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Flying is safe, but not without risk
It’s one of the burdens of being an island state: a state government spanning eight isles and four county systems that require much business travel across waterways.
We all got a grim reminder of that with Wednesday’s plane crash on Lanai, which killed the pilot and two Maui County staffers, and left three other county workers hospitalized; they had just finished a work meeting.
This comes just two months after the plane carrying state Health Director Loretta Fuddy and others went into waters off Molokai; Fuddy died on that business trip.
The incidents have renewed talk about reducing flights required of government workers. Much business still necessitates in-person meetings, of course but in this 21st century, surely more work or interaction could be done via technology to help ease the burdens of physical travel.