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Donald Trump is the reason no one died on a passenger jet in 2017, he suggests

Donald Trump is the reason no one died on a passenger jet in 2017, he suggests
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Donald Trump: businessman, president, God. AND YOU SHALL FEAR HIS WRATH.

As well as breathing yuge life into the economy and (apparently) being the man responsible for all your Christmas bonus, he is also the self-proclaimed reason why there were no plane death last year.

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The president cited a global study showing there were no reported deaths on commercial passenger jets in 2017 when he gave himself a pat on the back.

He tweeted: ‘ Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!’

Thank the Lord for Trump and his ability to control the fate of airline passenger. We are blessed.

Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018

Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 declared 2017 ‘the safest year for aviation ever’.

To70 estimated that the fatal accident rate for large commercial passenger flights is 0.06 per million flights, or one fatal accident for every 16 million flights.

The Aviation Safety Network also reported there were no commercial passenger jet deaths in 2017, but ten fatal airliner accidents resulting in 44 fatalities onboard and 35 persons on the ground, including cargo planes and commercial passenger turbo prop aircraft.

That figure includes 12 people killed on December 31 when a Nature Air Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff into a mountainous area off the beach town of Punta Islita, Costa Rica.

In comparison, there were 16 accidents and 303 deaths in 2016 among airliners.

The deadliest incident last year occurred in January when a Turkish cargo jet smashed into a village in Kyrgyzstan as it tried to land at a nearby airport in dense fog, killing 35 on the ground and all four onboard.

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The Aviation Safety Network said 2017 was ‘the safest year ever, both by the number of fatal accidents as well as in terms of fatalities’.

Over the last two decades aviation deaths around the world have been steadily falling. As recently as 2005, there were 1,015 deaths aboard commercial passenger flights worldwide, the Aviation Safety Network said.

The United States last recorded a fatal airline passenger jet crash in February 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed short of the runway in Clarence Center, New York, killing 49 onboard and one person on the ground.

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