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The recent spate of airline safety incidents and increase in aviation close calls serve as a reminder for travellers not to take safety for granted.

The recent spate of airline safety incidents are a reminder to travellers not to take safety for granted, say experts.

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SINGAPORE – From the

Japan Airlines (JAL) runway collision

that killed five people to the door plug that blew out of a Boeing aircraft

on an Alaska Airlines flight,

it has not been a good start to 2024 in terms of airline safety.

And in 2023, close calls involving commercial airlines happened multiple times a week, according to a New York Times analysis of internal Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, federal reports and interviews. These incidents included planes in the United States narrowly avoiding collisions, sometimes by seconds.

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