Just to point out, but the last time we had a scandal about a plane that kills people, it’s safety record was about the same as riding a motorcycle in city transit (AKA, one of the most dangerous things people actually do).
Just because the average is very low, it doesn’t mean whatever problem people are pointing isn’t an issue.
Flying? In this economy?
Was on a plane for the first time a couple years ago for my honeymoon.
Likely going to be for the last time, given every time I get a raise, the price of everything fucking triples.
Odds don’t mean shit when you win the die in a fireball lottery. Odds are zero if you don’t play.
Says the one who hasn’t yet had an aeroplane crash into their house
Just choose to not get born. Can’t die if you don’t exist taps temple.
There is also the comic version from Alarmingly Bad.
wouldn’t that achieve the opposite?
edit: ah, that’s the joke. woosh.
No. We can change it to waaaaay way way lower chances.
The handguns are free with purchase of a flight ticket
Would there be more or less mass shootings if literally every adult had a gun
100% certain it would be more. And I wager it would actually, be more than linear. Double the number if people with guns and you get more than double the number of mass shootings.
There would be more homicides in general and waaaaay more suicide.
Most people would probably do more harm than good trying to stop a mass shooting with their own gun.
Right. People with a gun in the house are more likely to be injured or killed by a gun, not less.
Not to mention, most people aren’t going to train enough to be effective. Most people don’t respect deadly objects in their possession enough to learn how to use them safely and effectively. That’s made obvious any time you watch people drive.
More until we reach convergence or critical mass and become singularity shooting.
Yeehar bullets all the way down
FAA funding cuts: hold my beer. 🍺
The way that airline safety is positioned has always annoyed me. Back in the day they used to say, “Your odds of dying in a car crash are greater than dying in a plane crash.” That statement never sat right with me because while the aggregate number of casualties is greater for car crashes than airline crashes, it doesn’t address the survivability for the passengers of a single incident.
I forget the statistics, but depending on the type of car crash, passenger seat position mattered in a car, with higher mortality rates for the driver’s side vs passenger side, and higher mortality for front seat vs back seat.
Now what about a single airplane crash? It doesn’t matter if you are seated in first class, business class, economy, the flight deck, or in the cargo hold. Survivability rates for the entire plane are low for the entire plane in the event of a crash.
Yes, planes have less incidents compared to cars, but if a plane has a problem, it’s going to be a big problem for everyone on board.
/rant
Every time you enter a car there is a higher chance of “will I die during this trip” than when you enter a plane.
Yes the “chance to survive a plane crash” is lower than the “chance to survive a car crash” but the chance to ever be in a plane crash is incredibly low, even when you factor in the number of cars vs number of planes etc.
Yeah you get it, exactly. The way they used to describe airplane safety back in the 90s seemed based on “chance to be in a plane crash,” and while those numbers were pretty reassuring, the numbers for “chance to survive a plane crash” were not.
I don’t think you understand statistics…
Also, you’re more likely to survive in the back of the plane versus the front.
In USA this is not much comfort, shootings every hour and shit
