Airline Crashes Killed 380 in 1996
Crashes involving U.S. air carriers claimed 380 lives last year, the most since 1985. All but 40 of the deaths occurred in two crashes--the explosion of TWA Flight 800 in July off Long Island, N.Y., killing all 230 aboard, and the plunge of a ValuJet DC-9 into the Florida Everglades in May that took 110 lives. The 1996 toll amounted to one passenger death per 1.8 million who flew, the National Transportation Safety Board reported in Washington. That was up from one death in 3.7 million passengers in 1995 but below the one death in 1.4 million in 1982.
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