Irony of air travel piece only hit me at 30,000 feet

The irony of reading John Burn-Murdoch’s Data Points column “Is air travel becoming more dangerous?” (FT Weekend, February 22) was not lost on me at 30,000ft last week on board my international flight.

Like most business travellers bound to a seasonal intercontinental routine at weekends, the dilemma we face is you can’t exactly get out and walk!

Thanks for a good read on the often precariously malleable framing of data points, on this subject and on others.

Melvin Kaabwe
Book Metadata Project Lead
Puku Children’s Literature Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa