Science of Success: How Self-Reporting Made Flying Safer

WSJ’s The Future of Everything

This year, several high profile incidents have kept flying in the limelight. Yet air travel is currently safer than ever. The biggest U.S. commercial airlines have now gone 15 years without a fatal crash. So, how did hurtling through the sky in a giant metal tube become this safe? WSJ columnist Ben Cohen speaks with former FAA and International Civil Aviation Organization executive William Voss about the voluntary self-reporting programs that made flying the safest form of travel and asks if the airline industry’s safety measures could provide a blueprint for regulation in other fields.

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Further reading:

Flying in America Has Actually Never Been Safer

Boeing Tells Airlines to Check 787 Cockpit Seats After Mishap on Latam Flight

Behind the Alaska Blowout: a Manufacturing Habit Boeing Can’t Break

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