Re: Pena Energy Secretary-nominee

[Les Fraley <les@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Alden Tschaeche wrote:

> Jim Hardeman wrote:
> 
> > Energy Secretary-nominee Pena's "official biography" from
>  He is responsible for bringing airline consumers the same
> > level of safety for all flights -- from jumbo jets to a 10-seater,
> 1996 was the deadliest year in a decade or more for air travel!  More
> than 1000 people died in aircraft.  Somehow, no one mentioned that in
> Pena's cv.  Al Tschaeche xat@inel.gov
> 
Over 600 of those, however, were in private aircraft, not commercial.  
This is consistently the case - year after year.
Les Fraley, private pilot
Colorado State University
les@lamar.colostate.edu