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President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to report some good news concerning the commercial aviation industry. Namely, that there wasn't a single commercial aviation-related death in 2017.
Trump's announcement, however, has come under scrutiny from the media and Twitter users alike — but not because it makes a dubious claim. Rather, he's being criticized by those who felt he took credit for the statistic.
Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
The report to which Trump was likely referring was conducted by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN), a Dutch affiliate of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, The Wall Street Journal said. According to their statistics, not only were there no airline passenger fatalities recorded among U.S.-based carriers, but anywhere in the world. As a result, the ASN ultimately declared 2017 "the safest year in aviation history."
[...] Despite the good news, the ASN did report on 10 fatal airline accidents that occurred in 2017, but the Wall Street Journal explained that half of those involved cargo planes and the other half propeller-powered aircraft.
Trump's tweet, then, is factually accurate, though critics argue that it isn't due to any of his "strict" policies. The Atlantic, for example, argued that the statistic detailed in the report refers to the global fatalities, and that the U.S. hasn't seen a commercial aviation fatality since 2009, or long before he took office.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Friday January 05 2018, @07:01AM (4 children)
bytram! You passed on this shit? You could have approved of any number of aristarchus submissions that where more legit than this, which really shows how deplorable this article is. You know that realDonaldTrump posts are not really Donald Trump posts, don't you? You know they are meant to be mocked and scorned? But this one is just beyond all that right at the beginning! If this I what SoylentNews is coming to, I fear for our future. Not only are eds banned from accepting any of the rather fine and witty submissions from aristarchus, just because they are from aristarchus, but they are reduced to accepting click-bait trill like this? I think, I, will just, go, lie down, now. Sniff.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:07AM
I still think the realDonaldTrump posts are pretty cool though. #MAGA e'rryday
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @08:53PM
I dunno, a lame tweet by the president is pretty news worthy!! Oh right, its vaguely pro-Trump, TO THE FRONT PAGE!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @09:48PM (1 child)
hey man
i believe you heard a woosh
the reason this article was posted -- wasn't in celebration of the actual claim.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 06 2018, @07:45AM
This is why TRump Voters always run over motorcycle riders, especially the alt-right of the post WWII type motorcycle ryders, with their bitches on the back, cause Trump voters are just assholes, not real conservatives, and especially not alt-transportation conservatives, like th Bikers that Charlie Manson and Dick Ryan planned on winning the Race war after social security and Medicare are defunded. Congressman Ryan, Paul, Ron, or Rand, (ayn rand, Rooskie) Paul, enemies of America, and motorcycle runner-overers. I am voting Green from now on. Or at least Democrat. Libertarians have soiled themselves with tack cuts for the rich and running over motorcycle riders.