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Checking International Airline's Safety 如何查看国际航班安全 You can check fares, fees and flight schedules for just about any airline in the world with a few keystrokes or a single phone call. But checking the safety of an international airline is a much more complicated task. 如果你想查看世界上任何航空公司的票价、收费以及航班安排，只需点击几下鼠标或者打个电话就行。但是，如果你想知道某个国际航空公司的安全系数，那可要复杂得多。 (1) European and US regulators evaluate aviation safety, and the airline industry itself has a world-wide safety-audit program, but it's difficult for travelers to check airline safety when buying tickets. There's no restaurant-inspector's score posted on the airplane door or government crash-test star rating printed on your ticket. (1)欧洲和美国的监管机构都会评估航空公司的安全性，航空业本身也有一套全球安全审查系统，但是，旅客在购买机票的时候很难了解到航空公司的安全性。机舱门口可没有贴着类似餐馆检验机构评分的东西，旅客的机票上也没有印着政府失事概率测试的星级评级。 That's unfortunate, since interest in airline safety is high. (2) It's been a bad year for aviation fatalities, with more than 700 people killed in 16 crashes around the world so far in 2009. Many involved little-known airlines---some already on watch lists for safety concerns. | 
