Boeing 737 Maxes with loose bolts; on one plane a door plug blew out, leaving a hole in the side of the aircraft. Airbuses too with problems, one only remedied because a passenger noticed four missing screws on the plane’s wing.
Statistically we’re told that being in a plane is 19 times safer than being in a car. Is that still true?
Shawn Pruchnicki is a former airline pilot who's now a professor of aviation safety at Ohio State University .
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