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"The ATSB has been instructed and even threatened by the
government to keep aviation safety out of the news and it has done
that very effectively. The [fatality] announcements are always done
before Christmas in the silly season when Parliament is not in
session."
Source: Former Australian Civil Aviation Safety
Authority Dick Smith, on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau's
questioning of figures Smith maintains he pulled from the ATSB
website to support his claim Australia's skies have become more
dangerous now to commercial flyers than in any time since the
1990s. ATSB officials maintain the skies are safer, and have the
figures to back it up. The agency also questioned where Smith got
his numbers, and why he chose to publicize his informati
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