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Show Another Airplane Disaster 1 1 The most recent airplane disaster in California was a dreadful thing, truly ; yet there is no reason for letting it , frighten us into supposing that commercial air transporta- ; tion is too risky to be useful. There is always this to remember about aviation ; it is ! . the mishaps that get on the front pages. The thousands on thousands of safe, uneventrui j lights that go on year In and year out are seldom mentioned. But nobody can fail to see the tragedies. Every new form of transportation has to undergo a seres of accidents. The steamboat is accepted now as a per- ; fectly safe conveyance. But less than a century ago Missis- s'ppi river streams were exploding their boilers with appal- ivig frequency, so that a citizen of those days could have ' been pardoned for assuming that the steamship would always be an unsafe means of transportation. |