Para aquellos que tienen miedo a volar

Aquí hay razones verdaderas para fundamentar su miedo.

Según este artículo, la NASA llevó a cabo un estudio sobre seguridad aérea y no publicó los resultados pues éstos podrían provocar pánico afectar la confianza del consumidor para con las aerolíneas.

NASA gathered the information under an $8.5 million safety project, through telephone interviews with roughly 24,000 commercial and general aviation pilots over nearly four years. Since ending the interviews at the beginning of 2005 and shutting down the project completely more than one year ago, the space agency has refused to divulge the results publicly.

“Release of the requested data, which are sensitive and safety-related, could materially affect the public confidence in, and the commercial welfare of, the air carriers and general aviation companies whose pilots participated in the survey,”

Among other results, the pilots reported at least twice as many bird strikes, near mid-air collisions and runway incursions as other government monitoring systems show, according to a person familiar with the results who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.

The survey also revealed higher-than-expected numbers of pilots who experienced “in-close approach changes” _ potentially dangerous, last-minute instructions to alter landing plans.