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Why Ships Keep Crashing
- gregoriol 6y agoThe major differences seems to be the number of lives involved and the distance to average Joe's life: planes carry quite a lot of people compared to transport ships, and the average news reader takes a plane from time to time but never sets foot on such ships. I believe planes should be better compared to cruise ships in that matter, and it seems that not a lot of cruise ships have major incidents.
- m-p-3 6y agoAlso, a system failure on an airplane has a much higher risk of a catastrophic event compared to a ship. If an airplane lose both of it's engine, it's gonna glide but you're still at risk of crashing if you're far from a viable landing zone. If a ship lose its engine, it's still floating.
- londons_explore 6y agoHow do ships compare per-passenger mile? If we look at only big intercontinental ships, I'd bet they are very safe...