Playbill
June, 1980
Chicken Little was almost right. It's not the sky that's falling, it's airplanes that are falling out of the sky. Consulting Editor (and licensed pilot) Laurence Gonzales tried to warn us back in July of 1975 that airline safety was a contradiction in terms when he wrote the Playboy article You Gotta Believe. Then, in May of last year, several of our Playboy colleagues were killed in the infamous crash of flight 191 at Chicago's O'Hare airport. That tragedy prompted Gonzales to take a deeper loo...