidents.

Okay, there's my public service action for the month.

Back to political ranting.