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By anders pearson 14 Sep 2001

lani mentioned something interesting to me on the phone the other night. she said that her mother had learned during her airline training about terrorism that terrorists tended to (consciously or unconsciously) go after airlines whose names included the name of the country they were targeting. eg, American Airlines or United would be more likely targets than Delta or Northwestern. this makes a certain kind of sense. however, i haven’t been able to find any comprehensive statistics about terrorist attacks as broken down by airline online to verify it for myself.

<p>so far, i&#8217;ve only found this <a href="http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/1999index.html">1999 report on global terrorism</a> and this <a href="http://www.pyramid.ch/airsafety_fatalairl.htm">collection of statistics on air safety</a> which breaks things down per airline but includes accidental crashes with bombings and doesn&#8217;t include hijackings.</p>

<p>if anyone knows where i can find some good data, i would appreciate a link.</p>