In an atypical move, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Thursday publicly criticized The New York Times Magazine for an article that it said “sensationalizes and politicizes tragedies.”
In the article, entitled “Is Air Travel Getting Less Safe?” author James Fallows wrote that Americans should be alarmed enough about aviation safety to “insist that today’s leaders recognize the miracle of air safety in all its robustness and all its fragility.”
