Absence of Actual Airline Crashes Do Not
Indicate Absence of Safety Threats
Or of Frequent Near-Disasters

Just as in years ago, the threats to everyone in aviation, and the near disasters, were far more than simply the endless series of airline disasters. Today, the threats to the lives of everyone who flies, and the many near disasters, included, for instance, the following:

• Runway collisions. Some of the most spectacular and catastrophic airline disasters occurred on airport runways.
   
  • Tenerife is one example of two Boeing 747 collided head-on on the runway at Tenerife, Canary Islands, with over 583 people killed
     
  • The ground collision at the Los Angeles International Airport in January 1991, between a U.S. Air Boeing 737 and a Sky West commuter plane that killed 34 people.
     
  • The countless numbers of near-collisions that have occurred at airports, defying the odds up to this point. These odds should change at any time.
     
• Numerous instances of large airliners with hundreds of people on board nearly running out of fuel. This is due to the airline's practice of placing an inadequate supply of fuel on the aircraft. On international flights where an airliner running low on fuel cannot land at an airport, the consequences would be ditching in the ocean; or an aircraft on approach crashing into a city with catastrophic consequences.
   
• Numerous near-crashes.
  
• Further details and documentation in the books, Unfriendly Skies: 20th and 21st Centuries, and Blowback, 9/11, and Cover-Ups. And at www.unfriendlyskies.com.