Although Air Canada Flight 759 was far too close for comfort and should be classified as a failure of the system, even if it did not result in an accident.

It's a crazy accomplishment really, unimaginable how safe US commercial airplanes have been in the last two decades

So sad that streak finally ended

As someone working in aviation safety, this is heartbreaking and awful to watch. The efforts of CAST and ASIAS in reducing aviation safety accidents have been very successful, but of course we still have so much to do.

There have been incidents that were just saved by luck (eg losing door in flight). And Too many near misses.

Better a near miss than a catastrophic incident.

And in such an avoidable way, too.

Not a US airliner, but in the US: Asiana Airlines Flight 214

There was a fatality on a Southwest flight in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

> fatal crash

But yes, you're right to point that out.

I posted my comment and thought, okay, now for a nerdfight about what 'crash' means. And here we are.

This might have been a better approach: It wasn't a crash, but there was a fatality on a Southwest flight in 2018.

You are the one instigating the nerdfight