The Benefits of 9/11 - No More Major U.S airline crashes

 Sometimes one event leads to unexpected consequences and for 9/11 it was the end of major U.S. airline crashes*.  With the crash of American Airlines flight 587 in November of 2001 in New York there has been only one airline crash with 50 or more fatalities in the last 22 years** 

Prior to 9/11 these were the major airline crashes

 

2000 - Alaskan Airlines in the Pacific Ocean - 88 Deaths

1999 - Egypt airlines just off of Nantucket - 217 Deaths

1997 -Korean Air Flight near Gaum - 229 Deaths 

1996 - July TWA Flight 800  just off the coast of New York - 230 Deaths

1996 -  May - Value Jet the Florida Everglades - 110 Deaths

1994 - October - American Eagle flight Indiana - 68 Deaths

1994 - September -USA Flight 427 Pittsburgh - 132 Deaths

1990 - Aviance Flight New York - 73 Deaths

1989 - UA Flight Iowa - 112 Deaths

1987 - Northwest Flight Detroit - 156 Death

1986 - AeroMexico Flight  California - 82 Deaths

1985 -  August  Delta Airlines Irving TX -135 Deaths

1985  - January Galaxy Airlines - Reno - 70 Deaths

1982 - July - Pan Am Flight Louisiana - 153 Deaths

1982 - January - Air Florida Potamic River DC - 78 Deaths

5/25/79 - America Airlines Chicago (the famous photo of the plane inverted) - 273 Deaths

1978 - PSA Flight - San Diego - 144 Deaths 

In the 22 years since 9/11 there have been 2 major airline crashes with 50 or more fatalities (Colgan Air Buffalo - 50 Deaths). In the 22 years prior to 9/11 there were 17 major airline crashes in the U.S. Unexpected Consequences. 

*Major airline crashes is defined by 50 or more fatalities from the crash.

**Not that 50 is an arbitrary number but there was a plane crash in Lexington KY in 2006 where 49 people lost their lives.