On Dec. 21, the FAA released new requirements for airlines to mitigate flight crew fatigue, which is a factor in many aviation accidents. However, the FAA elected to exempt all-cargo airlines such as UPS, FedEx, and Atlas because they feel like it's okay for a cargo planes to crash more frequently. The FAA attaches a value of $6.2 Million to each human life, and have ruled that the cost to these corporations to include them in the new rules have exceeded $6.2M per life they expect to save. As cold as that sounds, FAA's logic is flawed and a good read of their regulatory impact analysis shows costs have been greatly overstated while benefits have been greatly understated. They assume 1 crash will only kill the crew, ignoring a potential catastrophe a large cargo jet crash can cause.



