Show air transport flying shows enviable record chicago it if a passenger were to fly miles annually in planes flown on regular schedules of airmail air mail passenger lines he might suffer a crack up in his forty sixth year and might be killed in the year it if the same men however went the same distance in random flights such as sightseeing sight seeing joy hopping etc he be could anticipate an accident every five years or prepare for death in the thirty fifth year this means that there were only five fatal accidents in more than miles of scheduled pir clr trans port flying during the first six months of 1031 and that the dependability and safety of air transport Is being substantially bettered another evidence of the increased dependability of air transport Is that on tile the longest mall mail passenger line in the world with both day and night service between new york and san francisco 2700 miles that company had a record ot oft completing 09 per cent of all the mileage scheduled for it last month this Is especially noteworthy because the company flew mor more than a million miles allies in one month w with ith tri trl motored transports A few years ago such a record was one to be hoped for |