Asia’s century. From today’s Wall Street Journal.
“Over the past five years, the number of passengers carried annually in the Asia-Pacific region has jumped by two-thirds to more than one billion, surpassing Europe and North America and accounting for 33% of the global total in 2013.”
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Could be a factor why we are hearing about so many air fatalities in that part of the world. The more airplanes in the sky the more likely an increase in such disasters.