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That's hardly a unique thing about US airline safety. You're building one heck of a fragile claim there to superiority, a number of other countries can make si
by Twirrim 8y ago
That's hardly a unique thing about US airline safety. You're building one heck of a fragile claim there to superiority, a number of other countries can make similar claims, including countries that have similar or better safety records.
Just out of a quick wiki trawl over the last ten years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_1354 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_1354 UPS airline plane crashed in 2013, killing all onboard.
In the same year, a commercial flight by Rediske Air crashed in Alaska, all 10 people on-board died.
While not technically a crash, there was a fatality involving US airline just last year, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380, making the US airline safety record worse than a good number of countries.
- mikeash 8y agoAre you really going to use a UPS crash as an argument here? You actually raise some good points but I can’t get past that one.
- isostatic 8y ago"UPS Airlines Flight 1354 was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama" U.S. Airline U.S. origin U.S. destination European aircraft (A320) Seems that the cause was problems with American trained pilots, so it's a strong refutation to the assertion "Maybe from the fact that the last fatality in a US airline crash was over ten years ago? "
- mikeash 8y agoDespite the name, UPS Airlines is a cargo company, not an airline. If you want to quibble over semantics, just pretend I specified “passenger airline” since that’s what I was talking about and that’s the relevant category.
- Twirrim 8y agoCargo companies come under the same regulations. You can't ignore them just because it's detrimental to your narrative.
- mikeash 8y agoThe regulations are considerably less strict for cargo flights, and they’re notorious for being significantly more dangerous. I’m ignoring them because cargo safety is irrelevant, not because it’s inconvenient.