US Airways now safest airline!

I'm sure the good people at QANTAS would have something to say about the claim of safest....

 

Actually, Israel's El Al is the world's safest airline. They don't worry about being politically correct.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2003/nf20030825_5134_db039.htm

Hats off to US Airways, though. Maybe American airlines are starting to wise up.

 

Not like American's get on EL AL with a bomb strapped to their chest either. That might help improve their safety record.

EDIT... I apologize, I may have spoken too soon;

Isaac Yeffet, who served as director of global security at El Al from 1978 to 1984 and is now president of New York-based Yeffet Security Consultants, likes to tell the story of a terrorist plot uncovered in the early 1980s. Islamic terrorists befriended a German man recently released from jail and asked him if he would like to make some money smuggling drugs to Israel. The group flew to Zurich, where they bought him a ticket to Tel Aviv. Upon arrival at the airport, El Al screeners scanned his luggage and found nothing unusual. However, when they asked the man why he bought his ticket in Switzerland rather than his home city in Germany, he didn't have an answer. A hand search followed. Guards didn't find drugs, but they discover nearly 10 pounds of explosives. Knowing enough to ask that key question stopped a terrorist action.