内容摘要：It is one of several companies which already offers robotaxis in the US.

It is one of several companies which already offers robotaxis in the US.

Duffy's intervention came after several serious incidents, including a mid-air collision in Januaryin Washington DC, in which 67 people died.

Footage of a plane flipping over after landing in poor weather in Toronto, Canada, has also been widely shared online, further fuelling alarm.And while polling on the subject is limited, one recent Associated Press survey suggested these startling images of accidents havein flying.

But BBC Verify has analysed data in the US and worldwide and found that over the past two decades there has been a general downward trend in air accidents.For the US, figures on air accidents have been compiled by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) up to the end of January this year.

This NTSB data shows a general fall in air accidents in the US from 2005 to 2024 despite a significant increase in the overall number of flights over this period. It also shows that the figure for January 2025 (52), was lower than it was in January last year (58) and January 2023 (70).

Data from International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a UN body which monitors global air incidents, shows that the number of worldwide accidents per million plane departures has also seen a clear downward trend between 2005 and 2023.At the back of the chamber, another large metal box contains GitHub's Code Vault.

The software developer has archived hundreds of reels of open source code here, which are the building blocks underpinning computer operating systems, software, websites and apps.Programming languages, AI tools, and every active public repository on its platform, written by its 150 million users, are also stored here.

"It's incredibly important for humanity to secure the future of software, it's become so critical to our day to day lives," Githhub's chief operating officer, Kyle Daigle tells the BBC.His firm has explored a variety of long-term storage solutions, he said, and there are challenges. "Some of our existing mechanisms can be stored for a very long time, but you need technology to read them."