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Business & Commercial Aviation 1995-01-01

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Don't Panic

Jan 01, 1995
The flying public was naturally a bit skittish over commuter airline safety after a week of breathless and largely uninformed TV commentary on the crash of an American Eagle ATR 72-200 in Indiana. So, I suppose it was only natural that the release of a set of commuter-safety recommendations from the NTSB and an ill-reasoned pronouncement from an industry watchdog group would generate a pre-Thanksgiving hysteria over commuter airline safety. Unfortunately, some of the public's truly unwarranted concern lingers today.