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Despite the unusual number of mishaps in 1985, air travel remains comparatively safe. The chances of perishing in an air accident last year were 1 in 600,000. That was up sharply from 1 in 3.7 million n 1984, but still compares favorably with other forms of travel. On a mile-for-mile basis, Americans are nearly 100 times as likely to die in car accidents as in plane crashes. Secor Browne, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and now a Washington consultant, calls aviation easily "the safest mode of transportation." He adds, "If you're afraid...
Safety experts are also looking closely at airports. Pilots consider U.S. airports to be safe overall because local authorities have the money to install proper lighting and landing and navigation aids. Problems are greater at fields in the less developed nations of Africa and South America, which often cannot afford vital equipment. Nonetheless, flyers have raised objections to practices at some U.S. locations. The Airline Pilots Association has asked Los Angeles officials to stop allowing planes to take off with the wind, a practice the group considers dangerous. It argues that the procedure may make it harder for the aircraft...
...airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation in our country is very good, and in some ways excellent. But safety weaknesses in civil aviation do exist. They reflect the fallibility of individual men and women." To be sure, what is already an extraordinarily safe system can, and should, be made even safer. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Jerry Hannifin/Washington
Richardson's women had some trouble keeping matters carefree and cool. "They started out thinking they were going to be safe," she says. "Then they got caught, and they ended up caring about him." Richardson found that this happened even to veteran Other Women on their third or fourth affair. The single woman who falls in love with a married man often creates a private culture of shared jokes, "month-iversaries," and a scrapbook or photo album that takes on a "semi-sacred" character by affirming a relationship that cannot be made public...
...road directions to the headquarters of the Loretta Lynn International Fan Club were the sort the skeptical traveler longs for: clear, fail-safe. East out of Denver to Limon. south out of Limon to Wild Horse, left on Road 9 and right on Road Y. Road Y, explained Loudilla Johnson, co-president of the club along with her sisters Loretta and Kay, "doesn't go anywhere but here...