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Box 6-B Drones Pose Aviation Threat

Estimates suggest that people in the United States now own over one million unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly known as drones, with the number growing each year. Recreational and other unregulated use of drones presents safety risks to manned aircraft, their crews, airline passengers...

Figure 6-5 Fatalities Rate by Age and Sex: 2000 and 2015

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SOURCES: Fatality Data: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, available at ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov as of March 2016....

Figure 6-4 Fatalities Number by Age and Sex: 2000 and 2015

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, available at ftp. nhtsa.dot.gov as of March 2016.

Box 6-A Fatality Definition by Mode

 

Mode (Source) Definition Citation Air Fatal injury means any injury which results in death within 30 days of the accident. 49 CFR 830.2 Hazardous material Fatalities must be...

Figure 5-24 U.S. Trade of Transportation Services: 2015

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NOTE: Port services are the expenses that transportation companies incur in foreign ports (i.e., goods and services procured by foreign carriers in U.S. ports and by U.S. carriers in foreign ports), excluding purchases of...