A year after a deadly collision in the sky above Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people, a new TPG/YouGov survey finds that even though a majority of U.S. air travelers think airline travel is generally safe, a whopping 74% admit to being not very, somewhat or very nervous when flying. Within that breakdown, 46% of flyers report being somewhat or very nervous when flying.
This is TPG's second consecutive year commissioning this survey. We began the polling in light of a series of incidents that had some questioning airline safety, including that fatal midair collision last January, a Delta Air Lines regional flight that flipped over on landing in Toronto last February and a door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight the year before. Those and other recent incidents understandably have some flyers nervous.
We wanted to know if Americans still feel that flying is safe.
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