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Jet Blue also hasn't killed anyone - but they haven't flown
nearly as many trips as SWA.


If you mean to say that SWA is not responsible for any fatalities in
it's flight operations, you must be avoiding the death of a child in a
car run over by a SWA 737 at MDW, on 12/8/05:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X01964&key=1

Running off of runways is not something with which SWA is unfamiliar.
The rarity of fatalities is a matter of luck:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...12X20606&key=1

A cavalier attitude toward ground operations is indicated from a reading
of the many taxi accidents in which SWA crews are involved. Numerous
ground collisions, turbulence encounters, runway misidentifications and
other accidents and incidents in the NTSB Database serve to paint a
picture of an airline whose business model does not include adequate
respect for the safety of their passengers or cabin crews. Training and
maintenance have been throughout the company's history sources of
operational problems.

No airline is perfect, of course, but I avoid using SWA. Blaming the FAA
for their own inability to keep track of the maintenance history of
their aircraft is unacceptable. The inconsistency of FAR interpretation
and application is another problem, but that doesn't let SWA off the hook.



Jack