Since the Jet Age began in the 1950s, air travel in the U.S. has never been safer. It's been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people, and there hasn't been a deadly crash of a plane with more than 10 seats since a Colgan Air flight bound for Buffalo went down in February 2009. It's a dramatic turnaround. From July 1994 to January 1997, an airliner crashed at least once every three months, killing a total of 805 people. "It was overwhelming," says Frank Tullo, a former vice-president for flight operations at Continental Airlines. "They were falling out of the sky."
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