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Hush? It's an airplane. Shouldn't the same models be grounded? Of course, it didn't help if Boeing blamed the pilots (if it was true?). This would imply to oth
by Joakal 8y ago
Hush? It's an airplane. Shouldn't the same models be grounded?
Of course, it didn't help if Boeing blamed the pilots (if it was true?). This would imply to other pilots that everything is ok with the planes.
- londons_explore 8y agoEven a plane with a bunch of faults is much safer than a typical journey by car. Ground a few planes, and the extra car journeys caused by people choosing to drive due to disruption to their travel plans easily causes more deaths. Humans are particularly bad at handling unlikely events (such as the risk of a plane crash), and in those cases, their 'gut reaction' frequently is the wrong one.
- jacquesm 8y agoIf I had the choice between a 'typical journey by car' vs a 'plane with a bunch of faults' I'd definitely prefer the typical journey by car. A 'plane with a bunch of faults' could range from a non-issue to an imminent crash, a typical journey by car tends to do what it is supposed to do, it is the 'exceptional journeys by car' that are the problematic ones. Air travel is safer statistically because most planes do not have 'a bunch of faults', when you start out with faulty planes the stats will rapidly turn against you.
- notfromhere 8y agoCars have a lot of issues, but those issues are more forgiving than a similar issue in a plane. If my cars engine has issues, I can pull over. If a plane's engine has issues, there's a good chance its going to kill everyone on board