Airline Safety Crisis: Close Calls and Covid Disruptions.

Recent incidents involving air travel have raised concerns about aviation safety, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to review the industry's labor force turnover as a potential safety risk. While it is difficult to determine whether alarming incidents are happening more often or if the public is just more aware of them due to social media and flight-tracking sites, some data suggests an upward trend. Despite this, aviation experts stress that flying in the United States, particularly on commercial airlines, is still extraordinarily safe. However, experts caution that the United States should not take that safety for granted and warn of a system that is strained after shrinking almost instantly due to the pandemic and then quickly ramping back up.