00:00The last deadly major air crash involving a commercial airliner in the United States,
00:06I believe it was in 2009. I mean that was more than five years ago and in that accident some
00:1250 people were killed. When you consider that three million people fly in and out of US airports
00:19every single day, it suggests that on the whole air travel in the United States is safer perhaps
00:26than it's ever been, doesn't it? Hamid is and part of the reason for that is that when we do
00:32have these accidents we are judicious about getting to the root cause, the causal factors
00:38and the findings and changing processes and procedures that this won't happen again. And I
00:45think that as you consider the trade-off between driving or flying, our air travel system is
00:50extremely safe, but when big events happen like this it is tragic, it shakes everybody's confidence
00:56in the system, which is why the investigators need to be extremely rigorous and quick in getting to
01:02the root causes to assure the public that they've resolved the situations or the problems that cause
01:07this disaster.
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