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Trump Tweets 'Good News' About Death-Free Year in Commercial Aviation Industry

posted by martyb on Friday January 05 2018, @05:54AM   
from the taking-credit dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

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.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/01/02/trump-tweets-good-news-about-death-free-year-in-commercial-aviation-industry.html

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• Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Arik on Friday January 05 2018, @07:47AM (4 children)

  by Arik (4543) on Friday January 05 2018, @07:47AM (#618258) Journal

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  Wall Street Journal

  Fox news"

  That's spelled eff-eigh-you-ecks. Faux.

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• Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:20PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:20PM (#618452)

  You used proportional text!

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  • Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @07:47PM (#618480)

    Should we send somebody to check on him? Maybe his account's been compromised.

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    • Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie (Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 05 2018, @08:53PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday January 05 2018, @08:53PM (#618508) Journal

      Fine by me. That fucking monospace font made reading his posts an utter chore, like shoveling digital shit. I hope whoever compromised his account also somehow made him less of a smug, solipsistic "libertarian" asshole.

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  • Re:No, that makes his tweet a lie (Score: 1) by Arik on Friday January 05 2018, @09:56PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday January 05 2018, @09:56PM (#618532) Journal

    No, I most certainly did not.

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