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42. H.R. 15875 (89th Cong.; 2d Sess.).

43. Harris Report, at 20.

44. Peterson, at 59.

45. See accompanying notes, 7, 11-20, supra, and Appendices I, II and III.

46. The Harris Report, at p. 25, found:
    "2.01. There is no evidence before the subcommittee of any permanent physical injury to persons or extensive physical damage to property as a direct result of noise created by civil transport aircraft."

47. From 1950 to 1963, inclusive, the number of non-occupant fatalities in the United States resulting from accidents of transportation media were approximately as follows:

Automobiles (including taxis)........121,853
Buses................................  4,908
Railroad passenger trains............ 12,830
Air carrier aircraft (excluding propeller accidents involving nonmoving aircraft)........     38

Eleven of the 38 deaths were in the two Elizabeth, N.J. crashes on January 22 and February 11, 1952. National Aircraft Noise Abatement Council News Letter [hereinafter cited as "NANAC News Letter"] July 1, 1964.

In 1962, FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby testified:
"I think that many of the citizens whom you gentlemen represent are not just irritated by the noise. They are anxious about being hit. For example, I believe it is very poorly understood that the jet powerplant is now on the average providing [sic] to be a more reliable, that is, less failures, less fatalities, in proportion to its use than the propeller powerplant." Harry Committee Hearings, p. 506.

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