• @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    111 month ago

    How the hell do I know when it becomes a rational fear? We all know Trump’s solution to this is “stop reporting the crashes”

    • AmidFuror
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      51 month ago

      Every crash is getting reported on the news now. Take the number of recent crashes and divide by the number of commercial passenger flights over the same time period. It’s more than 5000 per day.

        • AmidFuror
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          21 month ago

          How many crashes? The midair one was the first in 20 years, right? So one more of those. And like a couple more on runways since then. So let’s assume it was zero before and 3 after, in a period of about 3 weeks.

          We’re going from 0% of flights in an arbitrary Biden period to 3 / (5000 x 21) = 0.003%.

          Like I said, it’s gotten more dangerous, but it’s not (yet) a reason to avoid air travel.

          I don’t get the hostility here.