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Airline Crashes



When: 2001

Deaths: 483

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This is the total number of people killed in airline crashes in the United States during 2001 (the year of 9/11, an unusually bad year). This statistic from from the US Nation Transportation Safety Control Board(NTSB).

See: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Paxfatal.htm

9/11
81 - One of the BOEING 767s that hit the World Trade Towers
56 - One of the BOEING 767s that hit the World Trade Towers
58 - The BOEING 757 that hit the Pentagon
37 - The BOEING 757 that crashed in Pennsylvania
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232 total 9/11 deaths from passengers in airplanes

Plus, an unreleated crash later in November

251 people on an AIRBUS in BELLE HARBOR, NY.

The yearly average for airline deaths is more like 120 people per year.




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  10-Mar-2006 9:43am created by bill
  10-Mar-2006 9:47am last update by bill


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