Trump Takes Credit for Air Safety System Run by Obama Holdover

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg News




By Ryan Beene and Alan Levin
January 2, 2018, 11:51 AM EST

President Donald Trump is taking credit for the safety of the U.S. aviation system even though it is being run by a holdover from the previous administration and has avoided any commercial passenger fatalities for several years before he took office.

Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation," Trump said in a tweet Tuesday morning. "Good news -- it was just reported that there were zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record."

If by "commercial aviation" he means scheduled passenger airline flights, the record actually stretches back to July, 2013, when an Asiana Airlines plane struck a seawall as it was about to land in San Francisco, killing three people. The last death on a U.S.-registered airline was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

Commercial aviation generally refers to paying customers on planes of all sorts. The National Transportation Safety Board reported at least 13 deaths last year in seven crashes involving commercial charter flights in the U.S.



Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/trump-takes-credit-for-air-safety-system-run-by-obama-holdover

[riversedge]

1. Trumps sick Ego needed a self boost again!

[NewJeffCT]

2. LOL - the head of the FAA

is Michael Huerta, a holdover appointed by Obama to a 5 year term in 2013. #ThanksObama

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's worse than that - it's the whole world's safety record he's claiming credit for

Trump thinks he runs the world - and he has acolytes who will believe him when he says it.

[bluevoter4life]

4. This is a huge slap in the face

For people like me and the thousands of other aviation safety professionals who work dilligently 24 hours a day to ensure the traveling public flies in the safest airspace system in the world. Fuck you Trump. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the hatred I have for this pathetic excuse for a human being.

[Bengus81]

5. Airline regulations were in place before the 1931 crash carrying Knute Rockne....

After that crash which killed everyone (wooden wing broke off) the Government really went into high gear on airlines and the regulations to make them safe. Yeah....you had a lot to do with airline regulations in 1931 eh...Trump??