Poll: Most Americans say flying is safe, particularly those who do it often (1 Viewer)

[Politics - CBSNews.com]

A majority of Americans believe flying is a mostly safe mode of transportation and rate the overall safety record of commercial airline travel positively.

America's more frequent flyers are especially likely to call flying safe.

People who say they never fly in a typical year — about half the public — are comparatively less likely to feel it is safe.

Overall, seven in 10 Americans feel flying is very or somewhat safe. Bigger majorities feel this way about trains, buses and driving, boosted in part by the views of "never" flyers who rate these...

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