Passenger Killed On Southwest Flight Is the First U.S. Commercial Airline Fatality In 9 Years
The passenger death marks the first fatality on a U.S. airline in nine years, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Robert Sumwalt said at a news conference Tuesday. The last fatal U.S. airline crash was on Feb. 12, 2009, when crashed while approaching Buffalo, New York, according to the NTSB. Fifty people died in the crash, including 45 passengers, two pilots, two flight attendants and one person who was on the ground. Now, U.S. airlines are facing the first fatality in nearly a decade. Shrapnel from the apparently blown out ...
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