Now there is roughly one major accident per 1 million
             flights with increased air traffic by 2015 there would be one
             fatal crash a week. (CNN.com) So in the near future if
             stricter regulations are not placed on the people building,
             inspecting and flying these planes. Future airplane
             crashes will be responsible for killing hundreds of people a
             week. Air safety is also important because it effects
             America's economy. American airlines alone logged 9.5 million
             scheduled flights in 1997and had 625 passengers. (Gaffney
             There are four areas where air safety needs to be
             improved. The most important area is human error which has
             caused over 70 percent of airline accidents since 1950. Other
             important areas of air safety is finding better and more
             accurate ways of predicting the weather. Security needs to be
             increased in the ways of detecting weapons and explosives.
             The final area of air safety that needs to be improved is the
             Since 1950 over 70 percent of airline accidents have
             been caused by Human error. The reason is simple while all
             other aspects of air travel have been improved, human
             behavior still has its age-old imperfections. Which is why
             the Gore Commission spot lighted the need for more work on
             the human side of aviation safety research. "Government and
             industry aviation research should emphasize human factors and
             training." The Gore Commission said to Bill Clinton in its
             Human error was responsible for the Deaths of 583 people
             on March 27 which was the worst commercial air disasters in
             history. The disaster happened when KLM and Pan Am pilots did
             not see each others airplanes, because of thick fog, and
             collided. (Two 747 jumbo jets collide at Tenerife)
             Most fatal accidents are caused when perfectly working
             aircraft are flown in to the ground which is called
             controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT). (Gaffney 45) This ...