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Lives would also be lost in the ensuing confusion if US were to switch to the metric system.
by mertd 8y ago
Lives would also be lost in the ensuing confusion if US were to switch to the metric system.
- trothamel 8y agoIndeed. It's only due to the skill of the pilots that lives weren't lost during the Gimli Glider incident.
- magduf 8y agoOnly partially. Part of it was pure luck, that no one was on the track at that moment when the plane landed on it. There were people at the track at the time, doing races, but the plane just happened to come down at the right time.