New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Ray LaHood's Fearmongering About Air Travel

July 8, 2009

We've heard the cliché a million times: You have a higher probability of dying in an accident driving to the airport than you do flying in a plane. One study claims you would have to fly once a day every day for more than 15,000 years to be involved in an accident—about a 1 in 11 million chance. But as David Harsanyi writes, those facts haven't stopped Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood from using needless fear to push for new air travel regulations.

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