NASA mum on plane data that might scare you

NASA is currently witholding data from a federally funded study on airline safety, because it may frighten us (NASA mum on plane data that might scare you). This could (they presume) be damaging to the airline industry. Things are pehhaps worse than I had thought in the US. Unless I'm missing something here, the US government has declared that the profits of the airline industry are more important than your safety, or even your right to know how safe or unsafe it is to fly in the US today. And the solution to an unsafe environment is not to make improvements, but to hide the data.