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Fortune
Jason Ma

An 'aerial version of Moore's Law' has dramatically improved safety, but an aviation expert notes this disturbing trend

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  • By one metric, air-travel safety improves by a factor of two nearly every decade, according to a 2024 study. But this week's crash of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter highlighted a troubling recent trend, according to one aviation expert.

Recent airplane crashes have again raised fears about air travel, though data show it remains one of the safest forms of transportation.

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