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Air Safety Now there is roughly one major accident per 1 million flights with increased air traffic by 2015 there would be one fatal crash a week. (CNN.com) So in the near future if stricter regulations are not placed on the people building, inspecting and flying these planes. Future airplane crashes will be responsible for killing hundreds of people a week. Air safety is also important because it effects America’s economy. American airlines alone logged 9.5 million scheduled flights in 1997and had 625 passengers. (Gaffney 107-108) There are four areas where air safety needs to be improved. The most important area is human error which has caused over 70 percent of airline accidents since 1950. Other important areas of air safety is finding better and more accurate ways of predicting the weather. Security needs to be increased in the ways of detecting weapons and explosives. The final area of air safety that needs to be improved is the detection of mechanical failure. Since 1950 over 70 percent of airline accidents have been caused by Human error. The reason is simple while all other aspects of air travel have been improved, human beha