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Yeah, that's where I am too. Even granting that this is probably the most dangerous airliner design in decades (and, yeah, it probably is), it still remains ex
by ajross 3y ago
Yeah, that's where I am too. Even granting that this is probably the most dangerous airliner design in decades (and, yeah, it probably is), it still remains extremely safe in an absolute sense. If like me you're middle-aged, your chance of dying from any cause on any given day is getting up to around one in a hundred thousand or thereabouts, which is much higher the fraction of fatal crashes in the total list of MAX flights.
- bastardoperator 3y agoApprox. 3700 fatalities a day globally while driving, and no one bats in an eye when it comes to getting in a car.
- bookofjoe 3y ago45k last year in the U.S. = 123/day
- jemmyw 3y ago1.19 million last year globally = 3260/day
- bastardoperator 3y agoCDC says 1.35 million per year, this also includes pedestrian and cyclist deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index.html#:~:text=Each%20year%2C%201.35%20million%20people,on%20roadways%20around%20the%20world.&text=Every%20day%2C%20almost%203%2C700%20people,pedestrians%2C%20motorcyclists%2C%20or%20cyclists https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index....
- MomoXenosaga 3y agoPlanes fell out of the sky all the time in the 1930s-60s and it didn't deter the rich, famous and powerful. Because if you wanted to travel from Amsterdam to Batavia by ship it would take weeks...