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> the same procedures that make the US airlines the safest in the world Citation needed? > Let the downvotes begin. Bracing for impact doesn't invalidate the

> the same procedures that make the US airlines the safest in the world Citation needed? > Let the downvotes begin. Bracing for impact doesn't invalidate the cause of it.

js2 8y ago
> Citation needed You’re probably asking for a citation that the US airlines are safest due to their procedures and not for other reasons. I don’t have a ready citation for that. But as to US airline safety: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-last-7-years-you-were-more-likely-to-be-run-over-by-a-car-than-to-die-in-an-airline-crash/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-la... > Bracing for impact doesn't invalidate the cause of it. Fair, I should have left that out, but I won’t ninja edit it on you now. (And I have no idea why you’re downvoted. I’ve upvoted your comment.)
- mijamo 8y ago
  Your link does not really help prove your point at all. Do you have a real source proving your point?
- tapland 8y ago
  That link does not support your statement. There are countries with the same safety record and with a higher percentage of their airlines ranking higher in safety than US airlines. Lumping the US versus 'the rest of the world' together does not compare single countries against each other. The US is safe for air travel, but that does not show that it is the safest.
  - js2 8y ago
    My link may not be correct but it does say: the U.S. continues to have the lowest accident and fatality rates of any aviation market in the world The primary reason is likely due to training requirements: https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety Those requirements are due to US regulations.
    - tapland 8y ago
      Wouldn't something like this suggest that Europe and North Asia was safer in the period leading up to that forbes article? https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx And that greenspun article from 2009 is just special.

> the same procedures that make the US airlines the safest in the world Citation needed? > Let the downvotes begin. Bracing for impact doesn't invalidate the cause of it.

js2 8y ago

> Citation needed You’re probably asking for a citation that the US airlines are safest due to their procedures and not for other reasons. I don’t have a ready citation for that. But as to US airline safety: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-last-7-years-you-were-more-likely-to-be-run-over-by-a-car-than-to-die-in-an-airline-crash/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2016/12/28/in-the-la... > Bracing for impact doesn't invalidate the cause of it. Fair, I should have left that out, but I won’t ninja edit it on you now. (And I have no idea why you’re downvoted. I’ve upvoted your comment.)

mijamo 8y ago
Your link does not really help prove your point at all. Do you have a real source proving your point?
tapland 8y ago
That link does not support your statement. There are countries with the same safety record and with a higher percentage of their airlines ranking higher in safety than US airlines. Lumping the US versus 'the rest of the world' together does not compare single countries against each other. The US is safe for air travel, but that does not show that it is the safest.
- js2 8y ago
  My link may not be correct but it does say: the U.S. continues to have the lowest accident and fatality rates of any aviation market in the world The primary reason is likely due to training requirements: https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety Those requirements are due to US regulations.
  - tapland 8y ago
    Wouldn't something like this suggest that Europe and North Asia was safer in the period leading up to that forbes article? https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx And that greenspun article from 2009 is just special.